6 inspirational stories about persisting in your dreams

In the process of realizing your dream, the wonderful thing is not the moment when you realize your dream, but the process of persisting in your dream. The following are inspirational stories about persisting in dreams that I compiled for you. I hope you like them!

Inspirational stories of persisting in dreams Part 1: Poor children can also afford dreams

1961 That winter was very cold for him. After his father, a truck driver, lost a leg in a car accident, the family lost its source of income. Every day, the dining table is filled with vegetable leaves picked up by my mother and discounted coffee, making the meals difficult to swallow.

The father who lost his job also lost the confidence and courage to live. He drank every day to relieve his sorrow and became an alcoholic. Whenever he was disobedient, his father would get angry and being beaten was a common occurrence.

On Christmas Eve when I was 12 years old, every house was brightly lit and the food was fragrant. Only his mother was depressed because she could not borrow money. The father was furious and called them all fools. The helpless mother had no choice but to drive them to the street to play. The three children, whose stomachs were growling with hunger, discovered a dazzling array of promotional products at the entrance of a shopping mall. An idea suddenly occurred in his heart. He asked his younger brothers and sisters to go home first, while he kept staring at the beautifully packaged coffee. He wanted his father to be happy so much.

Seeing the right moment, he quickly picked up the can of coffee and stuffed it into his cotton coat, but he happened to be seen by the shopkeeper. The shopkeeper yelled to catch the thief, and he ran away and went home to give the coffee to his father. My father was very happy. He opened the can of coffee and the fragrant smell wafted out. Before I could taste it, the shop owner chased me home. When the incident was revealed, he was severely beaten.

This Christmas is unforgettable for him. The painful taste made him vow to work hard and be able to afford good coffee. In order to reduce the burden on his mother, he worked in a small restaurant after school and delivered newspapers in the morning before going to school. Part of his meager income was stolen by his father to buy alcohol, which turned his fear of his father into disgust, and they rarely spoke to each other.

In the days that followed, he pulled animal skins for a leather clothing manufacturer, processed yarn for a sports shoe store, and worked countless odd jobs, but the conflict with his father remained unchanged. Despite stumbling, he was admitted to university with excellent results.

His family was extremely poor, and his father firmly opposed his going to college and wanted him to work to earn money. He roared and said: "You have no right to decide my life. I don't want to live a life like you with no dreams, no motivation, and no guarantee of survival. I feel ashamed of you." ?

He entered Northern Michigan University. In order to save travel expenses, he never went home during school and worked all holidays. He wrote to his mother every month but never asked about his father. After graduation, he became an excellent salesman. The reason for his hard work was to prove to his father that his life choice was correct.

That year, he earned a considerable commission and bought a box of high-quality Brazilian black coffee beans for his father for the first time. He thought his father would be very happy, but he was ridiculed by his father. He said: "You go to school hard just to buy this good coffee." In order not to be looked down upon by his father, he is determined to make greater achievements. Stimulate him.

That day, his mother called and said that his father missed him and wanted to see him. He never thought that his father could say such things. He was busy negotiating with a client at the time, so he rejected his mother. When I returned home two weeks later, I learned that my father had passed away. Later, when sorting out his father's belongings, he found a rusty coffee bucket. He recognized it as the can of coffee he had stolen when he was 12 years old. There is father's handwriting on the cover: A gift from his son, Christmas 1964. There is also a letter inside, which reads: Dear son, as a father, I failed very much and failed to provide you with a superior living environment, but I also have dreams. The biggest dream is to own a coffee shop and serve you leisurely. You grind and brew fragrant coffee. This wish cannot be realized. I hope your son can have such happiness. ?

The beatings and scoldings in the past became precious memories, and sadness suddenly occupied the whole heart.

His wife Shirley encouraged him and said: Since my father’s wish is to open a coffee shop, let’s fulfill his wish! Coincidentally, there was a coffee shop in Seattle that he wanted to transfer, so he resolutely resigned from his position with an annual salary of US$75,000. I contracted the café and developed it from a small workshop into a multinational company in more than 20 years.

This is the Starbucks that will become world-famous in the future, and he is the poor kid Schultz who bought his dream with action. God favors whoever works hard. As long as you work hard, you can afford your dream no matter how expensive it is.

Inspiring Stories of Persisting in Dreams Part 2: My success comes from soft persistence

On November 28, 2009, the Taiwan Golden Horse Awards were announced. Actor Huang Bo won the award for his performance in "Bullfighting" With his wonderful performance, he won the Golden Horse Best Actor award. This is the second Mainland Golden Horse Best Actor after Liu Ye. From the karaoke hall to the Golden Horse Award winner, there is an insurmountable gap. However, Huang Bo said: "Actually, I am not a particularly strong person. My success comes from my soft persistence. When a road does not work, I will Take another path. ?

1. Lonely Singing Dream

Huang Bo was born in 1974. His parents were both division-level cadres in Qingdao. Huang Bo doesn't fight or cause trouble, but his unconstrained pranks make teachers and parents miserable. Others watered the flowers with water, but he used vinegar. The reason was just to see if the flowers bloomed were sour; if he caught an ant, he could play with it all afternoon. Strong mothers are often called to school by teachers to lecture them. Qingdao No. 9 Middle School, where Huang Bo attended, is a well-known local key middle school, and Huang Bo's mother graduated from there. My mother was very good at studies back then. Several of Huang Bo's uncles also excelled in studies like his mother, and one of them later became an American expert in mapping the human genome. Huang Bo himself also knows that his poor study has become his mother's biggest regret.

Although Huang Bo is not good at studying, he can often win awards for the school or win honors for the class in terms of singing and dancing. The single-cassette tape recorder at home was the beginning of his earliest musical enlightenment. He could not stay at his desk for a moment. He could learn a song by listening to the cassette tape and could listen to it all day long in his room. At the New Year's Day party held by the school in his second year of junior high school, Huang Bo became a celebrity in the school with his song "Looking Back Again". After that, he represented the school in the "Dragon City Cup Karaoke Competition for Middle School Students" and won a third prize. In this competition, he met his good friend Gao Hu (the young actor who played Xu Zhu in the mainland version of "Dragon").

As if overnight, karaoke became popular all over the north and south. In that era, a new song and dance hall would open in the city every three to five days, which was Huang Bo's first commercial performance venue. On a hot day, red bean popsicles cost a dime each, and Huang Bo, a middle school student, could earn fifteen yuan a night singing. Knowing that Huang Bo was singing outside, his parents naturally disagreed. Like all parents in China who hope their children will succeed, it is very dangerous to not do their job while studying. ?Every time after a performance, I go back and open the door with great skill. There is always a sound when opening the door. You have to quickly twist the door open, then slowly put it back, pick it, wait a moment, come back again, and tighten it again. Every time, quietly, he turned around and closed the door. ?Of course, almost every time Huang Bo locked the door and turned around, there was a figure waiting behind him, and the next step was to be beaten.

Since then, when Huang Bo returned to the karaoke hall to sing, he took the initiative to find the manager. He would not pay for a single performance and he would save it together. When he received the labor service at the end of the month, he asked for change as much as possible. After returning home, in front of his parents, Huang Bo slowly took out a thick wad of banknotes from his pocket. At that time, his parents, whose monthly salary was only three to four hundred, realized for the first time: the singing that this stubborn child was obsessed with might really be able to support him in the future!

In addition to being a singer, he also had an amateur status at that time: Dance instructor. After watching a break dance performance that Huang Bo imitated in a performance, the principal of a local school offering dance training classes in Qingdao approached him and hired him as a part-time coach. Those two imitation performances were taught in less than two months. Huang Bo bit the bullet and bought video tapes to teach himself. After he learned it, he would teach students. Such a part-time dance coaching career lasted three days a week, from 4 to 6 pm every day. , which lasted for seven full years.

The life of a singer in the nightclub has continued. As his fame grew, Huang Bo formed a group: Blue Wind Sand. His appearance fee also increased from 15 yuan to 150 yuan. Later, his hometown in the small seaside town finally made him lose interest in the challenge, and Huang Bo started performing in Guangxi, the first stop of acupuncture.

A greenhouse was set up in an open space in the county town. Tweeters loudly advertised to the crowds of people. Simple hand-painted posters were printed with eye-catching pictures such as two-headed snakes and beautiful women. Young people in gaudy clothes were printed on them. The woman is sitting at the entrance of the greenhouse selling tickets. This scene is where Huang Bo performs. Starting from Guangxi, Huang Bo's footprints covered all provinces except Tibet, Xinjiang, and Gansu. The collective appearance fee later reached a minimum of 800 yuan per game. After receiving the money, each person sent 2,000 yuan back home. The remaining part is used as the couple's expenses, including food, accommodation and fun. During this period, he was cheated and starved, but even in the most difficult circumstances, Huang Bo still swore hungry: The difficulties in front of him are nothing, and he must persevere in his dream of singing!

In addition to singing, he also likes to write songs. The most popular ones at that time were the Four Heavenly Kings of Hong Kong. He also wrote songs specifically for Aaron Kwok and Jacky Cheung. One of the songs he wrote for Aaron Kwok, "The Kingdom of Loneliness", was picked up by someone around him. When that person offered to buy it, Huang Bo said: "No, I prepared this for Aaron Kwok." ?However, these songs could only lie quietly in the bookcase at home.

Later Huang Bo came to Guangzhou. After drifting to the south, he went to Beijing to drift to the north. At that time, there were well-known singers singing with him from both north and south. In Guangzhou they are Yang Yuying and Mao Ning, in Beijing they are Man Wenjun, Lingdian Band and so on. All of my former companions became popular, but I still could not open the door to the recording industry.

2. Click to the left, click to the right

After struggling on this road for so long without success, is it necessary to continue to persevere? Huang Bo has questions about his previous choices. Suspect. Time passed like this, and the calendar was flushed down the toilet. Huang Bo felt flustered.

When Huang Bo returned to Qingdao, he was a small boss. As the Chinese representative of a Korean shoe mold machinery factory, Huang Bo began his own attempt to join the industry.

During a business trip to South Korea, Huang Bo brought his machine to a large shoemaking company with tens of thousands of people. Without his own engineer, Huang Bo had to edit the automated operation program to demonstrate. At that time, in front of more than a dozen senior Korean experts, Huang Bo used his "one-finger Zen" to program while sweating profusely. After finally compiling it, under the expectation of everyone, Huang Bo pressed the test button, and a shoe popped out of the machine like a cannonball, disappearing without a trace. Such a scene, looking back now, seems like a comedy movie starring him, but at the time, it was his life.

Although being a small boss made some money, it did not bring him happiness other than money. Inspecting goods every day and telling people about things like stainless steel and bearings is a torture for Huang Bo, who loves music. So after receiving a call from a friend inviting him to perform, Huang Bo left the factory where he had worked for nearly two years and returned to Beijing.

While traveling in Beijing, singing in bars was Huang Bo's main source of livelihood. Fortunately, he had accumulated a small amount of savings from his previous years of business. He was accompanied by Lingdian Band, and the bar informed him to temporarily replace Man Wenjun for half a month. But the Manchu Army never returned there since. Because Man Wenjun participated in CCTV's Young Singer Competition and sang a song "Understanding You", he became famous overnight.

Huang Bo still sings in the bar. He was performing in Xi'an when he received a call from his friend Gao Hu. Gao Hu told him that there was a play and asked him to come and play a role. After learning that he was a protagonist, Huang Bo returned from Xi'an. This is a TV movie "Get in the car and let's go" shot by the movie channel.

"Get in the Car, Let's Go" was filmed for more than ten days in one day. Huang Bo, a first-time actor, often went under the camera to pick up things during the performance, and the shot was scrapped after one good shot. .

What puzzles director Guan Hu is that Huang Bo often shouts by himself during the performance: "Stop!" Then all departments stop what they are doing, and then Guan Hu's confused face stretches out from behind the monitor to question "What are you doing?" Huang Bo said, "I think my performance just now was not good. I have to do it again!" Guan Hu finally couldn't help it anymore: "It's me who says it's not good. It's not good because I say it's not good!" Did you know that only the director can call it quits?

The scene where Huang Bo's character was sent home from Beijing was filmed at Beijing West Railway Station. Huang Bo remembered the work discipline of stopping only when the director calls to stop. From the moment he turned on the phone, Huang Bo kept walking toward the station, getting further and further away. Huang Bo walked from outside the station to the station, but he still didn't hear the "stop" call. ?If you don’t shout stop, you will hit the wall!? Huang Bo looked back through the glass and saw that the crew was already loading the car. He didn't hear the director shouting to stop, and being inexperienced, he didn't know that when he reached a certain distance, the telephoto lens could no longer capture it.

After the filming was completed, "Get in the Car, Let's Go" quickly received many nominations. At the Golden Rooster Awards ceremony that year, Huang Bo, a first-time actor, sat with many top stars such as Gong Li and Stephen Chow. together. He has persisted in his dream of music for many years but has not been able to achieve satisfactory results. It was his first time to get involved in film and television and achieve such success. It was really unexpected and it also allowed him to see his potential.

After "Get in the Car and Let's Go", Guan Hu also began to prepare for his new drama, which is the TV series "Black Hole". Because the filming was in Huang Bo's hometown of Qingdao, Huang Bo happened to be at home at that time, so Guan Hu called him and called him to the crew. She handed him the script and said, "Choose a role yourself." ?

Huang Bo said: ?The role of Nie Mingyu is very good. ?

The director said: Ah, it’s pretty good. That was played by Chen Daoming, look at others. ?

?What about Liu Zhenhan?

The director said: "Tao Zeru plays the role, let's look at others." ?

?What else is there? ?

? Pick again. ?

?Tang Wenjun is good. ?Huang Bo said.

At that time, Huang Bo didn’t know how to choose roles. When he hurriedly read the script, his criterion was to see whose name appeared the most times. Tang Wenjun is a policeman. He has appeared many times, but not many scenes. Huang Bo was not in a good condition at that time. When he got up in the morning, his hair was still messy, so he went straight to the filming location. Because the character is really inconspicuous and no one cares about it. Until the end of the performance, Huang Bo saw the role he played and even wished that the play would not be broadcast. But when "Black Hole" aired, it became a hit.

After "Get in the Car and Let's Go" aired, a director even wrote a role for him, but after seeing "Black Hole", he decided to give up. They were also confused and said that the child was not working well. It turned out that the performance of "Get in the Car and Let's Go" might be more true to his true nature. After a little shaping, he was not working well.

The voices of criticism and doubt entered his ears more and more, and Huang Bo was alerted to a problem: Your good is caused by yourself, and your bad is still caused by you.

3. Soft persistence makes the Golden Horse Best Actor

Since I really have a little talent in film and television, then continue to dig into it and learn this knowledge systematically. In 2002, Huang Bo passed the dubbing major at Beijing Film Academy. In two years of professional study, Huang Bo did not take any more roles. I immersed myself in books, used my spare time to read a lot of books, and often listened to classes in other classes.

After graduation, he became a voice actor and was active in major dubbing studios in Beijing until he starred in "Crazy Stone" in 2005.

As one of Andy Lau's three major projects to support young directors at that time, "Crazy Stone" brought together a group of young film makers who had been working hard for many years. This small-budget work, which was aimed at entering theaters at the time, received continuous praise after its release, until it finally won a box office of 30 million. Director Ning Hao also took this opportunity to blossom in the film industry. Huang Bo's "Black Pi" was also known and loved by more people for his vivid performance and many "classic lines".

After "Stone", Huang Bo and Ning Hao collaborated again, taking on the leading role for the first time in the New Year film "Crazy Racing". "Racing", which invested 10 million yuan, eventually grossed over 100 million yuan at the box office. Entering 2009, Huang Bo's name frequently appears on movie posters in front of theaters. Since the beginning of the year, Huang Bo has had nearly 10 big-screen works released. At the end of November, the movie "Bullfighting" starring Huang Bo, as the only mainland production, competed at the Taiwan Film Golden Horse Awards. On November 28, 2009, the Taiwan Golden Horse Awards were announced. Actor Huang Bo became the second Mainland Golden Horse Best Actor after Liu Ye!

Although Huang Bo persisted all the way, he did not encourage one to go to the dark side. . When you have been walking on one path for a long time and have not achieved the success you want, then you need to try another path. This does not mean that you are not persistent, but it is another way to change persistence.

Looking back on the road he has traveled, Huang Bo said with emotion, "I have always been soft-minded along the way." Including my singing, including filming, I am not so stubborn. If this thing doesn't work, I have to do whatever it takes. I don't give up when I encounter difficulties. I move to the left, and I move to the right. Anyway, I am always moving forward towards the destination. . ?

Inspiring Stories of Persevering in Dreams Part 3: Working hard for your dreams

In the past few days, the company officially signed a contract with a girl and hired her as the company's screenwriter and responsible for the work at hand. A project to start soon. And this girl was just a little assistant serving tea and water in our company four years ago.

This is a story about inspiration.

Four years ago, the girl joined our company when she was about to graduate. She followed the screenwriters every day to make simple meeting minutes and handle some basic auxiliary work. It was a dispensable position with a very low salary. Whether you can stay or not depends on the boss's mood. One day the girl told me privately that she also wanted to be a screenwriter and asked me if I could participate in the project. I read what she had written before and told her that her current level was still far from the job requirements. If she really wanted to do this, she would need to put in a lot of effort and effort, and even if she did It’s also very hard work in this business. From the perspective of being responsible for her, I hope she will think clearly. After all, she is not a local. It is not difficult for her family to find a stable job in her hometown. There is no need to put in so much hard work. The girl said she understood.

After graduation, the girl did not go home to look for a job. She stayed in Beijing and persisted in writing. She would take on any suitable project as long as there was a suitable one. She never asked about remuneration, no matter how big or small the workload was. She completed them all on time and conscientiously. Although her level was still limited, she could see her improvement every time. Slowly, her first digital movie was broadcast on the movie channel, and the girl happily sent me a text message asking me to give her advice. Soon, the second, third and other participating works were broadcast on CCTV and achieved good ratings. The girl has become a qualified screenwriter, even better than my former teacher in some aspects.

Finally, the company had a new project, and I immediately decided to ask her to take charge of it, and I believed that she would do a good job because she never gave up on her dream.

Speaking of inspirational, another friend is even more legendary. More than ten years ago, after graduating from high school in Hunan, he did not go to college. After hanging around for a few years, he decided to go south alone to Guangzhou to work hard. I had no diploma and no relatives. When I first arrived in Guangzhou, I simply slept on the lawn under an overpass in the suburbs. After working in a small steel company for a period of time, he finally had the opportunity to contract a project on his own, which earned him more than 200,000 yuan. We are all very happy for him. After all, it is surprising enough to go from sleeping on the lawn to earning more than 200,000 yuan overnight. But this friend actually didn't ask for a penny. He gave all the money to the elder brother who introduced the project to repay his kindness. From then on, all the projects of the elder brother were only contracted out to this friend. I am afraid everyone can imagine the next story. The friend lived a prosperous life from then on, bought an Audi, and also bought a large villa in the suburbs of Guangzhou.

What's even more dramatic is that this friend took on a project, which was to repair the overpass where he once slept. He personally went to the construction site and told the workers to plant the lawn under the bridge to make it more comfortable. This is where I started my business, and there will definitely be people sleeping here in the future.

In today’s society, inspiration has become a fashionable term, and various job search programs on TV encourage young people to work hard for their goals. Many young people also like to talk about inspiration, but in fact, inspiration is not a simple term, but requires long-term efforts for dreams, which is mixed with tears, sweat and even unknown bitterness. A young friend once complained to me that he had not caught up with the good times and could only do such a low-level and hard job. I told him, compared with your parents, your life now is so much better. Our parents were once young. When they were our age, they couldn’t even see their dreams. No matter how many difficulties and obstacles they encountered, didn’t they keep their heads down and move forward step by step? One day, you You will find that the footprints you have made are the most precious treasure in your life. Maybe you see their current wealth and leisure, but what you should see more is the hope that has never been extinguished in their hearts over the past few decades, and everything they have sacrificed for hope.

After talking about inspirational things, let me tell you a little story that is not so beautiful. The company recently recruited a trainee screenwriter. The young man always looked ambitious and told me that he had endured a lot of hardships and would do anything for writing. But what he wrote was always unsatisfactory. The company asked me to find a way to teach him. I gave him an assignment. He watched a TV series and then wrote down the story of each episode for me. The assignment was handed in a week later. They were all copied from the Internet. I asked him why, and he said that the play was too simple and he felt that he was not meant to do this kind of work. I smiled and dismissed him. I always feel that regardless of ability, a person with eyes on his head will always struggle.

If you are still confused about your current unsatisfactory situation, my friend, please stop blaming others and there is no need to be obsessed with those heroic biographies. Take a look at the people around you who are working tirelessly for their dreams. , are the real heroes in life.