"Quitting" is NOT an Option!
Recently, during one of my Live On-line Meetings, I talked about how most people, when the going gets tough, take the easy way out and quit! That is so sad! But, it's a fact! "Quitting" is a disease and will follow you until your life's end. Just the thought of "quitting" turns my stomach!
The pages of history are loaded with accounts of great victories that were won by those who maintained the attitude that "Quitting" is NOT an option! Here's a glimpse of some:
>> When Thomas Edison invented the light bulb, he tried over 2000 times before he got it right. A reporter asked him how it felt to fail so many times. Mr. Edison said, "I never failed once. I invented the light bulb. It just happened to be a 2000-step process."
>> In 1962, four nervous young musicians played their first record audition for the executives of the Decca Record Recording Company. The executives were not impressed. While turning them down, one executive said, "We don't like the sound. Groups of guitars are on their way out." That group was called "The Beatles!"
>> In 1944, Emmeline Snively, Director of Blue Book Modeling Agency, told modeling hopeful Norma Jean Baker, "You'd better learn secretarial work or get married." That modeling hopeful went on to become "Marilyn Monroe!"
>> In 1954, Jimmy Denny, manager of the Grand Ole Opry, fired a singer after one performance. He told him, you ain't goin' nowhere, son! You oughta go back to driving a truck." He went on to become the most popular singer in America. His name was "Elvis Presley!"
>> In 1876, when Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone, it did not ring off the hook with calls from potential backers. After making a demonstration call, President Rutherford Hayes said, "That's an amazing invention, but who would ever want to use one of them?" Here we are in 2005 and just look at what has happened. Everyone uses the telephone!
>> In the 1940s, another young inventor named Chester Carlson took his idea to 20 corporations, including some of the biggest in the country. They all turned him down. In 1947, after seven long years of rejections, he finally got a tiny company in Rochester, New York, the Haloid Company, to purchase the rights to his invention, an electrostatic paper-copying process. Haloid became Xerox Corporation!
What would have happened if these individuals had "quit?" Oh! Sure! I know what you are thinking: "Someone would have accomplished these things sometime or another." But would they have? And, if so.....When!?! Think about it!
The real truth here, Folks, is that these individuals maintained the attitude that "Quitting" is NOT an option! Let's face it! Success does not come from hanging in the "sugar and spice and everything nice" syndrome. Only through experience with trials and tribulations is our character built. Only through all these kinds of experiences do we gain strength, confidence, wisdom, and ultimately success.
So, just like the examples given here, and so many others, we must "look fear in the face," and do the things we cannot do, while remembering that if we want success, "Quitting" is NOT an option!
"Assisting People To Success - One Heart At A Time!"
Lou Everett, Sr.
NOTE: If you would like one on one coaching please send me an e-mail with the word "Coaching" in the Subject, and your full name and phone number in the Body. Thanks!
Copyright 2005 by Lou Everett, Sr. All rights reserved.
Recently, during one of my Live On-line Meetings, I talked about how most people, when the going gets tough, take the easy way out and quit! That is so sad! But, it's a fact! "Quitting" is a disease and will follow you until your life's end. Just the thought of "quitting" turns my stomach!
The pages of history are loaded with accounts of great victories that were won by those who maintained the attitude that "Quitting" is NOT an option! Here's a glimpse of some:
>> When Thomas Edison invented the light bulb, he tried over 2000 times before he got it right. A reporter asked him how it felt to fail so many times. Mr. Edison said, "I never failed once. I invented the light bulb. It just happened to be a 2000-step process."
>> In 1962, four nervous young musicians played their first record audition for the executives of the Decca Record Recording Company. The executives were not impressed. While turning them down, one executive said, "We don't like the sound. Groups of guitars are on their way out." That group was called "The Beatles!"
>> In 1944, Emmeline Snively, Director of Blue Book Modeling Agency, told modeling hopeful Norma Jean Baker, "You'd better learn secretarial work or get married." That modeling hopeful went on to become "Marilyn Monroe!"
>> In 1954, Jimmy Denny, manager of the Grand Ole Opry, fired a singer after one performance. He told him, you ain't goin' nowhere, son! You oughta go back to driving a truck." He went on to become the most popular singer in America. His name was "Elvis Presley!"
>> In 1876, when Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone, it did not ring off the hook with calls from potential backers. After making a demonstration call, President Rutherford Hayes said, "That's an amazing invention, but who would ever want to use one of them?" Here we are in 2005 and just look at what has happened. Everyone uses the telephone!
>> In the 1940s, another young inventor named Chester Carlson took his idea to 20 corporations, including some of the biggest in the country. They all turned him down. In 1947, after seven long years of rejections, he finally got a tiny company in Rochester, New York, the Haloid Company, to purchase the rights to his invention, an electrostatic paper-copying process. Haloid became Xerox Corporation!
What would have happened if these individuals had "quit?" Oh! Sure! I know what you are thinking: "Someone would have accomplished these things sometime or another." But would they have? And, if so.....When!?! Think about it!
The real truth here, Folks, is that these individuals maintained the attitude that "Quitting" is NOT an option! Let's face it! Success does not come from hanging in the "sugar and spice and everything nice" syndrome. Only through experience with trials and tribulations is our character built. Only through all these kinds of experiences do we gain strength, confidence, wisdom, and ultimately success.
So, just like the examples given here, and so many others, we must "look fear in the face," and do the things we cannot do, while remembering that if we want success, "Quitting" is NOT an option!
"Assisting People To Success - One Heart At A Time!"
Lou Everett, Sr.
NOTE: If you would like one on one coaching please send me an e-mail with the word "Coaching" in the Subject, and your full name and phone number in the Body. Thanks!
Copyright 2005 by Lou Everett, Sr. All rights reserved.
Hey Lou, I am trying to leave you a comment. I really like this and the concept of the way you are going about helping others. "One heart at a time!" (Some hearts out there are broken and need mended.)
ReplyDeleteSome lives are in need of fixing. Hoping that they find you.
Thanks,
Pam