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COVER STORY

Mike slammed his hands on the table, Jia Jiang. He told us about the lessons he
got right in my face, and said, “Who are you learned from 100 days of rejection. Inspiring.
not to?” Yikes! How are you not to pursue a Well, it’s time to dive back in and recommit to

ridiculous dream? And so, the seed of my big my dream. I need to up my rejection game!
dream was just spoken into life. I had secretly I plan on making at least 17 minutes of
dreamed of it for a long time. Now, I had people progress each day. The most practical advice
holding me accountable to pursue it. I was I heard on writing a book was, “Write before

excited and scared. I dove in, and you’ll hear breakfast.” I love that so that the urgent fires
more about it in my challenge videos. of the day won’t push your progress to the
I was on a mission to fulfill my next dream. back burner. I plan to start a timer and focus
The dream was to turn my story into a major at least that long. Hopefully, I get caught up

motion picture blockbuster. Who
wants to dream of a box office flop?
Yeah, crazy and ridiculous, I know.
But if you’re not going to dream big,

where’s the fun in that? But after
making little progress over seven
years, I finally finished version
1.0 of the script and handed Mike

Rayburn the very first copy.
Finishing was one thing, but
now, I had to sell it to Hollywood.
Yeah, sounds exciting, however

selling means rejection! Do you have
any idea of how many scripts get
submitted to Hollywood each year?
That means rejection! After getting

advice from a mentor who had his
book turned into a Universal Studios
film, I jumped in. Well, I waded in.
Well, OK, I dipped my toe, and my

enthusiasm quickly evaporated.
In 2019 I heard one of the most
inspiring speakers of my lifetime at
a National Speakers Association Convention, Click here to watch the Day 46 Episode on Youtube

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