He had his life planned out. After gridiron success as a college athlete, his sights were set on the high prize of playing professional football. He was gifted with quickness, agility, and a work ethic that wouldn't quit. When doctors delivered the news that his eyesight was failing and he would later become blind, hopes of a pro career quickly faded. Everything he had worked toward and had achieved vanished.

Bestselling author of The Ultimate Gift, and 26 other book (four of which have been made into movies), Emmy award-winning, Entrepreneur of the Year, Jim Stovall shares an incredible story of how he went from dark isolation to tremendous opportunity - for a period, he had resigned himself to living a hidden life, tucked into a small room in the back of his house.

His ground-breaking A-HA! moment came when he welled up his courage and conviction and walked, as a man without sight, down his sidewalk to his mailbox. (You have to hear him give his version.)

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In spite of what others' said he couldn't do, Jim has gone on to become: 

• An International Humanitarian of the Year;
• A National Olympic weightlifting champion;
• An Emmy Award winner;
• The Founder and President of the Emmy Award-winning Narrative Television Network;
• One of the Ten Outstanding Young Americans awarded by the U.S. Jaycees;
• A National Entrepreneur of the Year;
• A recipient of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce National Blue Chip Enterprise Award.

Some of Jim's other titles: The Millionaire Map, Just Believe, and The Ultimate Financial Plan.