Today I want to share with you some stories of successful people who, before achieving success in their lives, failed miserably and still managed to get to where they are.
Ready to start a motivational journey into the past?
Great me too…
Before going into the stories I want to ask a question and get you to reflect with me on the answer.
Why, if everyone wants prosperity and wealth, can't they achieve it? Not even one out of a hundred people succeeds, they all work hard to make ends meet and pay their bills. Many people are frustrated and tired of leading a life where they struggle to survive rather than live.
I hope that with these stories you can motivate yourself and take action to create abundant wealth in your life. No excuses, no excuses, ok?
Pay attention to what is coming.
Many of the people who currently have great wealth, were poor, or have been ruined. That means enormous hope for the poor to obtain wealth. Let's forget the mentality that those who are born poor will die poor. No one is to blame for being born poor but for dying poor.
Abraham Lincoln
This man experienced multiple failures, one after another before reaching glory. At 35 he was broke. In 1833, when he recovered from a nervous breakdown, he attempted to be elected to the House of Representatives and lost several times. Abraham Lincoln was not giving up and in 1848 he lost his second nomination to Congress. Then he lost the Senate in 1854. In the following two years he lost the nomination for Vice-Presidency and failed again in the Senate in 1858.
Wow! With so many defeats one would suppose that his state of mind has gone to the core of the earth and has not returned. But oh surprise! He did not give up and in 1860 he was elected President of the United States. He left a great career as one of the greatest presidents of the United States of America.
Isn't this a great example that those who stop never win and the winners never stop?
If you think something is worth it, fight with all your might, no matter how many times you fall, get up and continue. The unsuccessful are the ones who no longer try. Abraham Lincoln suffered several setbacks but was never a failure because he never gave up on defeat.
Walt disney
Another motivating story was that of Walt Disney, Mickey Mouse's father went bankrupt several times before building the Disney empire.
Disney and his wife went through very tough times where they couldn't pay the rent and sometimes went so far as to resort to dog food in order to survive. (Thousands of people go through similar situations, for that reason we should not despise food or put buts when they offer it to us).
The now businessman, made the decision to stake his last card and with his last dollars he bought a train ticket to Hollywood. In 1926, he created the Oswald rabbit for the Universal Studios company, and once Disney wanted to improve the terms of his contract, he discovered that the company had secretly patented the animated character.
That is playing dirty and also to top it off, when he drew Mickey Mouse they told him he would not be successful because it would scare women (nonsense), the production of Pinocchio was stopped halfway and Disney had to rewrite the full story.
The famous films like Bambi, did not have a good acceptance at the time of release and it took the businessman 16 years to get the rights to Mary Poppins from Pamela Travers.
Disney risked all its money to the first animated feature film, Snow White, where it was the first to use the Technicolor. Everyone predicted failure, but it was released in 1938 by RKO and was the most successful film at the box office that year. It had an income of 8 million dollars that today would be equivalent to about 98 million in its premiere.
Joanne Rowling
The author of Harry Potter had a dramatic past like that of her own works. She was an unsuccessful journalist, a single, truncated mother until she wrote and published her first book in 1997. From that moment on, her financial situation was no longer the same. Rowling has a bank account of approximately $ 1 billion.
Oprah Winfrey
The woman who moves American hearts. The driver spent a difficult childhood, marked by extreme poverty and suffering from sexual abuse. That with the passage of time she managed to found an empire of more than $ 2.4 billion dollars. She has a production company, Harpo Entertainment Group, is also a co-founder of Oxygen Media, a book writer, runs her own website and has her own cable television channel OWN.
It is common for people to not seek prosperity when they are satisfied with their lives, need inspiration, or are desperate before making changes to it. Many change because they are forced to do so, they begin to question their destinies, but many ask the wrong questions, The questions that start in why? They do not respond to solutions. The brain will always try to answer the questions that are put to it and many times it gives the false answer.
Why does this happen to me? Why am I having this problem? Why did this life touch me?
Those types of questions will get you nowhere, great people ask other questions using the "how" and "what".
How can I improve my financial situation? What do I need to do to create wealth and prosperity?
To find the correct answer you must first ask yourself the right question.
Do not wait to be in an economic emergency situation, make the necessary changes from TODAY.
Always wishing you the best…
