Dr. Emmett Miller's guided imagery program uses Eddie Cantor and Walt Disney's comebacks from financial ruin to show that setbacks don't define you. Your response to failure, rooted in belief in yourself, determines what happens next.
Then there's Eddie Cantor's story. During the stock market crash, he lost every cent he had. Every cent. Yet what did he do? Shoot himself? No. He wrote a book called Caught Short. Others killed themselves, but he wrote a successful book. It is not the hard knocks that life deals out that destroy us. It's what we do or don't do in response to them. And our response is always based on what we believe we are capable of. And then there's a story of Walt Disney, who went bankrupt 3 times before he was a success. Finally, he had what he felt to be a saleable cartoon, but it was rejected by all 3 of the major movie studios. They didn't figure anybody would be interested in watching a cartoon mouse who spoke in falsetto. So Disney opened his own studio, and the rest is, as they say, history. Indeed, the average millionaire has declared bankruptcy 3.5 times before he makes his million. Now, that doesn't mean that everyone who goes bankrupt becomes a millionaire, and I don't mean to imply that making a million dollars should be your central goal. But what it does mean is that those who do succeed do so by continuing to build on their strengths rather than being distracted by their failures or imagined inadequacies.
This has been a sample of Dr. Emmett Miller's guided imagery program, I Can: Achieving Self-Empowerment. You can find it at shopdrmiller.com.
