Yesterday I watched the movie “The pursuit of happyness” featuring Will Smith on the television. It’s not every day there’s something decent on tv these days and I really wanted to see the movie after a scene that was included in “Will’s Wisdom“. (which is a great youtube movie about Will Smiths views on life and spiritual development. I’d say it’s a must-see.) I won’t go into the movie in detail but the reason I’m mentioning it is because it reminded me of a saying I had heard (or actually read) years before.

When I was still in highschool I bought an agenda for keep track of my classes and homework assignments. Since I was really into extreme sports at the time, I bought myself a “No Fear” agenda featuring all sorts of extreme sports athletes. It contained a lot of photo’s with inspiring quotes like: “Face your fears, Live your dreams“.
But the one I want to hand to you today is another that came back to me after watching the movie last night.

“It’s not how good you are,… It’s how bad you want it.”

In retrospect, at the time I was using the agenda for school work, I didn’t really get it. After all, when you’re in school it’s all about how good and-/or popular you are. Wanting an A+ on a math test didn’t get you an A+. Studying hard and making sure you were “good at it” got you what you wanted. There must have been at least 20-30 quotes in that agenda but the only two I remember vividly are the two I just shared with you. Pretty strange to remember something that didn’t make sense at the time.

While watching the movie yesterday I saw Will Smith playing Chris Gartner, a salesman that was losing everything; His money, his house, his wife and even coming close to losing his son. Even though all odds were against him he kept going; doing whatever it took to keep himself and his son afloat while doing a non-paying traineeship at a investment-firm during the day. He was so committed and persistent going about his internship that he eventually got a job as a stockbroker. Even though all his competitors had far more time and money he still managed to outshine them. It wasn’t all about how good he was, it was how bad he wanted to be a stockbroker that got him the internship and the job in the end.

For those of you that are working with the law of attraction, I don’t even have to explain how “wanting something bad” works. But I’d just thought I’d mention this side of the quote.

It’s all about focus. It’s all about defining a goal for yourself and wanting it so bad that it doesn’t even matter what gets in your way, you’ll deal with it.
Or, from another perspective: Wanting something very badly and are willing to take the opportunities that are presented to you, even though they may seem far less then ideal.

However, realising, knowing and defining what you really want is something entirely different. But that I’ll save that for another post. For now just remember, as Chris Gartner said in the movie:

“Don’t ever let somebody tell you you can’t do something… not even me. If you’ve got a dream, you’ve gotta protect it. If people can’t do something themselves they want to tell you you can’t do it. If you want something,… go get it… period!”

Until your next P.G. Snack craving