If you do nothing else today, give yourself a gift, reward yourself with some recognition of what you are, what you’ve done, what you could still do – watch this extraordinary video.
The transcript is here so you can take it away and keep it with you. I refer to this whenever I’m tired, feeling overwhelmed, a little low on self-confidence. It works every time!
Give it a try, you won’t regret it.
Transcript
- 0:01 Before April 1954,
- 0:05 the common belief, the universal belief
- 0:08 because it had been tried again & again & again, and people had failed
- 0:12 the belief was that man was not physically capable
- 0:16 of breaking the 4 minute barrier, that he could not
- 0:20 run a mile in less than 4 minutes.
- 0:25 When something happens to them, they begin to believe that that’s the way it is.
- 0:30 That’s the way it’s always been.
- 0:32 And they can’t see the possibility of it being any different.
- 0:35 (250 yards to go and Bannister takes over)
- 0:38 (watch his giant stride take him to the front)
- 0:40 (as he races the last lung-bursting… )
- 0:42 Roger Bannister came along
- 0:45 and he broke the 4-minute barrier!
- 0:49 Since that time, up to this day
- 0:52 Over 20,000 people have done it…
- 0:55 including high-school kids!
- 0:58 Twenty thousand people! What changed?
- 1:00 Here’s what happened when they got on the track:
- 1:02 They knew it had been done!
- 1:04 And because they knew it had been done,
- 1:06 there was a new belief!
- 1:10 …about this barrier that was “unreachable”.
- 1:14 And those twenty thousand people got in a race believing
- 1:18 knowing in their heart that someone had done it
- 1:20 that it’s possible
- 1:22 that they could do it
- 1:23 if someone can make that dream become a reality,
- 1:26 then you can make YOUR dream become reality
- 1:57 Eyesight and mindsight…
- 2:00 Eyesight is judging on what you see…
- 2:03 …judging according to appearances…
- 2:06 but mindsight is how you interpret what you see.
- 2:10 One guy said, “its not possible, it’s over, I’m finished! I can’t do it. I can’t make it.”
- 2:18 He surrendered!
- 2:19 “I’ve faced rejection again and again, I’m not going anymore! There are no jobs out there!”
- 2:25 But this other guy, he felt that in spite of the “no’s” and rejections…
- 2:30 …in spite of how bad the economy is, in spite of what the newspapers are saying…
- 2:36 that it’s possible. That “somebody somewhere, will give me a job.”
- 2:42 He just kept going! Thinking it was possible.
- 2:45 And guess what ladies and gentlemen? That’s what we have to do with our dreams.
- 2:50 Because things happen to ya in life, that you can never ever anticipate.
- 2:55 And many times when those things happen, you wanna give up!
- 3:01 Easy is not an option.
- 3:06I t’s hard living! Life is hard…
- 3:09 See it’s hard when, when you are forty-nine years old, been working on a job for seventeen years…
- 3:16 …and they come in and tell you “you’re finished” and give you one week’s severance pay.
- 3:22 And you gotta start all over again.
- 3:25 It’s hard handling just the tragedies of life. It’s hard.
- 3:31 When you’re working on something, and, and you put everything you have in it…
- 3:36 …and it doesn’t work out — you lose your money and other people’s money.
- 3:43 Know what I discovered? When you’re working at your dream, somebody said:
- 3:47 “the harder the battle, the sweeter the victory!”
- 3:51 It’s good to ya — why? See…
- 3:52 …what you become in the process that’s more important than the dream!
- 3:57 That’s far more important!
- 3:58 The kind of person you become
- 4:00 the character that you build,
- 4:01 the courage that you develop,
- 4:03 the faith that you’re manifesting!
- 4:05 Oh it’s, it’s something that– you get up, you look yourself in the mirror…
- 4:09 you’re a different kind of person, you walk with a different kind of spirit.
- 4:13 You’ve got to have that kind of courage, that type of determination, if you wanna make it happen.
- 4:18 It’s you.
- 4:20 You’ve got to take personal responsibility to make it happen.
- 4:26 You must have faith!
- 4:29 You’ve gotta believe in yourself!
- 4:32 You’ve got to believe in your abilities,
- 4:34 You’ve got to believe in your service, your company, your ideas!
- 4:38 Unquestionably!
- 4:40 You’ve got to have faith, and that faith gives you…
- 4:43 patience!
- 4:45 But it`s not gonna happen as quickly as you want it to happen!
- 4:49 New Voice: It`s yo` dream — if you want it to happen — get yo’ butt up and make it happen!
- 4:54 If you want it to happen — rise and grind!
- 4:58I dare you not to go back to sleep!
- 4:59 I dare you to get up!
- 5:00 And I dare you to chase yo’ dreams!
- 5:04 Old Voice: It’s possible you can win!
- 5:08 Whatever comes to you, don’t run from it. Don’t try and duck it, like most people do…
- 5:13 …drive toward it!
- 5:23 You wanna make your dreams come true? You gotta stay focused!
- 5:25 Some people’d rather get even, than get ahead!
- 5:27 Stay focused on where you wanna go!
- 5:38 Where’re you going with your life?
