Part 4: Transcript of Tom Beal's In Search Of Heroes Interview" by Ralph Zuranski
RALPH ZURANSKI: What is your perspective on goodness, ethics and moral behavior?
TOM BEAL: I feel that every person has an inner thermometer about what’s good and what’s bad, what’s right and what’s wrong. But I also know that we also choose whether we want to partake in things that are good or things that are bad, or things that are right and things that are wrong. It all boils down to the power of choice.
No matter where you are in your life you can continue walking that path or you can choose to take a different route.
RALPH ZURANSKI: What place does the power of prayer have in your life?
TOM BEAL: I pray pretty much all day long. I have an inner talk and am always communicating and just try to be in touch with myself and God and the universe. While I’m driving and while I’m sitting I’ll try to have conversations. I feel it’s very, very important part of my life.
RALPH ZURANSKI: What principles are you willing to sacrifice your life for?
TOM BEAL: What’s right? I have a scar on my knee and on my eye because while I was in the marine corp. Mike Tyson had a comeback fight and we had a party in our apartment. When we went outside there was a group of people, because he fought McNealy, and I remember it because there was an event that occurred afterward that I’m leading up to.
Mike Tyson knocked McNealy out very quickly. We went out to our car. There was several marines and a couple of there wives. There was a group of other people who were apparently not satisfied with ending of the fight so they all circled up from different apartments.
They were having ultimate fighting championships and they were fighting one another. It happened to be right near our car. We stop and all of a sudden they start picking on us. Saying “You guys think your tough?” We said “NO, no everything is good.”
But then one of them pushed my friend’s wife. Without even thinking I just grabbed that guy and my wrestling came out and I took him down. What I didn’t think about was that we were out numbered at least 5 to 1. So what I would sacrifice?
I would stand up for what is right. If I have to have surgery a couple of times afterwards so be it. I was kicked in the head and had to have seven stitches in the eye and had to have knee surgery and all that fun stuff. But what’s right is right.
The guy chose to push my friends wife and I had to stick up for what’s right. I’ve since hung up my fighting shoes. There was a lot of testosterone going on back in those years. I try to talk things out.
Hopefully I am able to communicate things a little better than choosing physical aspects like that. But I will not sit back and keep my tongue tied if someone is doing wrong to someone else.
Actually just recently at one of the seminars I saw you at we were in the back of the plane and one airport was shut down, Chicago/O’Hare and this guy was just going off on the stewardess.
Saying “This is unacceptable. This is why your airline is going out of business, blah, blah, blah.” She said “Sir I apologize. It’s out of my control.”
He’s saying “I’m so disgusted with this!” I said “Sir I’m disgusted with the way you are talking to the stewardess. You need to put yourself in check here and give her some appreciation.”
His wife agreed. I’m just not the type to sit by if someone’s being treated wrongly I will communicate that.
RALPH ZURANSKI: Are your goals consistent with your beliefs?
TOM BEAL: 100%. I feel that to achieve any greatness or to achieve any goal you need to be congruent with your beliefs. Your goals need to be very congruent with your beliefs in order to fulfill them, is my belief.
RALPH ZURANSKI: Are your actions consistent with your beliefs?
TOM BEAL: Yes, and many times as a child my walk didn’t equal my talk or vice versa. I feel the people you see achieving the great results, and there are exceptions to the rule, but the majority by far, people’s walk equals their talk. I feel that’s a goal. To be congruent you need to have your thoughts, words and actions be congruent with the beliefs that you have internally.
RALPH ZURANSKI: Is it valuable to have highly charged emotions about achieving your goals?
TOM BEAL: Emotions are extremely vital to achieving your success. There’s a movie out now, that if you haven’t seen it, I highly recommend it. As a matter of fact it should almost be required in my opinion for teenagers, for kids growing up and adults to watch. It’s called www.whatisthesecret.tv. That’s an awesome documentary. Have you seen that yet Ralph?
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