Many times we see successful people, especially celebrities, and we just assume that they were blessed and they got lucky. But many times, that’s not the case. Like everybody else, they struggled. They had failures and disappointments. They were judged and bullied. Nobody believed in them. In this motivational success story. You’ll see that at the end of the day, it doesn’t matter if other people don’t believe in you or your talents. Only hard work pays off. You’ll see how Jennifer Lopez went from a homeless girl with low self-esteem to one of the most influential celebrities in the world.
Jennifer Lopez was born in the Bronx and lived in a very small apartment when she was just five years old. She began taking singing and dancing lessons. In her final year in high school, she was cast in a low-budget movie. And it was then that she realized that she wanted to become a famous movie star. But to please her parents, she put her dream on hold for a while and went to College. But she dropped out after one semester and decided that it’s time to chase her dream.
And nothing will stop her
When she told her parents that she wanted to become a movie star, she didn’t get the support she was hoping for. Her parents insisted that it was a really stupid idea and that no Latinos did that because of the different opinions. Jennifer Lopez moved out of their family home, determined to become a star. It didn’t take long to prove her mother wrong. My mom and I butted heads. I didn’t want to go to College. I wanted to try dance full time, so she and I had a break.
I started sleeping on the sofa in the dance studio. I was homeless, but I told her, this is what I have to do. This was not an easy period of her life. She struggled badly in the early days as a dancer, making no money whatsoever. I remember only getting to have one piece of pizza every day when I was a dancer. That’s how I lived. I did that for a couple of years. Before I got my first big job. I wouldn’t trade it for the world for me.
Coming from that struggle, this is a dream come true for me. I don’t say that lightly. In. After a period of work as a dancer and an actor in some musicals, she won a national competition and earned her role as one of the fly girls in the comedy series In Living Color. Today, Jennifer Lopez is one of the most famous entertainers in the world. She is an incredibly talented singer, dancer, actor, producer, and fashion designer. She has been in over 30 movies, has eight studio albums, and won many awards with record sales of 80 million.
She is the most influential Hispanic performer in the United States
In 2012, Forbes ranked her as the most powerful celebrity and the 38th most powerful woman in the world. Her net worth is $400 million. But at the beginning of her career, she struggled with low self-esteem. Even when she was becoming more and more famous. I don’t let the opinions of others influence how I think about myself. And that took a long time because, in the early part of my career, I did. And it made me feel really bad about myself.
I’m killing it. And everybody else, like, she can’t sing. She can’t dance, she can’t act. She’s just some pretty face or her body’s big or whatever they were saying about me. And I started thinking, yeah, that’s true. And it hurt me for a long time. But she didn’t let the voice of other people suffocate the voice inside her. And she didn’t give up. I couldn’t allow myself to let that become who I was. I was like, no, I’m going to make another record. I’m going to make another song.
I’m going to make another movie. I’m a great actress. I’m a great singer, a great dancer. I’m great at this stuff. And I’m going to keep going. And I did. And that’s all I did. I just kept going. And I just started working harder and harder than everybody else. I started believing in myself. I started believing in the fact that I wasn’t an imposter, that I wasn’t fake. Positive self-talk and hard work helped motivate her. When her confidence was really low, I feel very proud that I’ve survived as long as I have in this business.
At this point in my life, I’m trying to give myself more credit
It’s hard when people are telling you that you’re not good at things or saying, why is she successful? You get a lot of that. When you’re a successful woman, you don’t get that as much when you’re a man. The thing about people women, especially, is that you can have twelve people telling you you’re amazing, but that one person kind of putting you down. That’s the voice that sticks in your head. Then you finally go, Wait, I’m not lying.
I’ve been doing this a long time. This is not a mistake. I worked hard to be here. And you know what? Congratulations to myself. Not in an arrogant way by any means. It’s like you’re doing good, baby. Give yourself a break. Jennifer Lopez is one of the best motivational success stories. As a young singer and actress, she was told she would never make it. She was constantly being told to give up on her dreams because she’s not good enough. But she chose to believe in herself and worked hard to become who she is.
Today. I want you to look in the mirror and ask yourself, at what point in your life you stopped believing in yourself and you stopped chasing your dream because you thought you’re not talented enough, not good enough. Do you think that only being talented at something makes you a successful person? No, you can achieve anything in your life. If you’re willing to put effort and hard work into it, having a natural talent in something is amazing and it’s very useful in life. Don’t get me wrong.
But if you rely only on your talent, you will fail
If you have a person who is very talented but doesn’t work hard and a person who is less talented but works hard.
Who do you think will succeed more? There will always be someone more talented than you, smarter than you, more beautiful than you. But that thing doesn’t matter. What matters is how much work you put into your dreams. The persistence, the dedication. The discipline.
When you’re prepared to put sweat and tears on and dedicate your life to becoming what you’ve always dreamed of.
The world will be yours because hard work beats talent every time you.