The Success Story of Walt Disney

Success is a low hanging fruit for those that apply hard work with determination and discipline. This is always true through all generations because as soon as you learn how to make success happen in your life, you'll keep having repeats of it if you maintain undeterred determination and discipline while still working hard to retain your position. Look at the list of successful people in our society today and you will find the reality of this trait.

Walt Disney won 22 Grammy Awards in his lifetime and that is the highest anyone has won in history. Walt did not start his life as a wunderkind, he struggled through with definiteness of purpose until he became an entrepreneur and a success with legacy indelibly showing on our TV and our children are habituated to the animated characters he invented, the entertainment world he created. The secret of Walt Disney’s creative and brilliant mind was in his tenacity. Disney found his purpose for living even though he was sacked from a paying job, he declared bankruptcy in 1923, his cartoon rights were stolen by a New York cartoon distributor Margret Winkler and her husband. Not perturbed with the failures that greeted his early career, Disney went ahead to create a conglomerate of global attention and also became a larger than life personality.

Walt Disney, after his cartoon rights were stolen could have given up on his dream but he went ahead to invent Mickey Mouse and the friends-Minnie Mouse, Donald Duck, Goofy and Pluto. According to www.biography.com, in 1933, The Three Little Pigs and its title song “Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolfs?” became a theme for the country in the midst of the Great Depression. Disney then became a superhero and the effect of his tenacity has outlived his existence in our planet. What a man?

Many people break down after a major disappointment. So many bury their talent in the sand of complain, “Oh I wish that contract came through”, “I wish my parents were rich”, “I wish I had someone to help me through school”, I wish I were working in a blue-chip” and so many ‘I wish alibi’. Disney didn’t allow a major disappointment of the person that stole his hundreds of hours of work to deter him, he rather went back to the drawing board and created some more award winning cartoons that we still live with today.

It is evident from Walt Disney story that every disappointment has in it a seed of greatness and that if you can find your purpose, do all you can to be creative at developing it and build inside-out obstinacy, you will win.