5 Success Stories That Will Encourage You To Keep Up With Your Dreams.
We all have our dreams since we were little. Life usually distracts us from them if they’re “too big”. I guess it is because most of us were nurtured since we were kids with the norms of the society, live by the system and most importantly don’t take big risks so you won’t fall. Well, that’s WRONG. I believe that in order to live a truly happy life you have to follow your heart and nurture your talent, that’s what keeps us alive, we all have at least one! Here are 5 Success Stories that will motivate you to fulfill your them fully.
The parsonages below inspired me so much. Some of them got fired, were told they’re not good enough, lost all their money or even started from such poverty and difficult circumstances. And they’ve all kept fighting and kept pushing for their visions and made it big time!. What they have done differently was believing in themselves enough so they wouldn’t need anyone’s approval even when they failed.
I know, sometimes you might think this battle it’s too hard to fight or they were just lucky. Well, I don’t believe in luck, luck to me it’s a reward for fighting and following your gut, that’s when the universe brings you all you’ve dreamed about in the most beautiful precious ways.
Know your dream. Work for it. Believe it all the way. And miracles will appear.
Oprah Winfrey
Winfrey was born in Mississippi to a teenage single mother. She lived a while with her grandmother, all along they lived in severe poverty. Winfrey was abused and raped by her own family members several times since age nine and at age 14 got pregnant but her child died shortly after birth. Despite all the struggles Winfrey tries to focus on her dream and won a scholarship to study communications which led her to her career.
At one of her earlier jobs as a reporter at WJZ-TV, she got fired because she was too emotionally invested in her stories. How ironic. Eventually, Winfrey got her own show The Oprah Winfrey Show aid for 25 seasons and become the highest-rated TV program in history. She also founded her own production company Harpo Studios and later her own TV channel OWN. Winfrey was ranked the first multi-billionaire black person at all times with a network of $3 billion.
From Oprah Winfrey’s Instagram
Walt Disney
Disney grew up in Missouri. He loved art from a very early age and used to sell drawings to the neighbors. Although they lived in poverty his mother and older brother Roy encourage him to pursue his dream of animation.
One of Disney’s first jobs as an animator was at the Kansas City Star newspaper. Disney got fired from KCS because his editor thought he was not creative enough and lacked imagination. Again so ironic. Then Walt founded his own company called Laugh-O-Gram that unfortunately went quickly a bankruptcy.
Disney didn’t give up on his talent and moved to Hollywood with his brother Roy and they founded what is now Walt Disney, it took time till his films got popular but when they did it was a phenomenal success.
Disney created Mickey Mouse, established Disneyland and was nominated 59 times and won 22 Academy Awards a record no one as broken yet. The network of this empire of Walt Disney worth about $92 billion.
J.K. Rowling
Rowling was born in England. In 1990 she started to work as a researcher and bilingual secretary for Amnesty International in London. She wasn’t looking for her coworkers’ attention very much, she took advantage of her access to the computer to write stories about that guy named Harry Potter. Rowling was very poor at the time, in 1994 she got divorced and had to finance herself and her newborn baby alone.
When Rowling finally decided to publish her stories she wrote manually each copy of the 90,000-word novel because she couldn’t afford to get organized copies and send them to publishers. She got rejected by so many until a small London publisher Bloomsbury gave her a chance all because CEO’s little daughter loved it.
The first novel Harry Potter And The Philosopher’s published in 1997 and had six more sequels. The success of the series of novels was huge. Each novel became a blockbuster movie and Rowling became a multi-millionaire within five years. Rowling is the United Kingdom’s best-selling living author and named the world’s richest author with an estimated net worth of $650 million.
From Simon Cowell’s Instagram.
Simon Cowell
Cowell was born in London, England. He dropped out of school at age 16 and jumped between jobs, wasn’t happy about none of them. Eventually, his father got him a job at the company that he worked in, EMI Music Publishing, in the mailroom. After a while, Cowell left EMI to form E&S Music with his former boss Ellis Rich. A few years later Cowell left and formed Fanfare Records with Iain Burton. The company had short success and after a few years went bankrupt after a few years. Cowell had no choice and moved back in with his family at age 30, broke.
Less then a year later Cowell didn’t give in and got a job at BMG as an A&R consultant and thrived there. In 2001 Cowell merged with Simon Fuller to produce a new talent show called Pop Idol where Cowell was also one of the judges at the show as well as in the American version American Idol. Both shows were madly successful. In 2002 Cowell formed another company SYCOtv which created the worldwide successful television shows American Inventor, America’s Got Talent and The X-Factor. Cowell named one of the wealthiest celebrities in the world with more than $550 net worth.
Steve Jobs
Jobs was born in San Francisco, his biological partners send him for adoption. Jobs went to Reed College for only one semester, he was pretty broke and had to sleep on the floor and collect bottles for a deposit.
In 1976 Jobs co-founded Apple with Steve Wozniak, his friend from school. They worked from the garage at his parent’s house and had to sell personal stuff to fund themselves. They released Apple l but they got wealthy and successful just when Apple ll was out. At age 23 Jobs had more than a million dollars already. In 1985 when Apple worth over $2 billion, Jobs got fired by the board of his own company.
That almost broke down Jobs, eventually, he decided to found a new company NeXT, which in 1997 acquired by Apple and a few months later Jobs got back to Apple and become the CEO. Thereafter Jobs invented the series of iMac, iTunes, iPod, iPad and of course our lovely iPhone.
In 2003 Jobs diagnosed with cancer and in 2011 he died. At the time of his death, Jobs’s net worth was estimated at $10.2 billion.
