2012 is YOUR Year
January 1, 2012 by Pete Mitchell
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Right now, I’m sitting in my movie theater room enjoying a Sam Adams Cherry Wheat – or as I like to call it, a little drink of heaven…
December was a great month for me. Not in terms of new clients, but because of the continuing education courses that I choose to invest in and go through. I had several conversations with one of the guys in my Mastermind Group that lead to a couple of powerful “ah ha” moments – for both of us.
The crowning moment was when I was watching an interview with Sylvester Stallone on the making of Rocky (interview is posted on the end of this blog post).
Often times we see celebrities and people of note and we forget that they were once just everyday people. At one time, Sylvester was a no name, less than B level actor. There was a time when no one knew who the guy was…
He moved to Los Angeles to try his hand at this acting thing. At the time he wrote Rocky, he was so broke that he had just over $100 to his name.
He had to sell his dog because he couldn’t afford to feed the poor little pooch.
His apartment was so small that he could sit on his bed and open the window and close his door – at the same time!
He was in an audition, and as he was leaving, he stopped and mentioned to the producers that he was also a writer. He told them about the idea he had for Rocky and they told him to bring it by when he had it finished.
So Sly went home and wrote the script in 3 and a half days.
After they read it, they loved it. They offered him $30,000 for the script, but there was a caveat – he couldn’t be the lead role of Rocky.
With no money, a real crappy place to live, about ready to sell his dog – he turned them down.
Keep in mind, this is 1975 when 30k meant something…
They upped the figure… Again he said no…
They upped it more… Again – NO…
It finally reached $330,000 that they would give him if he wouldn’t be the lead role and that really caused him to stop and ponder the offer.
What would you have done in that situation?
Sly, thought to himself, “If this movie becomes a hit and I’m not the star, I’m gonna jump off a building or walk in front of a bus. I have to be the lead role!”
And so the producers gave in, paid peanuts for the script and took Sly as the lead role.
The rest, as they say, is history…
There are many lessons that can be taken from this story – none of which is based on the law of attraction. Sly didn’t think his way into the role of the century, he took massive action to make it possible! He even wrote the script just for him!
That is what massive, directed action can get you.
I hope you are like me and have decided to take massive action and make 2012 your bitch!
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
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