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Inspire
Become inspired and you can inspire others But, Steve's rise to the top didn't go without a hitch. In fact, he founded Pixar, the world's most successful animation studio, as a result of being fired by Apple, the company he created. It was just "The Push" he needed to reach his full potential. As my friend David McNally says, "The circumstances of our lives have as much power as we choose to give them." Giving a shot of inspiration when you need it most is why David and I teamed up to write The Push w/free Dvd : Unleashing the Power of Encouragement. inspire, today, with this movie. Today, I'd like to share Steve Jobs' story from The Push. It's one that I'm sure will inspire you...one that you'll want to pass along to friends:
Inspire, your team today. In his commencement speech at Stanford University in 2005, Steve Jobs, one of the co-founders of Apple Computer and the founder of Pixar Studios, shared how getting fired from the company he started brought him to a new creative level: I was lucky—I found out what I loved to do early in life. Woz (Steve Wozniak) and I started Apple in my parents' garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4,000 employees. We had just released our finest creation—the Macintosh—a year earlier, and I had just turned 30. And then I got fired. How can you get fired from a company you started? Well, as Apple grew we hired someone who I thought was very talented to run the company with me, and for the first year or so things went well. But then our visions of the future began to diverge and eventually we had a falling out. When we did, our Board of Directors sided with him. So at 30 I was out, and very publicly out. What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating. I really didn't know what to do for a few months. I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down—that I had dropped the baton as it as being passed to me. I was a very public failure, and I even thought about running away from the valley. But something slowly began to dawn on me—I still loved what I did. The turn of events at Apple had not changed that one bit. I had been rejected, but I was still in love. And so I decided to start over. I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, although less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life. During the next five years, I started a company named NeXT, another company named Pixar, and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my wife. Pixar went on to create the world's first computer animated feature film, Toy Story, and is now the most successful animation studio in the world. In a remarkable turn of events, Apple bought NeXT, I returned to Apple, and the technology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple's current renaissance. I'm pretty sure none of this would have happened if I hadn't been fired from Apple. It was awful tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed it. Sometimes life hits you hard in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved with I did. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. Watch and inspire, The Push w/free Dvd
We hope that the 28 stories and inspirational quotes in The Push: Unleashing the Power of Encouragement will inspire you to offer your own encouragement to someone who may need it today. As Zig Ziglar said: "You never know when one kind act, or word of encouragement can change a life forever."
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