What I think about this!

Long, long ago, a man loved singing so much that he kept singing everywhere he goes. Kidding aside, this man really loved to sing. He recorded his songs for his mother and the songs just stayed with his mother.

Not long after, he auditioned for a local quartet, unfortunately he failed and just went home.

"What happened? How did it go son?" asked the father.

"I did not make it. They told me I could not sing." replied the son.

He was basically turned down because his vocals did not bring harmony to the ear of others, basically his singing was so different.

He became a truck driver just so money could be placed in his pocket but he still have singing in his mind. A music company just opened and was looking for a vocalist. This young man did not waste any time and headed straight to the company to audition.

Unfortunately after the audition, he was turned down immediately. He was told to GO BACK BEING A TRUCK DRIVER and he was also given a painful advise:

"Just stick to driving son because you are not going to make it as a singer."

He was under fire, no one at that time liked how he sing. He was rejected, he was ridiculed, turned down, people had a lot of bad things to say about him.

But he did not give up, he kept on doing what he loved and thought right, he just kept on singing and singing and singing until the day came. Someone actually took him as the lead vocalist. And one day, he became who the world knew, ELVIS PRESLEY.

He just ignored all the noise that people was saying against him and he became a huge success.



Are you under fire right now? Are there people who hates you and tells bad things about you because you are doing things that you need to reach your dreams?

IGNORE THE NOISE! If you want to be successful, you don't have to listen to every single person just to please them, specially if that person themselves have not reached success.

Listen to your mentors instead, to people who already reached success and has paid the price. Listen to the people who are already way ahead of you.

Don't try to please everyone because we can't. Just like Elvis Presley, if he had listened to the advise and just went back to truck driving, he would not have reached this much success, even after death.

Keep doing the right thing. You will be successful!



God bless you!

Elvis Presley Picture found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:PresleyPromo1954PhotoOnly.jpg
2nd picture found on http://newmediaandmarketing.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/social-media-noise.jpeg

But I did not stop because I know something great will happen soon and I believe good things happen to those who wait and do the hard work. 

1st light bulb (Actual photo)

As he was trying to invent the light bulb, he had experienced a lot of failed experiments. On some resources, after 1000 experiments, the light bulb was STILL not invented. A reporter came to Edison and asked, "How does it feel to fail 1000 times?" Edison replied "We have not failed, we just found out 1000 things that would not work.".

Even after failing, Edison moved on and still tried to create the light bulb. He just kept going and going until the light bulb was created.

Imagine if Edison stopped at experiment #999, would we ever have the light bulb? We might be using candles now if Edison had stopped!

Have you ever failed and found it hard to move on? Well keep on moving forward. Once you fail, it will hurt and the memory of it will linger on but amid having those, just keep moving forward. How to do it? Just do it! Once you fail, feel the pain, cry, sulk, get angry but after that, leave it all behind and just keep moving forward.

Got a break up? Cry, feel the pain and after that, if nothing goes right, just keep moving forward. Financial downturn? Feel the pain, get angry, worry a little, after that, move forward and do what you must to solve the issue.

After all, we are human beings and we feel. Right after feeling, we must act. Do not get stuck on the feeling alone, we must be in motion too!

Do you want to reach your dreams? Drive success? Have the best relationship? Financial freedom? Successful family life? Just keep moving forward and do not give up and as you keep moving forward you will get your reward! Edison had his light bulb and you will get your dreams!

You'll never know that you are that close in reaching your dreams so just keep moving forward!

Just like this picture.

God bless you!

Thomas Edison photo is not mine, it belongs to the United State's Library of Congress.

1st light bulb photo is not mine, belongs to http://www.classstudio.com/scaltagi/img/internship/sightseeing_day2/edison_bulb.jpg; Alkivar

3rd photo not mine, found on http://i.imgur.com/47S0q.jpg

FAILURE! One of the harshest word that I have ever encountered. Not only the word is harsh itself, the feeling is tormenting!

Once upon a time. A man by the name of Abraham Lincoln wanted to run for office. In 1832, Abe ran for State Legislator and lost.

In 1836, he had a nervous breakdown and was bed ridden for 6 months. In 1838, he ran for the speaker of the state legislature and lost.

In 1840, he sought to become elector but lost that. 1843 he ran for congress and lost that too! Some how on 1846 he ran again for congress and won! (Hooray!)

1848, ran for congress for re-election but lost. He instead looked for a job as land officer and got rejected. But he did not stop here, his dreams got bigger and bigger.

In 1854, he ran for senate and guess what? He lost! In 1856, he ran for the 2nd highest position of all, Vice President, the VP and, you guessed it, he lost! He was crumpled in defeat. He only got less than a hundred votes.

In 1858, maybe he decided that he was too ambitious to become VP so he ran again for sen
ate, amazingly he lost again!

Talk about losing streak! I mean for a normal person, having all those defeat, one might say;

"I am not worth it.",

 "I cannot do it. I am a failure. I better go back and just do what I can.".

Abraham Lincoln was not a normal person. After all those failures, he did not give up. He kept on running and running for a position. For us it would have been so embarrassing to keep on running and kept on failing. Abraham Lincoln might have felt the same but it did not stop him from doing what he wants!

In 1860, he ran for office and was elected as the President of the United States of America! Unbelievable! After failing a lot of times he managed to become the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES!

Friend, do you have a dream in your life? Have you ever failed the first time you attempted to reach that? Painful? Worrying? Scary? That's normal! Failing is normal for many of us. In fact, failing is the key to success considering that we learn from our failures.

If Abe Lincoln let failure stop him, America would not see him as president.

You may be experiencing failures in your life now, financial failures, in relationship, in your career, in your family or maybe in your business. DO NOT LET THAT STOP YOU! If you fall, pick yourself up and keep on walking! Learn from those mistakes and failures and you will have your biggest success ever!

I remember this saying from The Feast, "Just like a bow and arrow, the greater the pull, the greater it travels.". The same thing with our life, the greater our SETBACK, the GREATER our COMEBACK!

For Lincoln, his setbacks were extremely set back. Experiencing the same? Then I warn you, be ready for the greatest comeback that you will ever have!

Reach for your dreams and never give up!

God Bless you!