Andy Andrews | Andy Andrews Interview | Andy Andrews Audio Interview
Andy Andrews is one of my most favorite interviews and it was also my first interview for My Success Gateway, LLC. Andy Andrews talks about the 7 decisions for success. Andy brings a perspective that not many people in the personal development have brought to the table. He has done a lot of his own research and discovered the nuggets where we can learn the lessons from.
Learn what it means to have a decided heart. Andy Andrews discusses fear and the heavy doses that fear that occurs in smarter people. Learn if fear is only a misuse of the creative imagination. Learn what it takes to be a leader. Andy tells a story of Joshua Chamberlin and his leadership that was a pivotal point in the history of the United States.
Andy is a student of history and is a master story teller weaving in the principals that some of the most significant leaders of the past incorporated into their success. Andy wraps up the conversation with a discussion on football and baseball and how some of the principals in sports apply to the principals of our lives. We go into the slump of future Hall of Famer Alex Rodriquez and we also talk about Tyrrell Owens and some of the struggles he encounters during the start of the 2006-2007 Dallas Cowboys season.
The interesting nugget you will glean from this conversation especially if you are an amateur or professional athlete is how to get out of the mind frick which can keep you in a funk or a slump. Having a board of directors is key to anyone’s success and Andy Andrews is a proponent of seeking advice from others.
What could this one man possibly have to say that is important enough for the Commander of the Allied Air Forces to ask his help? Why did every senior leader the United States Air Force has in Europe and the Middle East recently assemble in one room—at one time—to hear him speak?
Who is this man, that he would walk the golf course with Hall of Famer Nancy Lopez as she played her last tournament as a touring professional? Why was he invited to spend an afternoon with General Norman Schwarzkopf and his son, who was about to depart for college? What would he be asked to discuss with a ninety-one-year-old Bob Hope alone by the swimming pool in the entertainer’s back yard?
Hailed by a New York Times writer as a “modern-day Will Rogers who has quietly become one of the most influential people in America,” Andy Andrews is an internationally known speaker and novelist whose combined works have sold millions of copies worldwide. He has been received at the White House and has spoken at the request of four different United States presidents. His two-hour PBS special is entitled Andy Andrews: The Seven Decisions and is now airing nationally to incredible reviews.
Andrews lived a relatively normal life until the age of nineteen, when both his parents died—his mother from cancer, his father in an automobile accident. “I took a bad situation and made it much worse,” Andrews says with a rueful smile, referring to choices he made during this tragic period of his life. Within a span of several years, the young man found himself literally homeless (“before that was even a word!” he says), sleeping occasionally under a pier on the gulf coast or in someone’s garage.
It was at that time when Andrews asked the question that would focus his search for what would ultimately affect millions of people. The question? “Is life just a lottery ticket, or are there choices one can make to direct his future?” To find the answer, he first went to the library. There, over time, he read more than two hundred biographies of great men and women. How did they become the people they were? he wondered. Were they simply born this way? Or were there decisions made at critical junctures in their lives that led to such success? The young Andrews finally determined that there were seven characteristics that each person had in common. “What will happen,” he mused, “if I study these seven common denominators and harness them in my own life?”
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on September 22nd, 2007 at 3:43 pm
Here is a great opportunity to meet Andy Andrews in person. We are flying him to Everett Washington for two LIVE performances. 1) Mastering The Seven Decisions, a full day workshop (based upon his book, The Traveler’s Gift) (limited to 400) and, 2) An Evening With Andy Andrews at the Everett Performing Arts center (limited to 500).
Visit: http://www.AndyAndrewsEverett.com You won’t be disappointed!