Failure is NOT an option! If you’re ever feeling like the economy is getting you down, watch this!
Did you catch the frumpy 47-year old Susan
Boyle on her audition for Britain’s version
of American Idol?
If not, it may be the best seven minutes you’ll
spend this year. Check it out:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lp0IWv8QZY
She’s middle aged, triple-chinned, eyebrows
that look like dead caterpillars, never been
kissed by a man… everyone just knew this
Gong-Show reject was going to bomb.
I had to give Simon Cowell credit, as he
did his best to keep a straight face. When
he asked about her goal, she said she wanted
to sing like a star.
Simon rolled his eyes at this train wreck. Half
the audience groaned. The other half just sighed,
shaking their heads. Some outright sneered.
But when she started to sing…
…it was like Angels from heaven had came
to earth.
She lit it up. And the crowd went wild!
If you were touched by her performance, you
are not alone. It brings out and OVERCOMES
something in you that you try to hide, yet
it’s buried inside you somewhere.
Any time you’ve faced defeat… been laughed
at and humiliated… had your spirit crushed…
faced rejection… experienced shame… you
strengthened this part of you that identified
with her.
Yet this one person reached inside herself and
overcame all that inner negativity in one fell swoop.
The face you don’t want anyone to see… the one
you hide even from yourself… is the one that she
wears every day. And she turned it into a thing of
beauty.
This is about redemption, baby.
And it’s within your reach, too. If you lack
confidence that you can’t work in this foreclosure
market, that it’s too hard, or you’ll never make
it, that’s that inner voice of failure talking.
But know that you can reach inside and bring
out the best within you and emerge a success.
If Susan Boyle did it, you can too.
