In Search Of Heroes Spreads Good News About Everyday, Real-Life Heroes Who Deserve Recognition For Their Good Works

Ralph Zuranski: I did too.

Willie Crawford: Yeah I studied why we do what we do. And how we’re impacted by other people’s opinions. I am not influenced by other people’s opinions right now.

It’s good that I didn’t learn what I know now when I was younger. Because I can set on the airplane and look across the aisle at the most… I don’t know the most beautiful lady in the world and you know strike up a conversation and feel completely at ease and feel like she’s more ill at ease than I am.

I can look at a ninety-year-old and see beauty in their eyes and just feel, feel their spirit, because I’m completely at ease with the world and with everyone and who I am and optimism plays a part in that. It’s wherever I am and whatever is happening it’s supposed to be happening right now.

I am where I am supposed to be.

Ralph Zuranski: Well do you think its important as far as prospective of expecting good things to happen to you, and looking for the silver lining in things that may not appear good first hand.

Willie Crawford: It is, you know I believe that when you do good for other people that good comes back to you. And it may not come back to you right away. I understand that, and so… you know if I do a favor for you or do good for you I don’t expect you necessary to give back to me but I know it will come back to me.

Ralph Zuranski: Yeah that’s so true.

Willie Crawford: And it does, it always has. I do I make contributions, donations, things anonymously to tons of organizations. I’ve walked into McDonalds, actually my wife is going to hear this recording later probably but you know I’ve tipped the guys sweeping the floor you know ten dollars or I have just given it to them to just watch their face light up, because nobody does that.

Ralph Zuranski: Yeah, yeah.

Willie Crawford: And it’s a good feeling.

Ralph Zuranski: Yeah it is a good feeling.

One of the things that a lot of people have is fear, fear of pursuing new ideas; do you think that it takes courage to pursue new ideas?

Willie Crawford: It’s takes courage to know that your ideas may not be accepted and that you may fail. You know if you miscalculate and you do something that was headed down the wrong path, so that goes back to that fail fast because something is going to work.

And a lot of my teachers in real life, a lot of my teachers in books, have taught that since the majority of people are average or failing, you need to do something different. You need to just step out there and take a chance you know.

Ralph Zuranski: Um, Um True.

Willie Crawford: And I do that. I have no fear of failure. I don’t want to leave my family in a bunch of debt when I die and I won’t, but I have no fear of taking chances. I have no fear of taking chances. I have no fear of rejection, which is significant, because too many people worry about what others think. I don’t care what others think.

I calculate my probability of success, my probability of doing the right thing and I take action. When I go to seminars I make a list of what I’m going to do in the next day, the next week, the next month, the next six months, and I do those things.

And there are things that I go back to my hotel room and get on the internet and do things that night on some websites you know just testing things. I don’t spend too much time thinking about it. I don’t get trapped in that paralysis by analysis thing.

I do it. I just do it and it has made a tremendous difference.

Ralph Zuranski: When you experience the discomfort that comes from pursuing new ideas and your pursuit of your dream, how important is it to be willing to accept that and go through it to attain a higher level?

Willie Crawford: You have to realize that if you do fail you know what the consequences are going to be. And if the consequences are extremely high maybe you should not do it.

But what I have discovered I read a book a couple of years ago and there was a thing in there that most of the time when you fail the only consequence is, maybe the need to admit that you failed. But there is also great probably that no one noticed that you failed.

You know knowing that knowing that even if I completely screw up, chances are no one even noticed that I missed up you know.