"I wasn't looking for infinite possibilities. I was just looking to survive," says C. William Guy, Chairman and Chief Exective of Cornerstone International Group in Sherman Oaks, California (www.cornerstone-group.com). Cornerstone is one of the most successful retained executive search organizations in the world. But the story of Guy's success began 33 years ago when he hit rock bottom and latched onto a higher concept of employment. Since then, thousands worldwide have benefited.
We were out of money, we had no food, no cars, no jobs, and a baby coming. It was back in the 1970s, and I'd been looking for work in Los Angeles for six months, going to employment agencies, networking, telephoning, filling out applications. But nothing was happening. When my car conked out, it was the last straw. I couldn't even get to interviews. Yes, we'd been praying, but the situation wasn't getting better.
Then two concepts turned everything around. The first was a line from Science and Health: "Self-love is more opaque than a solid body." Science and Health, p. 242. It's hard to explain, but I suddenly realized that I'd been loving myself more than I'd been loving God. I'd been trying to fix the situation, praying for God to help. But when Moses, in the Bible, was trapped between the Egyptian army and the Red Sea, he didn't have his people build two walls across it and then suck the water out—asking God for help on how to do it. He let God take control. And God had a different game plan. He parted the waters so the Israelites could walk across. So I got "me" out of the way and just turned my career and family's welfare over to God, completely.
