“Your mind can only hold one thought at a time, make it a positive and constructive one.”
Shalini Verma, Indian Life Coach
The problem in Japan and in the world isn’t that opportunity doesn’t exist or is diminishing. The problem is that we are unable to focus long and hard enough to turn our pie-in-the-sky, castle-building notions into warm, soft bundles of cash and happiness.
Just as a focused effort to make a delicious meal leads to satisfaction and praise by others, so will all our well-hatched dreams turn into reality if we follow the recipe of our design and not forget to turn on the range of possibility thinking.
I have been told about and experienced the discomfort that many Japanese feel when possibility thinking is brought up in casual conversation. If I suggest to a Japanese person that there is absolutely nothing bad about wanting to be great and aspiring to be rich, their eyes often head south because they have been trained that safety and familiarity are preferable to risk.
Yet as I continue to paint images of a “better you” in their mind, slowly they begin to melt. Maybe it’s my charismatic speaking style, but I don’t believe that’s why they drop their defense.
They drop it because they secretly wonder what life could and would be like without the cultural chains attached.
As one of my mentors, Bob Proctor, says, “If you can see it it in your mind, you can hold it in your hand.”
Nobody is going to accomplish what you can. Why not throw away the self-imposed chains of mediocrity and discover just how great you can be?
I’m on your team. Let’s grow to fantabulous heights together.
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