On the way down to Spring Leadership this year we watched the movie The Pursuit of Happyness with Will Smith and his son.  Will portrays Chris Gardner’s nearly one-year struggle with homelessness.  I’ve seen this movie before however I think with where we are going in life this movie really hit home.  It hit home basically with the way that Chris was determined to be licensed with Dean Witter Reynolds.  He basically did whatever it took to make that happen.  Sure the movie took a lot of liberties with the story and not all of it was true but the way it was portrayed was what gave me the impact, whether it was true or not.  What’s pretty amazing is through all the struggles Chris became a self-made millionaire, it just goes to show that people can do whatever they want if they put in the work and the doing whatever it takes mentality.

I can take the whatever it takes mentality Chris had and apply that directly to what we are doing.  We are in our own Pursuit of Happiness so to speak.  We are putting our nose to the grindstone and building our future right now.  We are seeing a lot of success and more importantly we are seeing success’s in our team.  We may not be rolling in the cash right now, but with the continued hard work we will be and we will be able to make huge impacts, possibly like what Chris does.  That’s our goal.

I think everyone has their own pursuit of happiness, it may not be exactly what we are doing, but everyone has their own story of what it took/takes to become successful.  I love listening to the different stories out there of how people become successful.  If you want to be successful you need to get around these successful people. 

Last year at the Amway Global Achievers Incentive Trip, Chris Gardner spoke to everyone there.  While we were not there, I did check out some of the videos that people did post.  Such an amazing speaker.  Check it out