Having The Right Mindset

What did all these great people and us have in common? They all had failures just like you and me. But what sets them apart? Over time they have have conditioned themselves to have a better and positive mindset!

Lucille Ball, American comedian, film, television, stage and radio actress, model, film and television executive with one of Hollywood's longest television careers. Winner of 4 Emmy Awards, the Women in Film Crystal Award, the Golden Globe Cecil B DeMille Award, the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Kennedy Center Honors and the Governors Award from the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.

The Beatles, English rock band formed in 1960 in Liverpool and one of the most commercially successful bands in the history of popular music consisting of John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr, and came to be perceived as the embodiment of ideals of the social and cultural revolutions of the 1960s.

Ulysses S Grant, 18th President of the United States as well as military commander during the Civil War and post-war Reconstruction periods which under his command, the Union Army defeated the Confederate military and ended the Confederate States of America.

Michael Jordan, named the greatest North American athlete of the 20th century by ESPN in 1999 and inducted to the Basketball Hall of Fame in 2009 with accolades which includes 5 MVP awards, 10 All-NBA First Team designations, 9 All-Defensive First Team honors, 14 NBA All-Star Game appearances, 3 All-Star Game MVP awards, 10 scoring titles, 3 steals titles, 6 NBA Finals MVP awards and the 1988 NBA Defensive Player of the Year Award.

Thomas Edison, 3rd most prolific inventor in history, scientist, and businessman holding 1,093 US patents in his name, as well as many patents in the United Kingdom, France, and Germany. He developed many devices that greatly influenced life around the world, including the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and a long-lasting, practical electric light bulb.

Walt Disney, American film producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator, entrepreneur, entertainer, international icon, and philanthropist, co-founder of Walt Disney Productions, which later became one of the best-known motion picture producers in the world.

Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination in 1865. As president, he led the country through a great constitutional, military and moral crisis, the American Civil War, preserving the Union while ending slavery and promoting economic and financial modernization.