A short transcript excerpt from the YouTube video "The Soul of Success: The Jack Canfield Story" capturing a live teaching/demo moment where Jack Canfield uses a $50-bill example to illustrate the importance of taking action, followed by several testimonials describing Canfield’s curiosity, compassion, and the origin and commercial success of the Chicken Soup for the Soul brand (noted as a $100 million brand). The clip mixes in-the-moment audience interaction with retrospective anecdotes from colleagues and associates.
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If this $50 bill were available, and it is, I'm going to show you the one secret that separates winners from losers more than anything else. Okay? So if this was available, who would want it?
Thank you.
Alright, now don't go away yet. Come back. Tell us your name.
Debbie.
What did Debbie do that no one else in the audience did? She got up and she took action. See, too many times we sit around and we wait and we hope and we dream and we affirm and we pray and we meditate and we do all that and all that's important. It's part of the process. But at certain point the opportunity shows up and if you don't act, you get to sit and not have $50.
What drives Jack Canfield, no one knows. The man is just, he's so curious. He is an 8 year old boy in a 72 year old body.
What drives Jack is. Very moving. It's a deep soul desire to contribute to you, the individual, and thus to humanity. I even tell him when I see him, I say, you know, I love you and I would do anything for him because I think he's really a wonderful man.
Jack is my brother from another mother. He's far more sacred to me than he'll ever know.
He has such a diverse audience around the world. But I think who a person is before the world knows them, before they make it big and they become famous, that always tells you something about their depth of caring.
One of the things that's critical is to realize that where you are right now, whether you're happy or not, everything in your life has led you to this moment in time. The name for Chicken Soup for the Soul came through a meditation. That name, Chicken Soup for the Soul is now a brand that's worth $100 million.
And so he walks in the office like, oh my God, duh, we should be putting these stories in a book.
And this is the truth.
Tears coming down my eyes, I'm going, oh my God, what are people gonna think? You couldn't pump it out fast enough to put it in a truck and ship it out the door. I can remember a point in time actually telling the sales department one December, do not take an order for a chicken soup book that has to ship this month. I don't want any more revenue.
I believe that if you think of a dream, you have the capacity to make that dream come true.
