Facing The Giants
Snow Moon Girl
Life has a funny way of working out. You make your plans while God laughs — as the old saying goes.
I started planning at three years old by asking Santa for a movie camera.
My gram and great-gram said I had no idea what a movie camera was.
I said, “Yes, yes ma’am, I do. It makes moving pictures.” To their shock, I received a little red plastic camera. You would put cartoon slides into it, turn off the lights, and the show would begin.
I would gather my relatives together and stand up, adding dialogue to each slide to create my story.
Of course, at three years old, I didn’t know what “dialogue” meant.
I stayed with my plan — drawing and painting, creating my own characters — and to this day, I still do the same.
I once heard Tony Robbins say that the reason people don’t succeed is that they get bored or sidetracked when something doesn’t work.
I say life is like an old spoke wheel. If you don’t stay close to your dream, you’ll end up like a mouse running round and round on that wheel, never truly succeeding at anything.
Dean Graziosi, Tony Robbins’ Mastermind partner, says, “Why would you start something and not finish it?” When things don’t look or feel comfortable, that is exactly when you do it anyway — because your breakthrough is coming.
I have been blessed to study under both of these incredible mentors for three years now.
I was eager to learn everything I could on my success journey so that someday I could teach others that no matter your beginning or your circumstances, you should never give up on your gifts. Each of us is blessed with something we love and enjoy doing.
That is your red button — the one you push — and you stay committed to it, regardless of how you think it’s going to work out.
I have never given up on myself since I was three. Was it comfortable? Did it sometimes feel like life was playing baseball with me? Yes. It was uncomfortable. It seemed difficult and, at times, impossible.
But I’m here to tell you that doing the impossible brought me to the highest level of what I love doing.
Do the impossible.
