I see your smiling
face as you read this, see I know you—you are smiling aren't you?
Knowing you
are here motivates me to do more. Give more. Happy people reading happy
thoughts, people amping up their motivation, their craft, and their life—those are
the sorts I want to hang out with. That’s you.
When I read #Seth
Godin’s blog about how surprised he is to meet people who proudly tell him that
they don't read (their term) "self-help" books because they are fully
set, it surprised him and mystified me. Fully set? Is anyone?
I know you writers,
and any others who happen upon this page know you have to plant your butt in
the chair and pound out your thoughts on the keyboard. You are motivated. I see
that, but a little encouragement is always welcome. One of the many truisms good ole Zig Zigler said was this: “Some people say that motivation doesn't last.
Neither does bathing that’s why we recommend it every day.”
I love those
motivational speakers who think positively, promote confidence, and tell us,
“You can do it.”
They remind us that
others have done what we are setting out to do, and if they can do it, we can.
They tell us that perseverance and hard work pays off, and that pursuing one’s
goals is important. They tell us to
follow our gut, to dream big, to know that the great source of the universe is
alive and well and living inside us. They spark a fire in us.
Regarding the past, Jack
Canfield said: “Everybody has had a tough childhood, get over it.”
Walt Disney had his
ups and downs, but he never lost his zeal for life. You all probably know
Disney went bankrupt once, he lost his mother to a gas leak in a house he
bought for his parents, and depression once forced him and his wife to set off
on a world cruise to heal. Yet look what he built. He never lost his childhood
zeal, he built “The Happiness Place on Earth,” and cut no corners doing it.
"I do not make
films primarily for children. I make them for the child in all of us”—Walt
Disney
