The Influence of Brian Tracy and Napoleon Hill upon my future plans

These two men I have mentioned in the title are highly successful businessmen and motivational speakers with philosophies on perseverance hard work and success that completely revitalised my drive for success over the half-term period.

Brian Tracy:

A man who failed to graduate from High School in the U.S. and went on to amass a net worth of over $20 million dollars through his chain of motivational seminars and his position as CEO of Brian Tracy International. His remarkable stories and philosophies on personal success have provided me with something that was severely lacking in my work up to this point "personal vision".

Napoleon Hill:

The first man to ever examine and write and about personal success in individuals, Napoleon Hill compiled his writings with the aid of 500 of the most successful entrepreneurs of the time including but not limited to Henry Ford, Andrew Carnegie, Alexander Graham Bell, and Thomas Edison. His inspirational first book Think and Grow Rich was a tantalising and highly inspirational read that alongside my Brian Tracy materials has given me fresh insight into how I can succeed and apply these techniques to my life.

Why am I telling you this?

There are many principles that I have adapted from these men that have considerably enhanced my quality of life and allowed me to focus on my career goals and objectives. But there are many factors within my control that I have yet to work to my advantage. One of these is our very own Foundation department. A tremendous hotbed of creative talent that I've noticed is not being utilised to its full potential. My own ambition is to create every type of actors' medium through my own efforts and to in effect become my own producer, but I can't do it alone.


This course has the potential to produce outstanding work and to give everyone on it a boundless horizon in which to discover personal ambition and to utilise the natural talents of everyone on board. But if this is to happen reforms will be needed. My goal is to achieve my ambitions and to lift the spirits quantity and quality of the people on this course and the work they produce from the philosophies I've learnt from these highly successful and respected men and I have every confidence I can do it If I stay true to my integrity and personal vision. This I believe is my first great challenge on the long road to personal success that will see me ascend and go on to live a happy and contented life living and doing the things that I love and cherish. I guarantee if allowed to institute reform and share these radical ideas with my colleagues in Media and throughout the whole of foundation it will improve every area of work and encourage boundless creativity, an unfledging strong work ethic, efficiency and productivity, self belief, personal ambition, mutual co-operation and networking, and who knows perhaps it will even improve the quality of all of our lives.  

Film a Month: January

The first in what will hopefully be a succession of monthly dramas has so far proved to be an unprecedented success. Our drama has so far reached production stage meaning that my role within the group has already contributed significantly. My feelings about the project were initially mixed as I did not understand what the purpose of the initial concept was and I questioned its source material. Though I persevered and concentrated my efforts on the narrative until it was developed into something that I felt extremely proud of.

My Role within the group: 

I was one of the groups' 3 script writers and oversaw all the narrative aspects of the film, It was refreshing to be able to work on a drama this time round as my previous screenplay vodka trees was a satirical comedy. My first task was to sit down with the scriptwriters and bring the characters and narrative meaning and life. My background in theatre served me very well here as I was readily able to invent dramatic situation and to create character in lines where there previously was none. The initial script though providing solid foundations for development did not initially seem to reflect character or situation. I and my narrative colleague miss Miranda Myles thusly set about going over the screenplay and hiding the "invention" that created story and character and giving the characters a life beyond the page so to speak.

The results of our efforts were startling, my partners' profound understanding of human nature and my own sensibilities created a proud piece of storytelling that I and the production team simply can't wait to see brought to life.

Current progress of the Drama:

As of today the drama is in the filming stage of production, I regularly receive updates surrounding progress and current initiatives and objectives, and when I say regular I mean REGULAR. The advent of facebook means that the group is in contact 24/7 at all hours of the day (on many occasions I've been on walks and had my playlist continually interrupted by progress). Over the weekend we had a test shoot of the drama at the location and the results were very promising indeed:



      This was the first of our test shoot photographs, as you can see aesthetic qualities of the film (though primitive and simple at this stage) have been given firm foundations for continued development.  The following shots bellow should give an impression of the shot composition and aesthetic qualities the production team would like to bring to the film. 

Having worked on the narrative of the film I feel it is my responsibility to oversee the creation of the story and to insure the integrity of the writers' vision is upheld. Overall I am very optimistic about this production and up to this point I am delighted to say that this project has thus far been an unprecedented success and has given me a firm blueprint for my proposed reforms to foundation.