The BIGG Successs Show
Is Your Star Shining Bright?
Today we share our favorite quote from B.C. Forbes, which contains the secret to overcoming all the odds! Listen and read here.
Welcome to our 31st big success show today. We pose the question is your star shining bright the big success show with George and Mary Lynn This show we want to share the timeless secret to overcoming all the odds Normally we don't start our shows impersonating elmer fud Nor do we start our shows usually with our big quote for the day? We usually reserve that for the end But today's big quote really is what our show focuses on so George. Why don't you go ahead and share it? Well, it's a long one, but it's our favorite by BC Forbes the author It is when things go hardest when life becomes most trying that there is the greatest need for having a fixed goal For having an air castle that the outside world cannot wreck when few comforts come from without It is all the more necessary to have a fount to draw from within and the man or woman who has a star toward which? Depress cannot be thrown off the course no matter how hard the world may try No matter how far things seem to be wrong That is such a powerful quote and in that quote George is the timeless secret to overcoming all the odds And it is you can overcome all adversity by knowing your purpose Well, you took a complicated quote and made it pretty simple Well, you know, it's all about simplifying here a big success But that's absolutely right and we want to talk about why why you can overcome all adversity by knowing your purpose Well, the first thing is that star toward which you press helps keep things in perspective It helps you begin with the end in mind. We like to talk about Stephen Covey here as well Little things just don't matter so much When you've got a big purpose mm-hmm and allows you to just kind of roll with them And then your decisions are guided by this purpose that you've created Yeah, and the second thing is and and I guess to give an example the Sun never moves. It's the biggest star of all That's right. So there's a star towards which to press, right? That's kind of hot But the thing is the planets revolve around the Sun. There's all these asteroids and everything flow ground. Yeah But the thing is that Sun remains fixed while the Sun is like our purpose It provides a fixed point of reference for all the movement that's going on around it Yeah, because change is everywhere and you can't control everything But what happens is by having this purpose you can control how you respond to the change all around you That's right And so you adapt but the purpose stays in place and the final reason why is having a star toward which to press becomes an internal reserve To counteract external forces. Yeah external forces like doubt, which you know, sometimes friends family close colleagues Feed into that because they'll remind you of the risk Involved with what you're trying to do Maybe you're trying to own your own business or things like that But because you've got that focus you'll consider what they are saying, but you're gonna stay on track That's right So if you focus on what you're trying to achieve you don't have to worry so much about what's happening right now There's comfort in that and coming up an inspiring story about a father finding his star Today we shared our favorite quote and we talked about why it's so important to know your big purpose first It helps keep things in perspective Secondly, it's a fixed point that serves as a reference for all the movement around it and third It provides an internal reserve to counteract external forces having that big purpose is the timeless secret to overcoming all the odds And you can get a written summary of today's show on our blog at big success calm And here's our inspiring story about a father finding his star Dick Hoyt became a father Mary Lynn had a son named Rick who was born with cerebral palsy and Due to some circumstances at birth Rick couldn't talk or walk and that's when Dick found his star His star toward which to press was to make life for Rick as normal as possible and Rick graduated from high school Went on to college got a degree in special education from Boston college even helped them develop a computer system that helps people like him Communicate yeah, and so you know I think you'd have to say Rick has a normal life But here's where the story gets even more interesting Rick heard about a fundraiser a five-mile run that would benefit a young man who was paralyzed and Rick came home and told his dad We've got to do this dad. We've got to run this race and so for the first time in that race They ran together dick pushing Rick in a two-wheel running chair And then they moved on the marathons and triathlons and even the iron man Can you believe that iron man believable and when they have to do the swimming part of the iron man dick attaches a toe Line to his waist and pulls Rick in an inflatable boat Wow, and then when they bike Rick sits in the seat in front of dick in a bike built just for them Hmm, and when they run dick pushes Rick in a three-wheel chair. Well and now it's nearly a thousand races Later does Rick have a normal life? I'd say he has an extraordinary life amazing, isn't it? They get to spend time together. They've raised awareness. They've helped others and perhaps most importantly They're an inspiration for all of us. Do you have a star toward which to press look for your star today? So you can endure even in the most difficult of times and next show we'll talk about the greatest miracle in the world You think you might be surprised when you hear what it is and until then here's to your big success The big success show at B.I.G.G. Success.com You you you [BLANK_AUDIO]