20 VERY MOTIVATING STORIES YOU MUST READ BEFORE GIVING UP ON YOUR BIG DREAM

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20 VERY MOTIVATING STORIES YOU MUST READ BEFORE GIVING UP ON YOUR BIG DREAM

 

I have been trying to figure out what kind of stuff can inspire a person more. It looks as though people throw in the towel easily this days, most people are simply too afraid to pursue their BIG DREAM, often harboring the fear that it may never be achieved due to what they’ve heard, seen, read or experienced. Many people with BIG DREAMS loose motivation to reach their destiny and resign their fate to whatever life brings them. That way, many BIG DREAMS die with the dreamers and is buried, an unwritten novel, unproduced song, uninvented device etc. My observation is that most people like stories and the stories of successful people, their failures, disappointments, resilience and final success motivates many. It is wise to surround oneself with these stories especially in times of despair and darkness. This will revive your motivation and determination to succeed . I have compiled the best 20, they will be treated one by one. The series begins.

#1       WALT DISNEY (1901 -1966)

“I can’t believe there are many heights that can’t be scaled by

(anyone) who knows the secret of making dreams come true”

 Walt Disney

At the age of fifteen while he was in Kansas City discovered his talent in cartooning. He began drawing for advertising firms and catalog, the advent of early animated cartoon movies during that period captured his imagination, so he delved into any book he could find on animation. He borrowed a motion picture camera and turning his father’s garage into a workshop he continued his experiments with lighting, camera and different kind of drawing.

He saw a Problem

He discovered that existing animated cartoons 1) were mere tricks and visual gimmicks 2) that characters lacked personality.  

Decided to Solve the Problem

He focused squarely on creating characters with clears and easily recognized personalities. This was an exercise in precise dream definition.

Moments of Pains and Success

Can you imagine?  Walt formed his first animation company in Kansas City in 1921. Things got hard and he was forced to dissolve his company and at one point could not pay his rent and was surviving by eating dog food.

Walt created a mildly successful cartoon character in 1926 called Oswald the Rabbit. When he tried to negotiate with his distributor, Universal Studios, for better rates for each cartoon, he was informed that Universal had obtained ownership of the Oswald character and they had hired Disney's artists out from under him.

Moments of Resilience and Vindication

Disheartened by the events Walt in a train back to LA set about creating a new characters and his wife helped him name it Mickey. When Walt tried to get MGM studios to distribute Mickey Mouse in 1927 he was told that the idea would never work-- a giant mouse on the screen would terrify women. The Three Little Pigs was rejected by distributors in 1933 because it only had four characters, It later became very successful and played at one theater so long that the poster outside featured the pigs with long white beards. Later Snow White and the seven Dwarfs premiered in 1937. The film became the most successful motion picture of 1938 and earned over $8 million on its initial release, the equivalent of $130,477,540 today. Then another dream in 1955 Walt Disney created the world’s first them park called Disneyland in Florida.

This Man,

1)    Created the first sound, color and feature-length cartoon

2)    Created the world’s first theme park

3)    Built a successful organization that is still alive and kicking

4)    His name is synonymous with quality entertainment round the world.

5)    LEFT AN ENDURING LEGACY

Elijah Okon