"This film is dedicated to grandma Vermeeren" "I am a reporter For Daily Chronicle." "If there's one thing that I've learned throuout my years as a reporter is that the end of the story is rarely the end of the story." "In fact, sometimes, it is just the beginning." "This is a story that was the beginning for me." "All thou we only met for a brief moment and was only one word exchanged between us, my life was changed forever." "Hello:" I am the reporter for Daily Chronicle"." ""Come in"." ""Thank You"." "The interview was with Vincenzo Vivaldi, the world's foremost violinist and composer." "I admit, I didn`t know much about him but I have my questions at the ready." "How did he become such a success?" "How did he create such a legacy?" "and what inspired him to learn the violin?" "I felt as though I was stepping on sacred ground when I entered the old man's room." "I could feel that his time to depart was drawing nigh." "Thank You for seeing me Mr. Vivaldi." "For our readers, what would be the one key factor, in achieving all of your great in grande accomplishments?" "The" "The" "The" "The" "The Opus" "Those were the last words he ever spoke." "As I left the house that day, I now had a greater question then when I had arrived." "The Opus" "The Opus is composers greatest work." "The opus is about us becoming the most, magnificent, extraordinary human beings that we were meant to be." "You and I are here to do a magnificent and magnanimous things." "You are here, to create, contribute and to connect at a high velocity." "Everybody deep inside has a dream and a vision, a calling and an inspiration that are here to do." "Anyone can do this and I knew, and it`s almost sound cliché." "Everyone says:" You can be whatever you want to be, you just got to have the dream." "And all of that is true." "Unfortunately it has become a cliché and people have stop listening to it." "The best way for you to predict your future, is to invent it!" "It`s up to You." "Vincenzo came to America when he was seven years old." "He came from the old country" " Europe." "When he got onboard a boat that would take him to America he had no idea he was about to encounter two things that would change his life forever." "One was a new country the other was a teacher." "and a violin." "As the boy listened, he was captivated and in his heart, he knew, that one day, he would play this song." "Vincenzo said that he wanted to play like that one day." ""Do you really believe that, do you really believe you can" the old man asked?" "The young boy replied yes." "That is the key to unlocking your opus." "The old man smiled and told him that he had just began on the road to becoming great." "He gave Vincenzo a notebook and told him to write down exactly what he wanted and to keep the book with him always." "Vincenzo wrote than one day he would become one of the greatest violinists the world had ever known." "The old man put his hand on the boy's shoulder:" ""When you get there, don`t stop." "Remember, your opus isn't what you do." "It would be the legacy of what you`ve become." "Vincenzo did not understand, the old master smiled and said: "One day, you will."" "As Vincenzo left the old man, he was grateful, for he had been given a great gift." "And all thou he would never know the man's name, the man had changed his life forever." "VISION" "Vision is all about who you`ve decided to be, as if you had a magic wand, you could wave over your life and you could actually be, do and have everything that is important to you." "Where you could be fulfilled, be in rich relationships and you could be abundant, attracting wealth and all great things that we all want in life." "You can start your path at an early age or much later in life I don`t think it really matters when you start." "But I think you should be looking for something that you just love to do, something that really gives your energy." "You got a passion and you feel you can commit yourself to." "Some people get into vision and purpose and make it so huge and they think it has to be so big that they scare themselves, almost freeze themselves and don`t come up with anything." "Your vitality in Life is directly proportional to the vividness of your vision." "When you have a clear vision, magnetic things occur and you draw in to your life amazing synchronicities:" "people, places, things, ideas, and event starts to synchronize in your life to help you fulfill your vision." "The law of attractions says that anything you think, feel, say and do, we attract to us." "So we are always creating through our thoughts, our feelings, our words and our actions." "Very common misconception about the law of attraction is that it's all about positive thinking and it is not." "Positive thinking is obviously more beneficial than negative thinking." "But positive thinking can mean you are just thinking about things that would normally make a person happy but if you're not truly emotionally involved with your thoughts you are not really having an attractive power." "If you are visualizing a car, a house or a lot of money or whatever your version of success is, but until u have a real feeling about it that is in alignment with that, if you don`t feel positive about those thoughts, you're not attracting anything positive." "It's the feeling that powers our thoughts." "Heart Math, the most widely recognized research Institute on the heart has shown that our heart have an energy field around them that`s 5000 times more powerful than our brains." "The heart is the real power source for the people." "When we want something from our head it can only go so far." "But when we power it with the feeling in our heart, the feeling of knowing, the feeling of love behind that thought, then we are moved to the inspired action that will bring us whatever we want." "Any time we set goals that are not congruent with our highest values, we`re not going to stay focused." "It`s very crucial to set objectives that are congruent and aligned with our highest values." "When you do, you don`t require outside motivation, you are inspired from within." "I work with thousands of teens every day all over the country." "I know if they love and believe in them selves and they have that success driven vision that so many adults have, is the very first thing you have to do, is BE original, BE yourself, don`t conform, don`t transform." "Find your own original gifts." "You have so many gifts and lead with those." "Believe in yourself is the first step to anything great." "If you don't believe you can do it, it`s over before you even start." "You see it all the time in grade school when kids are lined up to run 100 yard dash, they all start off pretty good, but as soon as one or two of those kids pulls ahead, you see a few slowdown and sometimes stop." "That`s because if they see someone picked up speed, they begin to doubt that they will ever catch them." "and their brain says:" what's the use"?" ";" "And suddenly they believe it here (in their heart) and everything slows down." "I started out with a life of welfare and poverty and became 25th wealthiest person in America." "That would be an extreme that most people can't even comprehend let alone relate to." "And it all started because I believed in my own possibilities." "Whatever we believe, we become." "I don't really think we know, what we're capable of." "There is incredible potential in all of us and I mean in ALL of us, not some of us." "If you find your passion and that energy wells up in you and if you can dream, and get committed to that dream and that vision than you can be successful." "And far beyond what you ever thought you could." "It is OK to believe in yourself." "Start now." "Start today." "You are the greatest You, that it will ever be." "Vincenzo had set a goal." "He began to see it powerfully and perfectly." "It became real." "He experienced it in his mind and in his heart, he was living it vividly as thou it had already happened." "This gave him the momentum to begin." "I think that the only way you can get to your goal is by having a clear vision and I feel that that clear vision doesn't necessarily come from your head, but that it comes up from inside of you." "The more we access our gut feeling and our core individuality and listen to what it is that`s wanting to be said thru us, then we have a clear vision of what we're about." "Most people don't really have a clear vision of what success is for them because they've never felt like they were allowed to have that vision for themselves." "They always felt they have to live somebody else's idea of what success is." "I think one of the steps that people may not do quite properly is that first step of intention." "So many times peoples intentions are coming out of the feeling of obligation." "When I find that when people really stop, which is hard to do in our society, but it`s the thing that is most required, for us to stop and turn inward." "Someone asked me: "If you can have anything you wanted, if you can have your dream life, what would it be?"" "And I was stunned, because I was so used to being good at responding to my difficult circumstances, that I even honored myself from being able to make the best of a bad situation." "So I waited for bad situations, to identify who I was, so i could feel my strength and do something." "Someone asked me if you could be on front side of something like that and just have it be, whenever you would wanted to be, would would it be?" "I couldn't answer the question." "I thought I have some different kind of work to do." "The only way you can get a clear picture of where you are going, and to understand what it is, that you want out of life, you must silence the restless thoughts, that are going through you mind, and you have to ask yourself: "What do I want, how do I feel, and where do I want to go"!" "In the 1960, the president Kennedy suggested that NASA was going to put a man on the moon by the end of the decade." "And NASA took the plan, they said:" ""OK, and what success look like, success look like, not man on the moon but astronauts safely back on earth."" "So they said:" Let`s plan from there"." "There's a group of scientists who look forward to success, and said:" "let`s work backwards and put the plan into place." "The problem most of us have is that we don't have a clear vision of what success is." "I started thinking about the creative process of living your life as it relates to creating music, because as I enjoy creating music and I always have." "And I saw the parallel so clearly, how the process is the same." "When I sit down to write a piece of music it is generally born of some inspiration." "I don`t work under the rules: that you have to write this type of music, it`s got to be 30 seconds...." "Because I do it for fun, I have full creative control, I work from inspiration. just as we should work from inspiration in our life." "That is what should guide us, that should help us to create our vision." "Not someone else's inspiration." "Not someone else's sense of passion or their likes or interests." "I have a philosophy of life:" "Achieving any type of goal is 99% intention and 1% methodology." "Is being crystal clear about what you want and the how, the methodology will show up later." "When people talk of clarity they think that is just writing down your goal." "The most important element , is often left out." "That's finding your motivation." "If you want to get your goals quickly, you got have clarity on why you want it." "What does it mean to you." "Why do you need it in your life." "And the stronger and more important: the WHY, the more power you will have to pursue that goal." "Finally the opportunity came for Vincenzo to have his violin." "The moment he saw it, he knew that he had to have it." "A loving mother felt the same way." "It was not as easy as it looked." "but Vincenzo made a decision and a commitment that he would learn to master this instrument, no matter what." "Finding you clarity is first:" "Setting goals, not just thinking them but inking them." "Write them down, having a vision board." "Picture your life you want." "It`s ok to brainstorm." "Start with an idea." "Describe what you would like your life to be." "You may find that it evolves, and that`s ok." "Take the time to decide what you truly want." "You`ll be able to stabilize some sort of vibration around it, from the law of attraction point of view." "When you're in achievement process, what is your greatest moment?" "Some people think that it`s when you're at the finish line or at the top of the mountain or when your bank account has finally reached that overflowing amount." "If those are your goals, then those moments, when you get there may be exciting." "But that isn`t your greatest moment." "Your greatest moment can be measured by three things that make it great." "1." "What moment will have the longest effect on your future life." "2." "What moment will carry the greatest future consequences." "3." "Which moment will have the farthest reaching impact on you and those around you." "Your greatest moment therefore becomes the moment that you decide." "Decision changes everything." "As Vincenzo grew from a boy to a man, he never lost sight of the dream." "Vincenzo worked and saved his money to pay for lessons for his violin." "He is doing it again." "Thinking about everything except what he`s supposed to be doing." "There were those who told them that his dream was impossible, that It could never be achieved." ""Still believes he`s going to be famous"." "Ladies and gentlemen, the famous, one and only, time wasting, daydreaming, broom pusher." "But he remember the words of the old master on the boat:" ""Do you really believe you can"?" "That is the key to unlocking your opus." ""Vincenzo, sweep the floor, boy, sweep."" "Vincenzo gain courage, and continued forward." "PLAN" "You just get started." "Most people wait till they know more, do more, wait till my time is right." "Your time is now." "So just get stated." "You can't sit on the couch and eat chips and expect things to happen." "You visualize and materialize, but you must act." "A mediocre plan today is far better than perfect plan tomorrow, because tomorrow never comes." "We all know that new year's resolutions last 30 days or three weeks or three days for some people 3 hours and that`s a result of this great commitment." "What I want people to do is to step back and essentially dial it down." "Focus on what you can do , not what you could do." "If you can get the big picture, start with the small stuff." "A decision isn't something you take lightly." "It isn't a wish or simply saying: " I'd like to."" "There will be no power in it until you say it with clarity." ""I Will Do It"; and attach that commitment to some action." "What will you do, to get things started?" "I am a big believer in planning." "Partly because my first career was in the television industry." "and if you don't plan a program, you're asking for disaster." "That's not to say that you set a plan down that`s absolutely rigid." "Put a plan down that you can change and adjust in the production." "Same thing with writing of music." "I start with an end in mind in terms of how I want to feel." "I don't have every note already written." "That`s what makes this process so fun and creative." "When you feel you have to go here because you said it in the first place, because that was my original vision, you cut off all sorts of possibility." "You don't have to know everything before you get started." "Top achievers never have all the answers and they also don't wait for all the answers to come." "They just get started." "They don't let questions paralyze them." "They understand how to face the unknown and have the courage to do new things without all the answers." "They know that the answers will come and they adjust their course with each step forward that they take." "Most of the answers come in the action and not in the calculating." "You've got to learn that when you're up against the unknown, remember this phrase:" ""Top achievers are not perfectionists, they are improvisers."" "Get started." "It's hard to start, it`s scary." "I know I've seen in my own life, that some people are just waiting for everything to be perfect." "There is no perfect time." "You never have a perfect plan." "You need to move forward." "If you are convinced and passionate." "Move forward, have some faith." "It can and it will happen." "Stay positive." "You have to keep moving forward knowing, you don't have all the answers." "I wanted to be a fighter pilot my entire life but back in 1986 an experience dashed my hopes." "In 1986 the movie Top Gun came out." "You would think that was a source of motivation for me, but what it was:" "Everybody else at that point wanted to do the same thing I wanted, to become a fighter pilot." "Back then I was pretty average guy." "I knew that people ahead of me were smarter, faster, stronger and I thought, I won`t be able to do this anymore because everyone wanted to do what I wanted." "We are being honest, so I will tell you:" "I failed kindergarten." "I don`t know, if you know what it takes to pass kindergarten, but basically you have to stack blocks and not eat glue." "I failed kindergarten, I know I am pretty average guy." "I thought I wouldn`t be able to make it, but I follow through with my dreams and I pressed on." "I realized I was one of the 5% in the bottom, but 95% of people who were above me, never took any action." "Often people have a great idea." "They get excited about it, but they don`t do anything." "They think about it and get excited about it, may be for an hour, a day, week or maybe for a month." "But it dies." "They don't take action." "They're really not committed, not passionate for it." "It`s like a passing idea." "One of the most important things to be successful is the dream, vision, plans and now you got to go for it." "If you believe in something fully, you take action." "The last six letters of the word attraction spell: action." "Most people are focusing on visualizing and not doing the action." "When you believe this can happen and you are visualizing and holding all that energy you will start attracting, not necessarily the car, but the opportunities, strategies, resources, books etc. that will come into your life." "If you don`t take action, you won`t get the results." "You MUST take action." "It may be very small or very big." "It`s inspired action." "It`s something that`s coming from within you." "Maybe you have to attend a seminar" "Watch this movie, buy this particular book, whatever happens to be." "Your part in this process is to do it." "I was successful in lot of ways because I took action." "You have a dream, a goal, an aspiration, you may have a million $ idea." "What is sitting between you and execution of your dreams is this:" ""Take action, implement."" "You grab the bull by the horns and you live at the edge of the envelope, and you`ll be successful." "Vincenzo continued seeking additional understanding and education wherever he could." "Surround himself with other masters, who can help them find his gift, and develop his passion." "This required effort and work." "As he practiced and persevered, his skills became more fine-tuned, and the instrument began to sing." "Whatever you want to do:" "whether you are an athlete, or in business or a pilot." "If you want to be successful, there are heroes and masters, people who've been successful that are willing to teach you how to get where you want to be." "You don`t need to fly solo in this life." "If you have a goal, you first surround yourself with people who believe in what you do." "Sometimes they are not your family or friends or coworkers." "You have to create your own "mastermind group" of people who will support you." "If I am in a room with five people, I want to be the "dumbest" one in the room." "If I am the smartest one in the room then I am not listening to anybody." "Then I think they are not capable of teaching, sharing or giving me anything of value." "If I am the dumbest one, then all four are brighter than me and i can learn from them." "Most of us are talking so much and are not listening." "I like modeling other people`s success, until the point that this isn`t me." "If you try it will not work, because you will send out feelings of resistance, no matter how successful that person is." "I model lots of people and look for things that they do and incorporate that into my plan." "I don`t model some people so much and then I go to somebody else." "Whenever there's greatness, there is also adversity." "When we work, there will be obstacles." "Vincenzo`s obstacle came when he turned 17." "One days he was walking to practice, he found that his vision began to blur." "Soon, there were great dark spots appearing before his eyes, and one day he woke up totally blind." "He could not see." "This proved to be a big adversity." "On March 10, 1981, I thought I had the world by the tail." "I was self-centered, the center of the universe, or so I thought." "I was very successful." "I was in life insurance business." "I was making a lot of money, I had nice home, car and a wife." "I thought I was living the American dream." "Then i bought an airplane." "The next day I tested the airplane for my pleasure." "That day my whole life change." "I had a power failure, landed in power lines and crashed." "I was entering my senior year, I wasn`t going out much." "We had moved to a new town." "I felt awkward in my skin." "Then I went out and met someone and ended up pregnant." "I was going into a school for nuns." "Everyone in school were convinced that i was going to hell." "It took me a long time to regain my self esteem." "So my life started as a pregnant teenage runaway." "My parents didn`t know I was going to be a little person." "That was a big surprise." "They had some difficulty and some challenges with it." "I went to school and had challenges with kids, they were teasing me and calling me names, etc..." "Four days later I woke up in the hospital." "I was in coma, in a bad shape." "My neck was broken at the first and second cervical vertebrae." "My spinal cord was crushed." "My diaphragm and my swallowing reflex was destroyed." "Every muscle in my body was destroyed." "I could only blink my eyes." "I laid eight months in the hospital and could only blink my eyes." "The doctors said I was hopeless." "I prayed that I can learn something from this and maybe one day I could help others through it." "I had my baby for 5 month." "It was tough." "I worked 3 jobs and couldn't really make my ends meet." "One day I placed her for adoption." "When a lady came and took away my baby, I thought I was the worst sinner on planet earth." "It took a long time to regain my self-esteem." "And to come to know myself that I was valuable person and a valuable part of the society." "In 4th grade, a turning point came for me, when I realized that being little wasn`t a costume that I could take off." "I was going to be a little person for the rest of my life." "My friends were 2 feet taller than me and I was not only the short kid in the class but significantly different." "8 month later I walked out the hospital on my own two feet." "The doctors said that was impossible." "I walked out of there." "That was just the beginning and I had 5 more years of intense physical therapy." "I went to work and decided to make something of myself." "And maybe I would be an living example of something wonderful to that little girl." "I was with my teacher for spiritual and personal growth and he said:" ""Peggy, I noticed, that you spend a lot of time in fantasy - that one day you`re going to wake up as an average size person and all your problems are gonna be gone." "That`s not really so realistic."" "Your success would be much higher if you focus on what you can change." "Things like your attitude, your beliefs, your connection to spirit, etc..." "That was a turning point for me." "I saw that I`m believing in this fantasy." "I had to accept the fact that I couldn't change my outer size but I saw that I could change my inner size." "It didn`t matter what the doctor, the medical profession or other people thought." "What really mattered was what I believed." "A lot of people think they can`t do this and that, because everyone tells them that they can`t do that." "It doesn't matter what other people tell them, it matters what they think." "27 years after i gave away my baby, I got a call from my little daughter Jackie." "She said on the phone:" "" Could I call you mom?"" "That was huge for me." "I don`t care what happened in your life." "If someone told you that you are a sinner and you think you are nothing and nobody." "You are somebody." "You find something within your self and get up and get out there and do good work." "Jackie and I are very good friends and she is very valuable part of this life." "I barely finished highschool." "Today I sat on the Harvard women's leadership board." "There were times, that I was down." "I didn`t stay focused on that very long." "It`s ok to let yourself get down, but it`s not ok to stay down." "I have gone from the depths of darkness to the heights of amazing joy and even ecstasy." "I always say: "I used to cry everyday out of sadness, now I cry most days out of joy."" "Vincenzo continued to practice his instrument." "But it was much harder now." "The music didn`t come as easily." "Often the notes didn`t sound right." "Often the people near him told him he was failing." "He began to feel like he was failing." ""I can't."" "Vincenzo had given up." "He felt like he had been robbed of the gift he had been given." "His heart ached as he approach the entrance to the merchants store." "Vincenzo, what a surprise, what brings you here?" ""I`d like to sell my violin." Those were the most painful words that he had ever spoke." ""Are you sure about that?" ""Let`s have a look."" "Oh my." "Isn`t this the same violin I sold you many years ago?" "And you want to bring it back to me?" "Yes I do." "I am certain that you kept it in fine condition, but I really have to know that it works." "Would you do me a small favor?" ""What`s that?"" "I wonder if you would play a little bit for me, Vincenzo?" "I don`t have my music with me." "Sometimes we don`t need sheet music." "Sometimes the music is in the soul." "Just once for me?" "Reluctantly, Vincenzo took the violin, and placing it properly in position under his chin, he began to play." "He began playing slowly at first, until his heart began to play the notes." "As he did, something magical began to happen." "He began to feel the power of the music, once again." "When he had finished, a change had taken place." "And there was hope." "I can`t sell you my violin!" "I thought so." "Keep the violin, Vincenzo, and play." "Vincenzo left the shop with a resolution, that he would never again give up on his dream." "Everybody experiences failure, and if you haven't is just because you haven't done anything new." "Because everything new requires failure." "It's just a fact." "In education is a term designated for new learners." "It's called the J-curve." "A J." "When we start we may begin here." "As we begin to implement new experience and information, we initially struggle, or perhaps even fail." "As we learn the lessons from our failure and are persistent, we become competent and very successful with our new experiences." "As we get competent, things go up dramatically." "That`s a J-curve." "Most things in life comes to us that way." "As we encounter feelings of frustration, we need to understand that it's normal and we will get through it, if we persevere." "A software executive made a huge error, costing the company millions of dollars." "This is a true story." "Millions of dollars for one mistake." "He went to see the chairman and CEO and he brought his resignation letter." "The Chairman said: "We just spent millions of dollars educating you." "You can`t live us now!"" "Not every employer is going to be that compassionate, but the universe is." "Every one of us gets rejected." "We need to reject rejection." "Make yourself rejection proof." "We spent 3 years writing Chicken soup for the soul." "We tried to sell it." "We went to New York." "32 publishers all said: "Hit the road, Jack"." "And then we went to the book expo of America." "We went to every booth and 144 people said:" ""Buzz of, that sappy stories are never gonna sell."" "The secret word that every winner knows is N.E.X.T." " NEXT." "You are going to meet obstacles, and adversity." "It`s going to happen to you." "I guarantee it." "What gets you thru it?" "It`s your passion, your energy, your commitment to this game plan." "And WOW, it can be very, very exciting." "I've never met a successful person who hasn`t failed." "Never." "Not in the course of my lifetime, or my studying...." "I've never met a successful person who hasn`t failed." "The difference between successful and unsuccessful person is:" "Successful people know how to deal with failure." "They learn how to accept it, embrace, understand and learn from it." "it doesn`t become a negative to them." "It becomes a learning, an education, it`s a tuition they paid for the education they got." "If you get a challenge and you think it`s a setback, it`s only a setback if you don`t stop and think, how can this serve you." "The master is the one who takes whatever happens in their life, supportive or challenging and asks, how does that serve them in their mission?" "It`s never what happens on the outside, but how you perceive this." "How do you take a challenge and use it to your greatest advantage, and what are the benefits, how will this help me to step forward?" "If you ask and answer that questions, then it`s not an obstacle." "An obstacle is only when you see only the drawback without the opportunity." "Some people are so worried about failing, they don`t start." "My friend says:" "You don`t have to get it perfect, just get it started, in the process of doing it, you will learn." "What is failure?" "That`s easy." "It`s not trying." "Not getting in the game." "It is thinking about it and not doing it." "You can`t fail, if you try, if you get into the game." "When I shoot a missile off of my airplane all missiles initially come off straight, and any engineer will tell you that a missile actually requires mistakes and errors to become successful at hitting its target." "As missile comes off the airplane and it sees the other airplane going another way, it sees that it needs to correct that way and it makes a correction." "that makes a smaller and a another smaller correction and then it hits the target." "The same is true with us." "We all got dreams, a target, we all have goals." "A failure minded person at first obstacle may say:" "" I am a failure, I always fail." Then they turn around and they give up their dreams." "A success minded person at first obstacle makes a correction." "They hit a next obstacle and make another correction." "And then you find out that they zigzagged their way to the target to success." "When I was learning to walk, my parents didn`t say:" ""Jack failed after 7 tries, let`s give up. " They said:" Keep coming boy, however long it takes you are going to make it."" "I've read so many stories about Thomas Edison who had 10,000 experiments to invent the light bulb." "Someone said he failed 10,000 times." ""No, I never failed once." "I invented the light bulb, it was just 10,000 step process."" "You`ll have some challenges and difficulties in life." "Those are the days what really tests what happens." "Maya Angelou said: "If there is something in your life you don`t like, change it." "But if you can`t change it, change your attitude."" "It`s critical for you to work on your attitude and thought to have a reservoir from which you draw from." "Cause you are going to have some days which test you, really push you to the edge." "Those are the days that you need to have a positive in look and positive up look." "That you are thankful and grateful for all things." "Even the challenging things, because, through the challenges we grow, we stretch and we start to become all, that we can possibly become." "In our society so often we focus on problems, obstacles, challenges and failures." "Those things paralyze us." "They cause us to stop, because we can`t see beyond that." "But the truth is:" " If we look carefully, we would see, that there is no such thing as a problem," "Everything is a puzzle." "And there are answers to puzzles." "So when you run up against that you are not sure off, it doesn`t mean it`s a problem." "You just need to find the right answer for that puzzle." "I`ve decided that every single thing that happens is a success." "Everything." "There is a learning experience." "Maybe I achieve my goal, but I might go after something else." "I just learn, grow and go." "PERFORMANCE" "Once you reach a goal, whenever that is and it may have evolved and now maybe different." "You`re basking only momentarily in that sense of accomplishment." "You can enjoy it." "It does not have to be a letdown." "You will find that you have naturally expanded who you are, who you can be." "You will have another vision that`s even bigger." "If you want success become an ongoing habit, I am at the top of my game. 1,000,000 books sold...." "For me it was never about selling books, but was always about making a difference." "You can't stop making a difference." "That`s something that continues for ever." "It's the little things that you do on a daily basis that get that momentum ball turning, and all of the sudden after a while you have so much momentum behind you and you couldn`t stop it if you try." "You can have addictions that are good for you and are actually taking you forward in life and are keeping you healthy and happy and success is one of those." "When you start tasting success, you want more of it." "Aristotle said: "Excellence is not an act, it`s a habit."" "So you get in the habit of excellence and you go as high and dimensional, multy passionately purposeful as you want." "You then want to do multiplicity of things, cause when game call Life is over, you look back on life and only thing you can take with you is your memories." "You want to create a basket full of life and memories there are worthy of your, valuable and vital, that are just exquisitely good." "The only difference between people who are happy and those who aren`t is their habits." "It`s really a very simple thing, it boils down to one thing." "What habits are you choosing day in and day out?" "The good news is that every day, you get a new choice to pick new habits all day long." "Every decision you make in every moment is determining the habits that you`ll have today and tomorrow and the next day." "and the outcomes that you`ll have in your life." "So if you want a life that is successful, choose the habits of successful people, if you want a life that's happy, choose the habits of happy people." "Slowly Vincenzo was offered opportunities to perform his music at local venues." "Although these locations were not ultimately where Vincenzo wanted to be, he poured his heart into each of these performances." "Each of them was a step in the right direction and he let his passion shine through from the beginning." "As can be expected this wasn`t always easy." "There were times he was afraid, but as he faced each challenge and each frightening moment, he seemed to build momentum and increase in his greatness." "Vincenzo gained reputation as a passionate musician, and his gift grew, doors open for him to begin to play with other masters." "Soon Vincenzo was playing in the most grand concert halls of all." "His dream to play was fulfilled." "His Opus had arrived." "But was the journey complete?" "There was the question the old master had asked him, that he still yearn to understand." ""Your Opus isn`t just what you do, it will be the legacy of what you have become!"" "Vincenzo thought in his mind often, about what this could mean." "Was this the legacy of the man he had become?" "The man who played in the largest concert halls?" "The man who commanded the respect of the other musicians?" "The man who compose and wrote the grand symphonies?" "The man who people adored and loved as the master violinist." "Vincenzo still didn't understand." "I think that we have in our own DNA, sort of a need, of assisting others and helping them move forward towards their own goals and visions." "Some of the greatest rewards in my life, have been watching the success of others that I have been associated with." "Henry James said: "Nothing of the senses will ever satisfy the soul"." "The only thing that satisfies the soul is gratitude and love." "When you have gratitude and love, you get more to be grateful more and you get to have more love." "So the second you achieve something, you are automatically yearning inside to ever greater achievements." "We are all here for what purpose?" "We are here to give, to interact, to create, we are here to love and support." "Those are all giving things." "Most of the successful people that I know, have a basic fundamental philosophical foundation that says: "Giving back is the key to success."" "A friend of mine asked me: "What`s the purpose of the universe?" I thought, what is the universe doing?" "The universe its expanding ever since the big bang." "I said: "Is it to expand?"" " He said:" Absolutely!"" "He said: "Anything you do, that that helps people, corporations, countries expand, you are in alignment with the universe." "When you are in alignment the universe will support you." "It will give you the resources you need." "Any time you cause contraction, you cause conflict, than you are against what the universe is about." "When we feel expanded is the universes message of saying we are on course." "when we felt contracted is the universes message saying that we are off course." "As we're moving along, we always move towards that which is making us to feel expanded." "Service!" "There is no higher purpose." "It`s all about giving back." "When you focus on giving, you receive." "And that`s how the Law of attraction works." "Ultimately, what we contribute is a reflection of who we are inside." "And the more we contribute back to the world around us, makes us more inside." "Think of your happiest moments." "Got it?" "I am confident, that it will have very little to do with accumulating wealth and it certainly wasn't a moment where you are alone in your room watching TV." "I`d be willing to bet that it was a moment, where you did something for someone that they could not do for themselves." "Or when you helped someone realize their dream." "Or you shared a little of you, the real you." "And in the end isn`t that what life is all about?" "It`s never about what you had, it`s about what you did, and the difference you made, while you were here." "Your opus isn't just what you do." "It will be the legacy of what you've become." "Vincenzo still didn't understand." "Then the lesson came as he was playing his violin in the park alone." "And so Vincenzo passed along the message that it changed his life." "As the boy walk away in the snow, Vincenzo finally understood." "It was almost as if the voice of his old friend the master came to him:" ""Remember, your opus isn`t just what you do." "It will be the legacy of what you have become."" "Imagine a hot summer day in 1944, Campus Morehouse college." "Dr. Benjamin Mays, the president of that college, sits at his desk." "Knock on the door." "He says:" Come in."" "He sees the door swing open and a man and a teenager are in the doorway." "He grabs the hand of the man Martin Luther king senior. (daddy king)" "Doctor, I just came to introduce you to my son:" "Marty." "His real name is Martin Luther King, Jr. (junior)." "He is 15, he is going to college this fall." "Very bright boy, but he is missing something and I need a big favor." "No, I don`t need tuition." "It`s more critical than that." "I came to ask you:" "" Would you teach my son how to dream?"" "Please, teach my boy how to dream." "Doctor Mays gave young Marty a piece and said:" ""Young man, read this piece every day and it will change your life."" "He read it and it changed his life." "And I got a hold of it, started reading it and it changed my life." "It`s so profound, yet so simple." "It simply reads:" "It must be born in mind, that the tragedy of life does not lie in not reaching your goals, No, no, no." "The tragedy lies in not having a goal to reach for." "It is not a calamity to die with your dreams unfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream." "It is not a disaster to be unable to capture your ideals, but it is a disaster to have no ideals to capture." "It is not a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for." "Not failure, but low aim, is sin." "You got to dream big dreams, impossible dreams." "Dreams that will make a difference." "Leave a legacy." "And a dream that will be your opus." "Your reason for coming to this planet." "I truly believe that all of us are very special." "We all have some unique, different, wonderful qualities." "We shouldn`t compare ourselves to others and say they are so much better." "We need to find our own special gifts." "And as you find those gifts and you become passionate about those gifts, you move toward those gifts and take action." "So you' we been watching the opus." "The time is now to take action." "No more praying, no more wishing, no more hoping that great things will happen to you." "Move forward." "Take action." "Becomes successful." "We are all creating our own opus." "We will all leave that legacy." "You come to the end of your life, knowing that you`ve lived from the inspiration of your heart, and that you`ve lived a life of love, joy and of happiness." "Because I tell you:" You can achieve success in life and that doesn`t guarantee happiness." "We have to come from love and from that inspiration of why am I here, and you'll be happy and successful."" "You know in your heart that you want to do something." "It might be open a business, open a service or write a book." "It might be any number of things that is unique to you." "But you haven't done it yet." "You now have the beginning of some motivation, your heart is pumping a little faster, the sweat is on your brow, because you are excited about this." "I want You to take action." "I want you to go out and do something." "I want you to Dare Something Worthy." "I want to be able to say at the end of my life:" "" Did I do everything I could with everything I was given?"" "I want to be able to say: "Absolutely!" So, It`s never done." ""As long as you're green, you're growing." "As soon as you're ripe, you are rot. "" "The joy, passion and success in your life will come, when you are brave enough to say:" ""This is ME!" - and then go and BE that person." "Most people tip-toe through life, hoping they make it safely to death." "Life is more than that." "It`s more than tip-toeing from the time you were born to the time you die." "It`s much more than that and yet most people will never realize that." "I know that I am not just a body and a personality, that there is something, much deeper and greater and actually magnificent inside of me, something extraordinary." "and the more that I live from that place, the more then I am able to see inside of other people." "That they are extraordinary, that they are awesome, that they are amazing." "And more and more I live from that place, the more I see that each moment of my life is amazing and magnificent." "That is the Gift, that came out of my challenge." "That is my Opus." "Now you have the tools." "You have a vision." "You believe you can do it." "You are clear and you know why you want it." "You have the first action to get started with, you know where to go for help and you know failure can`t stop you, only slow you." "You are the composer of your life and your greatest moment is before you." "It is decision." "What will you decide to do now?" "What will your Opus be?" "Your opus isn`t just what you do, it will be the legacy of what you`ve become." "One of god's greatest requirements with lasting success is to teach the man who possesses it." "To teach him about himself and to allow him to contribute what he has been blessed with back to the world." "Vincenzo`s music was a great gift to all who heard it." "But the true gift was in the legacy that he created in another." "This was truly his opus." "And now, as time passes, there is a question that each of us must ask ourselves." "What will your OPUS be?" "The Opus"