Imagine the Possibilities for Change!

Imagine a world where people could get what they wanted just by dreaming it! Imagine that there were people in the world who could get what they wanted no matter what obstacles stood in their way! What kind of world would that be? Well it would be THIS ONE! And I will show you how.

 

Quick Story: There was a man who wanted to run a business. He had a dream of paying for all his family's debts and leaving some kind of legacy to his children. He wanted to be a positive example to his children and his community. He wanted to leave a large sum of money to his church and childhood schools so that they could continue to serve the city's youth and the man's family and friends well into the future. He wanted to bring his ideas to the world, so he began on a quest to accomplish these goals. He told his wife what he wanted to do and he began on the journey. But his wife did not support his ideas. She thought the ideas were noble, but completely unrealistic. She therefore began telling him that he was worthless, and that he was throwing away his college education. She said that he was brainwashed by the books he read and the people he associated with daily. And he would never be anything more than a dreamer! And there was nothing he could ever do, no amount of work that would get him what he wanted.

 

So he turned to his friends and told them his dream - and most of them laughed as if he had told them a joke. He explained that it was no joke, and some friends changed their initial response, but he found most of them talking negatively to others about his endeavors later on behind his back. It seemed that no one believed that he could do it. They basically respected him and thought that he was smart enough, but no one really believed that he would ever be more than he was right then. No one they had ever known had ever changed the world around them without hitting the lottery or something. So how could he do it just by thinking he could?

 

But the man did not believe them. He believed in himself. So with a constant strain on his marriage and all of his friendships- this constant thought that he was defying them all somehow - he forged on for years and became a great success and accomplished all of his dreams and more! His name is unimportant, but imagine that whatever computer you are using, you may be using his product today.

 

Do you think that, if he would have quit, someone else would have eventually created the computer advancements that he did?  Maybe not in the eact same way, but I believe that the advancements would have certainly been created by someone else.

 

So what is the point? This man took something that was non-existent in this world - something that he dreamed up - and put it physically into the world despite the negativity that was so intimately surrounding him.

 

Can you think of a story in your own life where you might have dreamed of doing something,  but were told by your "loved ones" and "good friends" that you couldn't do it?

 

How did it make you feel? Did you quit or try it anyway?

 

Here is the point. When we are children we watch cartoons and read children stories that teach us to dream. They teach us that there are no limits to our future. Then we grow up and learn about how our qualifications determine what jobs we can have and how our income therefore dictates which dreams we can and can't accomplish. But how did the man in the story get what he wanted despite the negativity surrounding him? How did he put an idea into physically reality despite "the reality" that surrounds us all?

 

Just plain good luck?

 

No. It is in the words of the story itself. "The man did not believe them."

 

His belief seperated his reality from the teachings of the world. THAT is how he rose above his "predisposed station in life."

 

The man realized that the teachings of society could be undone in his own mind. He could teach himself to put his own ideas into action with some planning, a lot of hard work, some networking and recruiting, some professional advisors and funding, and a never quit attitude.

 

And that is all you need as well!

 

Remember this story as we approach 2009! There are many stories like this one in the business section of your local library or bookstore. Pick one up and start teaching yourself how to change your own thinnking so you too can change your reality beginning this year - or actually, beginning right now!

 

Best Regards,

Keith