"Part 5: Transcript of Len Thurmond's In Search Of Heroes Interview" by Ralph Zuranski
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Ralph Zuranski: Len, is it valuable to have highly charged emotions about achieving your goals and your dreams?
Len Thurmond: I think achieving anything is emotional. I think you have to be emotional in order to get anywhere. If you don’t have any emotion, you don’t have any energy. It takes energy to accomplish anything.
Len Thurmond: I think goals and dreams is where the problem comes in. What are your goals and dreams? People set unreal expectations. I don’t adhere to the theory that you’ve got to set a goal of making a million dollars in order to make a million dollars.
Len Thurmond: I think that making a million dollars in and of itself is pointless. I think your goals should be set to be happy, and whatever it is that makes you happy will come. You need to find an avenue that you can follow. We all have to work somehow at something, so you have to find something that you can do that you love. And family has to be a very high priority in everything.
Len Thurmond: As I said before, I believe in the law of reciprocity. If you find something that you love and you continue to try and help people better themselves through whatever it is that you do, it will come back to you and you will have everything that you need. And if you’re happy, then you’re successful.
Len Thurmond: I think the goals that we set are not as important as the happiness that we need to obtain. I’ve known people who were penniless and were ecstatically happy because they had love and they loved each other and they had their family.
Len Thurmond: What else is there in life? You can only spend so much money, and it’s great to go on cruises and do all this stuff. I do it. I make enough money to do that, but I think the money has come to me because I have tried to help a number of people and it brings people to me wanting me to help them. It comes.
Len Thurmond: Like I said, it’s reciprocity. I think if your goals are to be happy and help other people, then money and everything else will come to you. It’s inescapable.
Ralph Zuranski: Everybody in life has setbacks, misfortunes, and makes mistakes. How important is it to take a positive view of those things that look like failures or setbacks, and it’s hard to comprehend why it actually happened? How important is it to take a positive view of the things that aren’t going right in your life?
Len Thurmond: Wow, how important is it? It’s everything.
Len Thurmond: We, as humans, can be taught by other people all day long and never learn a thing. But you learn from your mistakes, and we have to make mistakes.
Len Thurmond: Someone told me if you’re not successful it’s because you haven’t made enough mistakes; you’re not trying hard enough. And it’s very true. The more mistakes you make, the more you fail, the more successful you will be if you learn from those mistakes.
Len Thurmond: I’ve seen a lot of people make the same mistakes over and over again, and it’s because they’re not willing to learn from those mistakes or admit that there may be a better way.
Len Thurmond: But it is the only way we can learn, and I think having a positive attitude instead of saying, “I failed,” as Edison said, “Let’s just say I found another way that didn’t work.” Remember that and move onto something else.
Len Thurmond: I think it’s imperative. It’s the only way that you can get ahead in life. Otherwise you’re stuck in the same rut and you’ll never get out of it.
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To quote Len..."If just one person can be helped to believe that they too can pull themselves up by the bootstraps, and become more than they are today, then this interview will be well worth the time.
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