Pay No Notice to Your Critics
Created by Jimmie Burroughs
Critics related Tim Teabow wouldn’t get a D1 grant but he did anyway; they announced he wouldn’t win the Heisman trophy but he did anyhow; they revealed he would not be a first round pick but he was; they exclaimed he would not be a NFL QB but he is and they announced he wouldn’t be a winner, but they were all wrong.
Almost every day critics are criticizing Teabow, pronouncing he is not that great of a football player. What are the facts? Just like one of his predecessors, John Elway, Teabow took a let down team and started winning games. Some say he is no comparison to Elway. Is that actually true? How does Teabow’s first 8 games compare to Elway’s first 8 games? It’s not even close. Tebow tops Elway in every class including 4th quarter comebacks that Elway was best at…. Teabow’s critics need to think before they speak and check the facts. Check it for yourself.
If you hear your critics, they may bury you alive. Our critics are sometimes those nearest to us, who say we can not do something or be something and should give up trying. A.P. Giannini is the lasting evidence of not listening to critics; he’s the real life “George Bailey”. He first set up the Bank of Italy at San Francisco, Ca; well, here’s the story:
A. P. Giannini was born in 1870, San Jose, CA and Died: 1949, San Mateo, CA. Giannini’s elders were Italian immigrants to the United States , originally from near Genoa , Liguria . They were poor and un-educated. Giannini started his business career by pushing a banana cart up and back down the streets of San Francisco. One day he shared his dream to build a finance establishment with his folks; they giggled at him and told him to stick to what he knew, selling produce. However nothing was about to deter him from his dream, not family or friends, critics, or anything else.
He attended Heald College, in San Francisco, California. After university his is first occupation was as a commission merchant and produce dealer for farms in the Santa Clara Valley. In that position he found established banks unwilling to take on his or the farmers business.
Striving to fill a need, Giannini opened the Bank of Italy in a previous San Francisco bar on October 17, 1904. Deposits on that first day totaled $8,780. An early difficulty to conquer was the San Francisco quake of 1906 when 80% of San Francisco was destroyed along with over 3,000 deaths, and from 200,000-300,000 of the city’s 410,000 population were left destitute . Nevertheless the quake really helped Giannini gain something of a loan monopoly.
Giannini bank building was devastated by the quake, so after the quake he rummaged through the rubble and found more than 1,000,000 dollars, which he moved to his home outside of the fire section in then-rural San Mateo ; there he kept it concealed underneath rubbish in a borrowed rubbish cart. The raging fires severely heated the fire explanation vaults of other large banks which had the money in them. Opening them immediately would ruin the cash, so they needed to be kept closed for weeks. Due to this, Giannini was one of the few who were able to provide loans at the time.
Giannini was compelled to run his bank from a plank across two barrels in the street for a period. He made loans on a handshake (because most had lost all they’d) to anyone that was interested in rebuilding. Years after, he would recount with pride that each single loan was repaid.
Through the years Giannini merged his bank with other small banks and ultimately in 1928 he merged with Los Angeles B. O. A. From there the bank expanded across the U. S..
Today we see the fruit of this one man’s dream and his determination to reach it; it is known as” Bank of America”, the largest fiscal institution in the world. A. P. Giannini’s motto was truth, and that is. What he built his name on; He thought in being fair and truthful in coping with people and thought it might bring him success, which it did both in the produce business and later in his bank holdings.
Although Giannini’s banks were worth millions, he never became a made man because he refused to do so. He believed it would cause him to lose touch with the working class which was his objective to help. He gave big quantities of money away, and when he died in 1949, his assets were just over $500,000. The point of the story is, if he had listened to his critics, even his buddies and family, he would never have achieved much of anything.
Bishop Milton Wright sternly wrote round the turn of the 20th century, “Only angels are designed to fly, and not a man!”
Those words were considered to be the gospel to several in that day. But not so for 2 young men in their thirties who were conscientiously building a flying machine on a sandy beach at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. These 2 bros proved Bishop Wright to be wrong when their makeshift flying machine became airborne and flue for some 127 feet.
Who were these two younger guys? But of course it was Orville and Wilber Wright, those 2 famous bros who just happened to be the sons of Bishop Milton Wright, who once sternly announced that this was not possible and could not be done.
If you have folks who query your dreams and criticise your plans, relax because that is the common denominator for all who have great hopes.
Conclusion:
Pay no heed to your critics; they’ll tell you that it’s not possible to ever reach your dreams? That is what they told Tim Teabow, A. P. Giannini, the Wright brothers, Thomas Edison, Sam Walton and many others. Don’t pay any attention to them. Improve your abilities, “If you need an average life, then just have average abilities; if you’d like to have a remarkable life of liberty, you should develop exceptional skills.” Jonathon Budd. Dream your dreams, take action and succeed. Don’t forget what Jim Rohm expounded, “You attract success by the individual you become.” Many successful folks as a rule are also great folk.
About the author: Jimmie Burroughs is a motivational speaker and writer who has been involved in teaching Christian Personal Development for at least 30 years. He’s a dedicated believer in Jesus Christ, and considers helping folks to become their absolute best thru personal expansion is his primary focus in life. His website contains over 600 articles on preparing yourself for success thru personal development and the things which go with private development. His writing centres on the truth instead of fluff that just teases the ears.
