A compelling future …
Have you created a compelling future for yourself? You know, something that keeps you going everyday?
I recently just heard a pretty shocking story…
A psychiatrist was asked to work with a group of HIV positive patients inside of a hospital. All whom thought that they obviously had “no” future and felt pretty hopeless.
The psychiatrist, let’s call him Ian, started off with a simple question in a one on one session with a patient. “Are you going to be dead by tea time?” “No” the HIV patient responded back.
“How about by tomorrow morning” Ian asked. HIV patient, “no”
“How about next week” Ian asked. “No” responded the patient.
“Will you be dead in 3 months” Ian asked. “No” said the HIV positive patient.
“How about in 2 years” asked Ian. “No” the patient responded.
Slowly but surely the HIV positive patient, who was certain that he had no future before, slowly began to realize that he did in fact still have some time left in his life.
What is it that Ian helped the patient realize? That there was and still is hope in his future.
By slowly breaking the blindness of a hopeless future, this patient now began to have hope for his own future over the next few days, weeks, months and coming years.
This patient obviously had a much brighter vision of his future. That vision began to become more clear to him as Ian questioned him.
To make a long story come to an end, the patient ended up with hope.
When you set out on a new path in life that you certainly are unfamiliar with, there is no doubt that you will be tried and tested to see what you are made of.
Every entrepreneur walks down this very path in his or her life. For if it wasn’t for people like you and I, (freedom seekers, business owners, marketers, entrepreneurs), there would be no hope for anybody’s future.
Economys depend on the sales of products and services by people like you and I. Anybody who thinks otherwise has got it all wrong.
See, YOU are the only one in control of YOUR future. Not the government or anyone else. You have the power to go out and create something of value for others in any marketplace.
Learn to depend more on that thing between your ears to do your thinking for you.
What business are you in? What market do you serve? Whatever it is, go out and serve it with everything you’ve got. It’s those small, day by day, incremental changes that will ultimately make the huge change that you want to see in your life.
Don’t ever give up hope for your own future or your families.
Keep going.
Don’t ever stop looking for answers. It’s all a part of the “heroes’ journey”.
My hope and prayer for you is that you re-align yourself with your hopes or dreams for your own abundant future and that you see it come to pass.
Talk soon
Nick
