MOTIVATION: HANG ONTO YOUR DREAMS
Chuck Givens says, “When I was a kid, I wrote down 181 dreams I wanted to achieve in my life. To date, I’ve made 160 come true.” Givens got his first wish — to write the hottest song in Nashville — at age 22 with the hit tune “Hang on Sloopy,” which earned him enough to build a recording studio. Givens remembers, “A few weeks after I opened the studio it burned to the ground. I drove out there alone and stood in the ashes. Then I just started to smile — I had survived this! I left feeling 10 feet tall and bullet-proof.” A decade and many ups and down later, Givens found himself selling real estate in Beach Mountain, N. C. “I hadn’t made a sale in two months, and the boss said, ‘You’ve lost the vision. Start selling people their dreams, instead of just dirt.'” That day, Givens closed his next sale. Seven months later he…
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