Successless In Seattle - Writer, Jeff Arch

Actually, 35-year-old Karate school instructor Jeff Arch was living in Virginia, had a four-year- old daughter, a one-month-old son and a terrific marriage.  But he wasn't following his dreams anymore. Jeff had always dreamed of a career in screen writing and play writing.  His initial efforts at a writing career didn't work out, so he returned to doing what he knew best in order to provide for his family.

At 4am one morning in 1989, Jeff found himself in front of the television watching an advertisement for Tony Robbins Personal Power Success Program.   He grabbed the phone and placed his order.  At first, he listened to the recordings secretly because he was self-conscious, maybe even a little embarrassed.

But Jeff recalls, "Tony was the first person - the first voice I ever heard - that didn't say you're dreaming too big.  He didn't say, 'come on, your asking for too much.'  What he said was, 'You've got to think bigger than you ever thought you could think!'  It was the first time in my life somebody gave me permission and encouragement to dream bigger than I was already dreaming."

Jeff started writing screen plays again.  The first one he wrote was well received, but the Cold War Story fell victim to bad timing when the Berlin Wall came down.  He decided he would make the next project timeless so he wrote a love story.  The story, which Jeff wrote in less than a month, and sold for $250,000.00 in less than three months, would go on to become the blockbuster movie Sleepless In Seattle.

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