Motivating Growth – Forecasting 50

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So anyway, here’s how I’m going to start. In 1954, Walt Disney received a plaque from the President of the United States, and it said, the United States’ largest dreamer. And in 1954, that was one of the greatest compliments you could get.

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It was one of his prized possessions. Now today, if someone calls you a dreamer, that is not a compliment. That’s a cut down.

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What they’re really saying is, get your head out of the clouds, get realistic, get a job, you know, stay focused. And it’s all puke. It’s just disgusting.

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But the reality is, the people that are knocking your dream do not understand that the 1905 definition of the word job in the dictionary was a temporary means of income until your business takes off. Look that one up. So the point is, Walt Disney got a plaque for being the United States’ greatest dreamer.

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Many people don’t know, he actually filed bankruptcy seven times. This was before the seven-year law. And countless people bailed him out.

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Why? Because he was resolute to his dream. There was nobody snyoping Walt Disney. He was not susceptible to the negative influences of other people.

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I want to bring to the attention of people the phrase that what the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve. Now let me say it again. What the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

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Not what the mind can conceive. A lot of people think about some really cool things, but they don’t always actually believe it. When you think of something and you know in your gut, in your heart of hearts, I can do that.

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I’ve got this. I’ve got this. It’s a done deal.

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At that point, the physical manifestation, it just has to happen. And I know in our business here, in our 24, 25 years, we have definitely conceived and believed things that were eventually achieved. And then there’s Henry Ford’s very, very famous statement.

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If you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right. That was the signature line of my emails for 10 years. If you think you can or think you can’t, you’re right.

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Now I want to go to a passage that starts off a chapter of a very famous book written in 1926 by a very famous person. It goes like this. Isn’t it amazing that a man with definiteness of purpose goes through life and watches how the world steps aside and then even comes beside and helps him with his aims? Let me say it again.

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Isn’t it amazing how a man with definiteness of purpose, how about this, a written goal? Isn’t it amazing how a man with definiteness of purpose goes through life and watches how the world steps aside and then the world comes beside and even helps him with his aims? How many times have you been around people where they set a goal? Right now, the guy that comes to my mind is Steve Jobs. He set a goal. He’s resolute.

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Some people in his autobiography talked about reality distortion, but Steve Jobs had a reality distortion field. He would say that things could be built when physically they couldn’t be built. And then two to three years later, technology would catch up with him and they could be built.

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So the point is, his mind could conceive it and believe it, and so it was achieved. Are you guys following me on this? You guys following this? So I want to do a little exercise when you guys get home. If you’re driving in your car right now, obviously don’t do this.