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Who were you the day you were born? Who were you the day you were born is a question I ask everyone in the audience when I'm speaking to a group looking for personal motivation. The day we were born the possibilities for all of us to achieve anything to our hearts desire were endless. It was only after years of "other people" telling us we were too tall, too short, not fast or smart enough, and so on, these endless possibilities dwindled down to a hand full of maybes. In many cases these "other people" may have thought they were protecting us from disappointment. I'm convinced that if these "other people" had any idea how much their words hurt us they wouldn't have dreamed of saying them in the first place. For example, if every time Bob hit Ted, Bob felt the pain, Bob would stop hitting Ted, I'm sure of it! Imagine for example, after you finally work up the encouragement to tell your parents you have plans to go to college to peruse a medical degree. Your parents feel the pain and disappointment that you feel when they tell you that they don't believe you have the aptitude for such a difficult degree to obtain, and therefore should set your sights a little lower. Imagine several years of other people working so hard to convince you that you have limitations. Visualize all that negative reinforcement as a bag of stones you carry on your back everywhere you go. How big would that bag of stones be? I call this bag of stones our backpack of life. As you go through life's journey being discouraged by other people, each time someone feels the need to tell you why you shouldn't pursue a dream or an ambition, it adds a pebble to your backpack. These pebble's that have been slowly added to your backpack over a period of 10, 20, 30, 40, years or more has become enormous and extremely heavy. How do we rid ourselves of all of this negative weight weighting us down and keeping us from going after our dreams? How do we return back to who we were the day we were born? First and foremost in order to move on to the new, you must forgive those "other people". Don't give your personal power away. These folks have no idea that you're carrying all that weight around with you, let it go! A very wise man said "forgive them for they know not what they have done". Second, in order to move forward and pursue the greater things that life has to offer you, you must also forgive the past, and forgive yourself. We could spend a life time pondering on the, coulda, shoulda, woulda. Let it all go and move into the here and now. If you can accomplish that you're ready to take the next step. Starting tomorrow morning, when you wake up I want you to sit up and say "it's a glorious day filled with love opportunity and potential". Next, say these words out loud, I have the Power, I have the Power, I have the Power! I am great, I am beautiful, People love me, I make a difference, I make things happen I am a genius, I know it sounds corny to you at first but there is a method to the madness. That madness is our minds don't tell us what to do, "our wish is their command"! In other words our minds job is to validate what we tell it. For example: I say it's a glorious day filled with love, opportunity, and potential. My mind goes right to work to validate what I have just told it. The mind comes back with the validation. It is a glorious day, and you do have opportunities available, and yes there's is the potential for something great to happen. On the other hand I say, I'm so tired, my back hurts, and I don't fell well. Again, my mind goes right to work to validate what I have just told it. The mind comes back with validation. Yes you are tired, and your back does hurt, why don't you stay home today? Our minds are an endless storage house of information waiting to validate what we ask of it. If you request positive feedback from your mind it only knows how to validate what you have asked of it as true. The same also holds true for negative feedback. Choose not to request negative feedback for your mind to validate. Remember, we all tend to move in the direction of our dominate thoughts. I will expand on this in the November update. If you are interested in having me speak before a group, class, club, etc, on personal power and reaching for more. My time and what I have to share is free, I only ask that you cover the cost of my travel and lodging. |