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A Business Lesson For Mom Entrepreneurs From the Musical South Pacific

by Britt Michaelian

Yesterday, I got off the plane from Blog World (blogging about this tomorrow) and immediately went to the Orange County Performing Arts Center for a showing of South Pacific.  The acting was amazing, but the singing was even better and my father, my daughters and I left the show with big smiles on our faces and talking about the song below.  What I didn’t expect was to discover a business lessons for mom entrepreneurs like us in this wonderful musical.

Why do you think the business lesson in this song is (or are there a few)?

Please leave your thoughts in the comments…

Bloody Mary:
Happy talk, keep talkin’ happy talk,
Talk about things you’d like to do.
You got to have a dream,
If you don’t have a dream,
How you gonna have a dream come true?

Talk about the moon floatin’ in the sky
Lookin’ at a lily on the lake;
Talk about a bird learnin’ how to fly.
Makin’ all the music he can make.

Happy talk, keep talkin’ happy talk,
Talk about things you’d like to do.
You got to have a dream,
If you don’t have a dream,
How you gonna have a dream come true?

Talk about a star lookin’ like a toy
Peekin’ through the branches of a tree;
Talk about the girl, talk about the boy
Countin’ all the ripples on the sea.

Happy talk, keep talkin’ happy talk,
Talk about things you’d like to do.
You got to have a dream,
If you don’t have a dream
How you gonna have a dream come true?

Talk about the boy sayin’ to the girl:
“Golly, baby, I’m a lucky cuss”
Talk about the girl sayin’ to the boy:
“You an’ me is lucky to be us!”

Happy talk, keep talkin’ happy talk,
Talk about things you’d like to do.
You got to have a dream,
If you don’t have a dream
How you gonna have a dream come true?

If you don’t talk happy,
And you never have dream,
Then you’ll never have a dream come true!

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  • Anonymous

    Give up? Of course you figured it out! It is SO important for us all to have dreams so that we can follow our passions. Life is about love, learning and experiences, but without taking the time to focus on what you REALLY want to do with your life, we cannot fully live.

    If you are reading this right now, it means that there is a dream inside of you that is waiting to emerge. Do you know what it is? What can you do TODAY to take one step toward making that dream a reality?

  • http://www.aliciadunams.com Alicia Dunams

    “Abracadabra Principle – What you say, you create!” (from GoalDigger.com)

  • Anonymous

    Sounds like a book title to me ;) Thanks Alicia!

  • http://www.aliciadunams.com Alicia Dunams

    It’s the first chapter of my book, and one of the basis of creating success in any area of your life. Abracadabra means “What you say you create.” Essentially, you are creating your reality with your tongue. Try that one on the kiddie-winks!