This Video is one of its many kinds that reveal to us in a sentence the journey of some of the experts in industries we have today. It shows us that at one point in time, they really did not have it altogether, that some of them were not even in the line of industry at which they are well known for! It also show that some of these people at one time started from the bottom (bottom is subjective here because their bottom might be someone else's top *No Pun Intended* )
This Video would spark up hope, inspiration, patience and determination in you. It would make you believe that it is not TOO LATE for you! That DREAM/ASPIRATION that seems so impossible, you just have to keep digging through the rock and you would get to the water.
Five things gotten from this Video are:
- It is Ok if you do not know what your dream is yet,
- But never tell yourself age is limiting you,
- Never tell yourself that you have missed it,
- Never tell yourself there are others better than you
- Whatever it is, You can do it.
This Video only reveals the phases through which they passed through but It does not show/tell us how they rose above their situation. Is this because rising is not a single event but accumulation of so many falls?
However, after watching it, I was inspired but I have Questions/Comments. Below are some of them.
-Tina Fey was working at YMCA
Q? How are we sure Tina Fey did not learn some invaluable lesson from YMCA?
-Oprah was fired from her first reporting job.
C? She got into reporting..That must have set the tone for where she is now. I think being fired sometimes is the best thing that can happen. It exposes your weaknesses and reveals your strengths.
-At 24, Stephen King was working as a Janitor and living in a trailer
C : Probably as he cleaned off, he had time to pen down his gruesome stories
-VVG failed as a missionary and decided to go to art school
Q? If he failed as a missionary, why didn't he continue till he succeeded?
-J.K.Rowling was a suicidal single parent,living on welfare
C? I do not know why I believe her kids might have something to do with her inspiration.
-Ang Lee was a stay-at-home dad working odd jobs?
Q? What if his kids were the stem of his inspiration?
-Vera Wang did not get her skating dream nor her editorial dream; she then designed her first dress at 40
Q? What made her stick to dress making? She could have gotten another editorial job at another magazine..How did she know dressmaking was it?
-Morgan Freeman landed his first MAJOR role at 52
Comment: His minor roles prepared him for the MAJOR one.
.....The list goes on and on
When did they decide ENOUGH is ENOUGH?
My lessons from watching the Video include:
-Enjoy the journey as you pass through. Yes, it is sometimes challenging to see the sunny side of things when everything around you is not sunny and to be all sunny every time and fairy about everything could be a double edge sword. So find the balance.
-There is always something to learn from your present phase and it does not always have to be money! If you can't earn then learn.
-You do not have to know what your life purpose is, it is OK.Just keep searching and try out everything that appeals to you. Everything? Yes, everything. No knowledge is a waste. Time is money so choose your everything, wisely. I used to be so picky on my everything and now I wish I had just taken the plunge on some things.
- You are not a FAILURE if you do not know what your life purpose is;for the fact that you are thinking about it,keeps you ahead of the game.
-However, Do not spend the whole of YOUR TIME, waiting for your LIFE PURPOSE; It does not appear when you are waiting for it. I believe that it is more of a revelation appearance than a waiting appearance.
-SERVE OTHERS! There is honor in service!
-ALWAYS,ask your Heavenly Father for guidance and Listen. He created man and He knows the reason why He put breath into you.
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