What it takes to have EVERY single one of your dreams come true (thats what I have right now): 1) Be willing to risk everything to gain everything 2) It took me 14 years, homelessness, and jail, plus I had to put up with people calling me crazy for 14 years straight including my friends, family, etc, which led to multiple, evil insane asylum stays. 3) Know EXACTLY what you want...the universe is like a genie, if you say you want a million bucks, you will get a million deer running around...a prince or princess knows exactly what they want down to the last detail 4) BE ANGRY at your current circumstances because, like me, you are probably settling for average (that includes relationships). I can remember sitting in my shit cubicle in my first job out of college at Skadden and saying: this cant be it, this cant be the rest of my life: no trust fund, no prospects of advancing, etc, but then I had a vision when I was wondering around Virgin Records at the bottom of 4 Times Square. I looked at a CD and said: I wish I could own a piece of their earnings. Then it sort of spiraled out of control because I was obsessed with the vision...the ideas came so fast that I just scribbled them on paper and manically typed them up. Someone had to see them. I had the vision, but it wasnt coherent. It was anger at my current situation, 9/11, and wanting to change the world all colliding at once. I used the Skadden FedEx account and letterhead as a trojan horse to send the idea to the TV head of William Morris Agency, Edward Ryan. The manic pitch included the following: a dot-com concept, an acutal website I created where everyone was connected, Matt Damon, Inc., and a concept to have someone responsible connect the TV Networks Live. Well, someone liked it even if it was manic, and as I was getting wasted by myself at some NYC bar one night, some guy came and sat next to me....I knew it was someone important, so I coherently, yet slurring, pitched him my idea: I media commodities market where the value of the commodity was based on future media residual earnings. He smiled and slapped his hand on the counter and said: Whats your name? I said, Lawson Tree. Then he said, I will remember that name because you are going very far! 5) The next day, my parents were so worried about my behavior and me getting fired, that they had my friend, Trey Packard, escort me on a plane home. That day, my adventure began. I was definetly highly manic and I went on a jog, but it was more of a sprint. As I approached a hotel near my parents house (listening to Rage Against the Machine on my headphones), I knew this was the right thing to do: Throw a large rock through the window of a Mercedez. I promptly went to jail for the second time in my life....and that was all when I was 22. Now, I was recently invited by Sofia Coppola to be an Actor/Writer/Director and American Zoetrope, her studio founded by Francis Ford Coppola and George Lucas. In addition, I will have over $500 million in capital from trading, yes, Media Commodities by 2017, which will be used to start my multi-billion dollar conglomerate: World Peace, Inc. So, was it worth being called crazy by everyone and losing friends because of it? Abosultely. Did my faith persevere over naysayers and I won? Yes. Am I now homeless, in jail, or in a mental institute? No. Am I highly connected? Yes. If I didnt have the Talent or, more importantly, the Perseverance, would I have made it? No. Did I make it from cubicle shit to here? Yes. Do you have Talent and Perseverace? Then you can make it too. nuff said. I win.
Posted on: Sun, 21 Dec 2014 06:38:39 +0000