Pursuit of Happyness (Part 2 of 2)

Pursuit of Happyness – Trailer script / trailer text

Before reading this post, please read Pursuit of Happyness (Part 1 of 2) . 

Although there are only a few words and sentences uttered in that short trailer (how long can a trailer be ? :) ), but every word and sentence is so meaningful and powerful.  Read my comments on the words and sentences said in the trailer below.

Chris trying to sell medical stuff as a salesperson.
Medical personnel : “We don’t need 2,…  we don’t (even) need one…”
Chris : “Maybe next quarter…”
Medical personnel : “It’s possible.” 

Lesson : “Maybe next quarter…” In sales…or anything for that matter, always leave the door open for future opportunities/negotiation… even if the current situation is not favorable. 

 

Chris :“What do you do?
and
How do you do it?”

Lesson : Seek and you shall find.  Ask.  Seek.  Don’t be afraid to ask… for help etc. 

 

Chris : “I want you hang on to my car for the weekend, but I want it back on Monday.
Rich guy : [playing along with Chris] “Feed the meter… !” :)

Lesson : Chris is toying with the idea / imagining that the Ferrari was his.  Napoleon Hill thought us about the power of imagination.  Contrary to a popular wise saying advising us not to count the chicks before they hatch, Napoleon Hill thought us to COUNT the chicks before they hatch.  Yes, the truth is, we must count the chicks to get them.  Count them, feel their fur, play with them in your hands, feed them – even when what you are actually looking at are eggs and nothing more… and before you know it, you’ll find that you’ll have all the chicks, every single one of them.

Napoleon Hill wrote : “See and feel and believe yourself already in possession of the money.” (from CHAPTER 2 – DESIRE)

Napoleon Hill wrote : “man can create anything which he can imagine.” (from CHAPTER 6 – IMAGINATION)

 

Someone telling Chris : “They said you are pretty determined…”

Lesson : Determination.  Yes, determination. 

 

Chris telling his son :
“Don’t let somebody tell you, you can’t do something.  Not even me (as your father).  Alright ?”
“You’ve got a dream, you gotta protect it”
“People can’t do something themselves, they want to tell you… you can’t do it”
“You want something, go get it… PERIOD.”

Lesson : Napoleon Hill thought us all that… 

Napoleon Hill : “The majority of people who fail to accumulate money sufficient for their needs, are, generally, easily influenced by the opinions of others. They permit the newspapers and the gossiping neighbors to do their “thinking” for them. Opinions are the cheapest commodities on earth. Everyone has a flock of opinions ready to be wished upon anyone who will accept them. If you are influenced by opinions when you reach DECISIONS, you will not succeed in any undertaking, much less in that of transmuting YOUR OWN DESIRE into money.  If you are influenced by the opinions of others, you will have no DESIRE of your own.” (from CHAPTER 8 – DECISION)

Napoleon Hill : “If you must be careless with your possessions, let it be in connection with material things. Your mind is your spiritual estate! Protect and use it with the care to which Divine Royalty is entitled. You were given a WILL-POWER for this purpose.

Unfortunately, there is no legal protection against those who, either by design or ignorance, poison the minds of others by negative suggestion. This form of destruction should be punishable by heavy legal penalties, because it may and often does destroy one’s chances of acquiring material things which are protected by law.” (from CHAPTER 15 – HOW TO OUTWIT THE SIX GHOSTS OF FEAR)

Also, read my previous post : “Thought drug traffickers, rapists & murderers.” (http://achievingin4years.wordpress.com/2006/06/07/22/ ), which is very relevant here.

 

Pursuit of Happyness (Part 1 of 2)

I stumbled upon Darren Lee’s blog:
http://www.darrenlee.net/blog/
And this post of his (http://darrenlee.net/blog/?p=41) introduced me to the up coming movie “Pursuit of Happyness”, starring Will Smith and his real son, opening Dec 15 2006 in the US.

It’s a movie based on a true story… about a man, Christopher Gardner, defying all odds and hardship to be successful in the end. Most elements in the movie are in line with Napoleon Hill’s teachings. Success is all in the mind. I will not repeat the synopsis here… watching the trailer and reading the synopsis will tell you much more than what I can tell you.

Here (http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/thepursuitofhappyness/index.html ) is the movie’s official website and you’ll find the trailer & synopsis there. You can also read the same synopsis from Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pursuit_of_Happyness )

I lost count on the number of times I played the trailer. It is so meaningful to me. Note the words uttered in the trailer – they are so powerful. I’ll write another post about them here.

For the story on the life of the real Christopher Gardner with pictures of those real people, read Wikipedia article on “Christopher Gardner” (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Gardner) and for a full feature article, read
“Chris Gardner has pursued happiness, from the Glide soup kitchen to the big screen” (October 10, 2005, San Francisco Chronicle) (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/10/10/DDGVLF4AI81.DTL)

This (http://www.chrisgardnermedia.com/ ) is believed to be Christopher Gardner’s official website.

Thanks Darren, for posting about this wonderful, inspiring movie.

My new business for paying bills and food

I had calculated that in order for me to achieve my dream of owning a house with minimum loan, I had to earn RM 11,730.56 every month for 3 years. And for me to achieve it in 4 years, I would need to start earning that from year 2 onwards, that’s from Oct 2006 onwards.

If I can’t start earning that amount starting from Oct 2006, then I would need to earn much more than RM 11,730.56 every month in the later years, that is, year 3 and 4 (2008 and 2009).

As mentioned in my about page of this blog, my plan to achieve that amount is to have a computer system/service deployed for the public to use. It will be some sort of a service… but I shall not reveal here for some reasons. Anyway, the specific service is not important for readers of this blog, which focuses on the journey of getting successful & achieving goals.

But I had a problem. While developing that system, it is better to have some income to support me. Even though I believe my savings are enough to last me throughout development phase, I do run a high risk of having my funds dip to an uncomfortably low level.

So I have a compounded challenge here – to develop the system, I need a means of getting some survival income *first*, no matter how small the amount may be.

For yesterday (Thursday) and today (Fri), I had started a business – to teach people how to earn on the net. Collecting a fee in exchange of such know-how is my current plan to earn my survival income.

I had designed and hosted a webpage detailing my Internet marketing course. Teaching method will be 1-to-1 personal coaching style. Then today, I went around distributing my name cards advertising this business of mine to interested parties.

Tomorrow, I shall finalize the syllabus of the course – detailing every topic and chapter.

Soon, I’ll need to distribute *more* cards and possibly flyers too.

Wish me luck. But then Napoleon Hill tells us very clearly that success is not a fluke shot – it is a result of having burning desire to succeed.

After being educated by Hill, the significance of the wish “good luck” has reduced so much.