W.Mitchell-The Courageous's Life

W.Mitchell was traveling along the highway at sixty-five miles an hour when suddenly it happened. Something along the side of the road caught his eye, and when he looked back in the direction in which he was traveling, he had only a second to respond. It was almost too late. The Mack truck ion front of him had suddenly come to an unexpected stop. Instantly, in an effort to save his life, he laid his motorcycle down into a sickening skid that seemed to last forever. In agonizingly slow motion, he slid beneath the truck. The gas cap popped off his motorcycle, and the worst occurred: fuel spilled out and ignited. His next moment of consciousness is the experience of waking up in a hospital bed in searing pain, unable to move, fearing to breathe. Three-quarters of his body is covered by terrible
Third-degree burns. Still, he refuses to give up. He struggles back to life and resumes a business career, only to suffer another staggering blow: an airplane crash that leaves him paralyzed, from the waist down, for life.

W.Mitchell is one of the most vital, strong, and successful people. He is still alive and well living in Colorado. Since his terrible motorcycle accident, he’s known more success and joy than most people know in a lifetime. He’s developed phenomenal personal relationships with some of the most influential people in America. He’s become a millionaire in business. He even ran for Congress, despite the fact that his face was grotesquely marked. His campaign slogan? “Send me to Congress, and I won’t be just another pretty face.” Today he has a fabulous relationship with a very special woman. And he is happily campaigning for lieutenant governor of Colorado in 1986.

In every man and woman’s life there comes a time of ultimate challenge- a time when our faith, our values, our patience, our compassion, our ability to persist, are all pushed to our limits and beyond. Some people use such tests as opportunities to become better person-other allow these experience of life destroy them.

Barbara Black-Successfull Dean

Dean Barbara Black of the Columbia University School of Law, who envision herself to be dean one day. As a young woman, she broke into a predominantly male field and successfully obtained her law degree from Columbia. The she decided to put her career goal on hold while she created another goal-developing family. Nine years later, she was ready again to go after her first career goal, so she enrolled in a graduate program at Yale, and developed the teaching, researching, and writing skills that led her to “job that she had always wanted.” She had expanded her belief system-she had changed her approach and had combined both goals and is now dean of one of the most prestigious law schools in America. She broke the mold and prove that success could be created on all levels simultaneously.

She followed Ultimate Success Formula. Knowing what she wanted, she tried something, and if it didn’t work, she kept changing-changing until now she learned how to balance her life. In addition to heading an important law school, she’s a mother and a family woman as well.

Colonel Sanders- The Discoverer of Kentucky Fried Chicken

Colonel Sanders built the empire that made him a millionaire and changed the eating habits of a nation? When he started, he was nothing but a retiree with a fried-chicken recipe that’s all. No organization. No nothing. He had owed a little restaurant that was going to broke because the main high way had been routed elsewhere. When he got his first Social Security checked, he decided to see if he could make some money by selling his chicken recipe. His first idea was to sell the recipe to restaurant owners and have them give him a percentage of the proceeds.

Now that’s not necessarily the most realistic idea for beginning a business. As things turned out, it didn’t exactly rocket him to stardom. He drove around the country, sleeping in his car, trying to find someone who would back him. He kept changing his idea and knocking on doors. He was rejected 1009 times, and then something miraculous happened. Someone said “Yes”. The colonel was in business.

How many of you have a recipe? How many of you have the physical power and charisma of a chunky old man in a white suit? Colonel Sanders made a fortune because he had the ability to take massive, determined action. He had the personal power necessary to produce the results he desired most. He had the ability hear the word “no” a thousand times and still communicate to himself in a way that got him to knock on the next door, totally convinced that I could be the one where someone said yes.

Steven Spielberg - Successfull Filmmaker

At the age of thirty-six, he’s became the most successful filmmaker in history. He’s already responsible four of the ten top-grossing films of all time, including E.T, The Extra-Terrestrial, the highest-grossing film ever. How did he reach that point at such young age? It’s a remarkable story.

From the age of twelve or thirteen, Spielberg knew he wanted to be a movie director. His life changed when he took a tour of Universal Studios one afternoon when he was seventeen years old. The tour didn’t quite make it to the sound stages, where all action was, so Spielberg, knowing his outcome, took action. He snuck off by himself to watch the filming of a real movie. He ended up meeting the head of Universal’s editorial department. Who talked with him for an hour and expressed an interest in Spielberg’ films.

For most people that’s where the story would have ended, but Spielberg wasn’t like most people. He had personal power. He knew what he wanted. He learned from his first visit, so he changed his approach. The next day, he put on a suit, brought along his father’s briefcase, loaded with only a sandwich and two candy bars, and returned to the lots as if he belonged there. He strode purposely past the gate guard that day. He found an abandoned trailer and, using some plastic letters, put Steven Spielberg, Director, on the door. Then he went to spend his summer meeting directors, writing, and editors, lingering at the ages of the world he craved, learning from every conversation, observing and developing more and more sensory acuity about what work in moviemaking.

Finally, at age twenty, after becoming a regular on the lot, Steven show Universal a modest film he had put together, and he was offered a seven-year contract to direct a TV series. He’d made his dream come true.

Spielberg followed the Ultimate Success Formula. He had specialized knowledge to know what the results he was getting, whether his actions were moving him closer or farther from his goal. He had the flexibility to change his behavior to get what he wanted. Virtually every successful person does the same thing. Those who succeed are committed to change and being flexible until they do create the life they desire.