Last week I happened to be watching Deal or No Deal on the TV. Yes, I know what you're thinking...but that aside, it was an amazing example of the power of the mind and how anything is possible.
The player selected in that episode was Peter, a man in his 30's recovering from a serious motorbike accident in which he'd suffered major spinal injuries. After spending several months in hospital he'd finally been told by the specialists that he'd never walk again.
Yet this same man, only a few months later, was now taking his first walk unaided in public. And when he later went on to win £5000 said that his walk was worth much, much more.
So how come, after such a prognosis from the specialists, he was able to do this? Well in his words, "When I heard them say that [I wouldn't walk again], I just didn't believe them..... I guess when everyone tells you there's nothing they can do, you just dig deep"
Here was a man who really did choose to believe that something more was possible. And as the credits began to roll, his parting words to anyone else who might be struggling were "Don't give up.....Get up"
Too often, we can be unaware of our beliefs and allow limited thinking to influence our lives. Yet when we choose to pay attention, that's when we have the opportunity to reshape our thinking and create all kinds of new possibilities.
Decide today, to believe in what you really want ;-)
And remember "Live out of your imagination, not your history" Stephen Covey
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