:: Robin Sharma

Go Hollywood

Robin Sharma

Oct.02 : I was watching The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch the other night. I don’t watch much TV but I enjoy his show. Great guests. Interesting insights. And a ton of inspiration. He had on the creator of CSI, a man who used to drive a tram in Las Vegas for $8.50 an hour. His big idea? To write a script for a television show that married the traditional police show with forensics. That winning concept has made him rich. It also got me thinking. About screenplays and Hollywood writers. They get to write their own stories. List the cast of characters. And determine how the whole thing concludes. So do you. True, we can’t predict how life will unfold. In so many ways, the only thing we can expect is the unexpected. But by writing our stories and then doing our best to act them out daily, we can get a lot closer to our own Hollywood endings than those who don’t. So many of our professional and personal desires really can come true — if we write the script. And that’s a beautiful thing.

— Excerpted from The Greatness Guide 2 by Robin Sharma. Published by Jaico Publishing House, jaicopub@vsnl.com