Parvati Magazine | Page 31

BUSINESS is not about being the biggest, baddest and most ferocious business out there. It is about knowing your own sense of value. Knowing your own sense of worth even when your external environment may trying to tell you something different. Does this mean that mice can’t become lions? Absolutely not. As soon as you know your own self worth, and root yourself in that knowing no external stimuli can change that and then the mouse becomes a lion. Lets look at the world’s most famous mouse to illustrate when a mouse becomes a lion. A newspaper editor fired Walt Disney because “he lacked imagination and had no good ideas”. Could you imagine if he believed this editor? This was just the beginning of a string of failures for Walt Disney. In 1921, Disney formed his first animation company, which failed, and rumour has it that he was so broke he could not pay his rent and was eating dog food. When he had the idea for Disneyland, numerous investors turned him down and when he first tried to get MGM studios to distribute Mickey Mouse in 1927, he was told that the idea would never work. for Apple and its investors. This fierce knowing of your own value combined with the ali ۛY[