December142011
I finished reading a biography on Garth Brooks today. The man is a class act. It was cool hearing about such a successful person’s trials and tribulations. I’ve always been taught that it’s all about how your perspective is when times are bad, not good. Those are when true colors show. When Garth first set off to make the long drive to Nashville in hopes of “making it big”, he ended up staying in the city for less than 24 hours before heading back to his home state of Oklahoma. In Nashville, he had a meeting with the president of ASCAP (a performing rights society) who told him, “You have 2 choices. You can either starve as an artist, or starve as a songwriter”, and he became very discouraged. The book then detailed how everyone in his hometown was so proud of him for moving to follow his dream and had huge going away parties/events, yet within less than a day he had to return back to that town with the feeling of embarrassment and failure on his shoulders. It just goes to show that you reap what you sow. He had to keep going, and thank god the fella did. It was because of that drive and determination that he ended up selling out the 65,000 capacity Texas Stadium, three times in a row, for back-to-back-to-back shows, in less than 5 minutes. THAT’S NEARLY 200,000 TICKETS TO A CONCERT, IN A SINGLE CENTRAL LOCATION, SOLD IN 5 MINUTES. The whole story is kind of like that in which regards Michael Jordan getting cut from his high school basketball team. Despite whatever it is that gets thrown your way, you’ve got to keep on truckin’

I finished reading a biography on Garth Brooks today. The man is a class act. It was cool hearing about such a successful person’s trials and tribulations. I’ve always been taught that it’s all about how your perspective is when times are bad, not good. Those are when true colors show.

When Garth first set off to make the long drive to Nashville in hopes of “making it big”, he ended up staying in the city for less than 24 hours before heading back to his home state of Oklahoma. In Nashville, he had a meeting with the president of ASCAP (a performing rights society) who told him, “You have 2 choices. You can either starve as an artist, or starve as a songwriter”, and he became very discouraged. The book then detailed how everyone in his hometown was so proud of him for moving to follow his dream and had huge going away parties/events, yet within less than a day he had to return back to that town with the feeling of embarrassment and failure on his shoulders. It just goes to show that you reap what you sow. He had to keep going, and thank god the fella did. It was because of that drive and determination that he ended up selling out the 65,000 capacity Texas Stadium, three times in a row, for back-to-back-to-back shows, in less than 5 minutes. THAT’S NEARLY 200,000 TICKETS TO A CONCERT, IN A SINGLE CENTRAL LOCATION, SOLD IN 5 MINUTES. The whole story is kind of like that in which regards Michael Jordan getting cut from his high school basketball team. Despite whatever it is that gets thrown your way, you’ve got to keep on truckin’
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