Your Mindset

“The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice
what we are for what we could become.” - Charles Du Bos

What is your personal core message?

If you had only three minutes to share with a stranger what makes you tick, what topic would you choose to talk about? When you were younger, what were the kinds of things you thought about? Imagine laying on your childhood bed, looking out the window in a rosy daydream. What did you pretend your future to look like? Who did you long to become?

 Before Mastin Kipp hit the big-time as a celebrity blogger, he was a 28-year-old unemployed recovering drug addict with gout. Living in an 8’ x 8’ backyard pool house that belonged to his ex-girlfriend’s parents, he recalls the day he asked his Creator why he was living in such a small space.

This is the size of your faith, was the answer he got back.

We can’t ask from the Universe what we don’t think we deserve. Just because we think the ingredients of our lives should be different (happier, healthier, easier), if we don’t actuallybelieve we are worthy of these things, and if we don’t create the basket for all of these things to fall into, they won’t appear.

Whatever we want is already out there.If we’re able to envision it, it’s already created. We just need to experiment with the combination - the ingredients (or action steps) - that it will take to breathe LIFE into our vision. What if the recipe for your amazing Life is already written and is just waiting for you to mix the ingredients together?

American poet Henry David Thoreau put it best:

"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost;

                         that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them."

Did you know that The Beatles were rejected by a record label and told they had no future in show business? At 30 years old, Steve Jobs was fired from the company he started. Walt Disney was fired from a newspaper for lacking imagination. Oprah Winfrey was demoted from her news anchor job and told she wasn't fit for television. J.K. Rowling’s first Harry Potter book was rejected by 12 publishing houses. Albert Einstein was told by his teachers that he wouldn’t amount to much. Here are even more successful people who failed at first.

I once worked with a man whose daughter attended an elementary school up through fourth grade. Hopeville School was old, ashen, and badly in need of repair. Many teachers looked defeated, and the kids ran amok. “Yet when Erica grew older, she would come up with these delusional memories of how wonderful it was, when in fact it was just a dumpy old school,” my friend Tom gaped to me at the time.

The beauty of these stories is that all of these people beat to their own drum.

They held fast to a positive mindset, no matter what anyone around them tried to make them believe about themselves. Our world stage was forever changed by countless acclaimed pioneers who ignored their naysayers, kept true to their visions, and transformed the lives of millions - all by remaining devoted to the higher vision they held for themselves.

In Erica’s case, her refusal to see nothing but illumination and goodness around her when she was younger ultimately created a childhood love story for her soul.

Our mindset, over time, will always be the master designer of our world.

~Thanks to Rosa Conti