Angels Among Us
Feb 25, 2010
Based on the number of responses I’ve received, yesterday’s post about making your first million clearly got in your head. That’s a good first step toward your fortune.
But be honest: How many of you actually committed to changing even one thing about your life? If you did, read on. If not, I would suggest you immediately unsubscribe from this blog, because nothing from here on out will be of any use to you. Because you aren’t someone who will work hard enough – I have no use for you either. Harsh? Well, you should have expected that from someone who authors a blog called, “You Sleep When You Die.”
If getting in your head was the first step, putting it in your heart is the critical next step.
There are two kinds of people in this world – those who commit and those who don’t. Those who don’t always chase dreams that they never reach. I am not committed because I have a fortune. Rather, I have a fortune because I committed. To partners and to family? Yes. But most of all to me and to my potential – at work, at home and even in the gym. It meant getting up at 4:00 a.m. just to get the most out of each day. It meant never seeing sunlight if there was still work to do. I can look in the mirror today and know that I earned every dollar – every single cent – because I committed with all I have, all I know and all I am. Every one of you can do the same. If you don’t, it will be an absolute waste and it will be your own fault when your life does not turn out the way you envisioned.
I’m not saying you have to go it alone. Once you commit to making a difference, you will be amazed at how many people will be willing to help you along the way. Why? Because they think you will help them right back. I have invested in countless people and helped them become very wealthy. There are ‘angels among us,’ people willing to be angel investors to provide seed money for you to grow your business ideas. They can be your friends, family, neighbors and even people you may already work with. There is a potential with anyone you come in contact with as long as you’re willing to share your visions, hopes and dreams.
Even me. But it will not only take a head and a heart. You need to prove that you also have a set of balls. You read right. If anyone out there has an idea for a fortune that they are willing to work their ass off for, I am open to hearing from you. If the idea sucks, you’ll get an earful. If the idea is truly special, you just may get a wallet full. Fair warning: you better be passionate; you better have support for your ideas; you better have a critical success path; and you better have an attitude that losing is not an option. More importantly, you better be willing to skip sleeping – because that you can do when you DIE!!
Thank you Jordan!
This has only further inspired me to eat rejection for breakfast and stop at nothing in order to continue to blaze the trail and be a “green messenger” for our company, paying it forward to our children, our children’s’ children and our planet. And for those who see the bigger “green” picture, supplement and even replace their family income, despite and especially in this economy.
Cordially,
Adriane Coplan
Director
Wowgreen Int’l
I have a dream of making it big in the hip-hop business. The lifestyle has consumed me since a youth and has thus far been one of the few things that truly makes me happy. I speak with such conviction and feeling that I know that’s what i was destined to do. I would love to speak with you in more detail but it may be too personal, for me, to share with the world just yet. I am following and your advice has inspired me even more. Oh and sleep? I’m from New York what’s that? It’s nothin for me to be up makin money. I love it.
Hey, this is a blessing how I came about reading this. I run a youth a youth organization in Los Angeles called LA city camp. I’ve been having the dream of taking about 30 at risk kids to South Africa for a 10 day message journey sayin getting along in out back yards.. The reason for me wanting to do this retreat is because I work with 3 of the major housing projects in Watts, Ca. Nickerson Gardens, Jordan Downs, and the Imperial Courts… The kids in each of the communities doesn’t get along and they live less then 5 mins away from each other. So what my plan is to take them 11,000 miles away and let them see how good they have it here in the states. And hopefully by the time we make it back here to the states that they will have a change of mind. And I want to also film the whole project. I’m lookin for some assistant in making my dream become a reality
Thanks Jordan,
Having known you and worked side by side with you over 20 years ago I want to assure every reader of your posts that you live, breathe and ACT exactly as you are urging others to do.
You changed the course of my career and my life by leading by example and opening my mind to what was “out there” for anyone who could first “DREAM IT” and then be willing to committ and work for it, TIRELESSLY.
Thanks, those lessons have carried me through some rough water and I can personally attest that if you stay positive, prepare, study your craft and OUTWORK evryone you can recover and reinvent yourself many times over and each NEW version of youself is stronger and more productive than the last.
Keep writing
Keep sharing the wisdom. I completely agree about being committed to make a change in your life day in and day out. You have to hustle everyday and remember that you can sleep when you die!
I’m a firm believer in working hard for what you believe in as well and making the necessary sacrifices to get to where you want to be.
I am an artist. Actor/Singer. Formerly Musical Theatre but now in the pursuit of Theatre, TV and Film. I come from Alabama in a family of Academia, and they don’t believe in anyone making a decent and respectable living while being in the entertainment business. They think that it’ll be even more impossible given that I’m a black female. I disagree. I have loved acting ever since I was little but couldn’t participate in anything until I was in college and away from my family. Four years passed, and after graduation, I moved to NY with $300 and 2 bags in pursuit of my dream of being an actor. Two years later after sifting through family dilemmas, emotional turmoil, and financial distress, I realize that I’ve learned an immense amount about myself and this industry. In order to get to where I want to be, I need to get more training. The best school for actors who want to be a force in the industry and in others’ lives is Juilliard, so that’s where I’m praying to get into starting in 2011. I’m taking this year to prepare myself for the audition into the school by taking more acting classes since the only accept 18 out of over 1,000. I’m also applying to Carnegie Melon, Yale, and NYU, all for acting. If you’re going for something, you might as well go for the top. If/When I get in, (and given that my family will not be helping with my tuition) I will be applying for grants, scholarships, and loans, and I would be eternally grateful if you could somehow help even just a little bit will be a huge help! I know that I’m going to make a difference in people’s lives; I just need a little help taking the first few steps. Thank you so much for reading, and I hope to hear from you soon.
Thanks for the encouragement!