[Music] many times we see successful people especially celebrities and we just assumed 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 when 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 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 1990
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 the 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 dollars but at the beginning of her career she really struggled with low self-esteem even when she was becoming more and more famous I don't let the opinions of others really 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 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 really 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 gonna make another record I'm gonna make another song I'm gonna 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 gonna 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 impostor 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 woman especially is that you can have 12 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 really hard to become who she is today I want you to look in the mirror and ask yourself in 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 efforts and hard work to it to have 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 the person who is the less talented but works really hard who do you think will succeed more there
will always be someone who is more talented than you more smarter than you more beautiful than you but that thing doesn't matter what matters is how much work you put in your dreams the persistence the dedication the discipline when you're prepared to put sweat and tears and dedicate your life to become what you've always dreamed of the world will be yours because hard work beats talent every time [Music] you you you
