You Don't Have To Be Blind To See

You Don't Have To Be Blind To See, by Jim Stovall
subtitle: Find and Fulfill Your Destiny Regardless of Your Circumstances

Jim Stovall, a Christian businessman, desires that everyone should fulfill their destiny regardless of health, finances, or any other excuse we wish to use to keep
from achieving a fulfilling life and/or career. In challenging us to that end he tells his own story of how he was born with sight and gradually went blind. He tells of the challenges and struggles he went through while going blind, and the challenges he meets daily, his faith in God. But also, that the challenges are, in most ways, pretty much the same as the challenges that we are met with each day. The difference was his faith, his motivation and his attitude. Plus, he did have to add extra effort.

Jim Stovall went on to become an Emmy winner for building a television company that enabled blind people to “watch” television. He built a successful business at which he enjoys working.

Here is a quote from page 235, “…[V]irtually everybody else on the planet is going to think your idea is stupid. A few close friends or family members may embrace your idea, but they may embrace it only because it is important to you and not because they think that your idea or your dream is the greatest idea or dream they have ever encountered. … Prepare to face the hard, cold reality that nobody is going to be a continual source of motivation. You are going to have to become your own source of motivation.”

“Candidly evaluate why you do what you do.” “Choose to be a positive person. … Stay positive. Even if you fail, look for the lesson learned and apply it to your life.”

This book is staying on my bookshelves.


278 pages, easy reading.
ISBN-10: 0-7852-7737-4