As you set goals for the coming year, remember to dream big and don’t let anyone else tell you
that you can’t be or do anything you set your mind to. Here are a few reminders:

• In 1962, four nervous young musicians played their first record audition for the executives
of the Decca Recording Company. The executives were not impressed. While turning
down this group of musicians, one executive said, “We don’t like their sound. Groups of
guitars are on the way out.” The group was called The Beatles.
• In 1944, Emmeline Snively, director of the Blue Book Modeling Agency, told modeling
hopeful Norma Jean Baker, “You’d better learn secretarial work or else get married.”
Norma Jean went on to become Marilyn Monroe.
• In 1954, Jimmy Denny, manager of the Grand Ole Opry, fired a singer after one
performance. He told him, “You ain’t goin’ nowhere, son. You ought to go back to drivin’ a
truck.” The boy went on to become Elvis Presley.
• When Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone in 1876, it did not ring off the hook
with calls from potential backers. After making a demonstration call using the new
technology, President Rutherford Hayes said, “That’s an amazing invention, but who
would ever want to use one of them?”
• He dropped out of school at 15 to support his parents, tried sending his resume to The
Carol Burnett Show and was rejected, was booed off the stage of his first public comedy
show, and failed to land a coveted part on Saturday Night Live. Jim Carrey is now a movie
star and millionaire comedian, and was invited to host Saturday Night Live.
Everywhere we look we can find similar stories behind many of our greatest inventions, stars,
and heroes. These stories remind us that when we stay true to our vision for ourselves—even in
the face of other people’s lack of vision, anything is possible.

Wade Conway NMLS #157765

Your Real Estate/Mortgage Consultant For Life
P.S.  I hope you stay true to your vision this year. Contact me at
wconway@lincolnhomeloans.com or call me at 615-838-8777.