Lou Tice--the power of belief
I went to a graduation of a friend of a friend. I was thinking that I should have been feeling a little weird because I wasn't friends with the person that was graduating, but I didn't at all. Lou Tice, the founder of the Pacific Institute, was the commencement speaker. He had a really good message. It was so inspiring that I was frantically e-mailing myself little nuggets of his speech, but then I remembered that I had my tape recorder so I taped the rest of his speech.
Some of the nuggets include:
It's all about belief and how u speak 2 urself
U act like the person who u believe u r and it has little 2 do with ur potential
U cant do it cause u say u cant. Successful pple tell themselves they r okay and good
Accept that u r good. Have good self efficacy
Dont back ur aspiration up 2 where u r now. Goals r supposed 2 b bigger than us
Set goal and grow into it
Gotta have goals or u die. Or u do what others want u 2 do
U r drawn to what u look. Whats around u is only temporary and not real. Whats real is n ur mind
When u dont meet ur dreams u dont face pple
You are not the same person that you was two years ago. Ride on other persons belief until you get your own.
He went on to illustrate how our focus can help or hinder us:
When little children are trying to learn to ride a bike, in the middle of the sidewalk they will see a rock and not want to hit the rock so they focus on the rock. Then smacko they run right into the rock. Then they get mad at the rock.
You are drawn to what you think about so quite hanging around pple that can't do it and are negative thinkers. All they are doing is creating a reality that they are wallowing in. So you know when u see the rock, you look the way you want to go, look around the rock, around the obstacle. Do not look around and see what you see and tell yourself that it's real because it's not real, it's only temporary. What's real is the stuff that's made up in your mind, the dream.
Lets suppose you have a relative or friend who has cancer. Wouldn't it be awful if they kept telling themselves that they had cancer. But what if they told themselves that they were well and they had cancer. That sounds dumb. Shouldn't you wait until you were well to say that. The way your mind thinks is that when you are sick you've got to think you are well and you take yourself from the sick state up into the well state. You've got to be tough enough because the world around you will be trying to tell you the truth from their point of view. So you in your own mind you have to always see yourself as the dream that you want to be. Don't let anyone try to take your dream away, your hope away. That's how strong your mind is.
Look at a race car driver. You know what they do when their car is spinning out of control and they are heading towards the wall. They don't focus on the wall, they look at the recover point because if you look at the wall you are going to hit the wall. Think about what you want and discipline yourself. Stop affixing yourself around those pple who are, "be happy about where you are." You start thinking about things you don't have and it'll make you sick. You are supposed to have big dreams. What happens if you don't achieve them, you grow up and you can't sleep and you don't face pple. So if you don't want to feel that way, then don't set goals. You are tough enough to be resilient. You're capable enough.
He went on to explain how important belief is by using an illustration of marriage:
You have two ppl who are single and they go through a right of passage like a wedding ceremony and the minister, rabbi, priest ask them, "do you take this woman to be..." and it's one vow, affirmation, statement he'll say, "I do." and he ask, "do you that this man to be..." and she says, "I do" and the then this person granted by the state or the holy church says by the power vested in me I pronounce you man and wife and they go on to believe that they are married. Now you believe that you are married for the rest of your lives. You come in knowing that you are single and you go out believing that you are married.
He went on to say that the graduates are not the same as they came in. They are stronger, smarter, and more capable of doing what they need to do.
It was such a really good speech. It validated a lot of what I do with myself. I always tell myself that this time next week, or this time next month, or this time next year.... I always look at myself in the future. I don't want to focus on now because now is just my foundation. I'm using now to get to where I want to go. I like the fact that he talked about the power of belief. I am just now starting to believe that I'm a person of worth and that I have something to offer. I'm grateful for the boost that he gave me.
Some of the nuggets include:
It's all about belief and how u speak 2 urself
U act like the person who u believe u r and it has little 2 do with ur potential
U cant do it cause u say u cant. Successful pple tell themselves they r okay and good
Accept that u r good. Have good self efficacy
Dont back ur aspiration up 2 where u r now. Goals r supposed 2 b bigger than us
Set goal and grow into it
Gotta have goals or u die. Or u do what others want u 2 do
U r drawn to what u look. Whats around u is only temporary and not real. Whats real is n ur mind
When u dont meet ur dreams u dont face pple
You are not the same person that you was two years ago. Ride on other persons belief until you get your own.
He went on to illustrate how our focus can help or hinder us:
When little children are trying to learn to ride a bike, in the middle of the sidewalk they will see a rock and not want to hit the rock so they focus on the rock. Then smacko they run right into the rock. Then they get mad at the rock.
You are drawn to what you think about so quite hanging around pple that can't do it and are negative thinkers. All they are doing is creating a reality that they are wallowing in. So you know when u see the rock, you look the way you want to go, look around the rock, around the obstacle. Do not look around and see what you see and tell yourself that it's real because it's not real, it's only temporary. What's real is the stuff that's made up in your mind, the dream.
Lets suppose you have a relative or friend who has cancer. Wouldn't it be awful if they kept telling themselves that they had cancer. But what if they told themselves that they were well and they had cancer. That sounds dumb. Shouldn't you wait until you were well to say that. The way your mind thinks is that when you are sick you've got to think you are well and you take yourself from the sick state up into the well state. You've got to be tough enough because the world around you will be trying to tell you the truth from their point of view. So you in your own mind you have to always see yourself as the dream that you want to be. Don't let anyone try to take your dream away, your hope away. That's how strong your mind is.
Look at a race car driver. You know what they do when their car is spinning out of control and they are heading towards the wall. They don't focus on the wall, they look at the recover point because if you look at the wall you are going to hit the wall. Think about what you want and discipline yourself. Stop affixing yourself around those pple who are, "be happy about where you are." You start thinking about things you don't have and it'll make you sick. You are supposed to have big dreams. What happens if you don't achieve them, you grow up and you can't sleep and you don't face pple. So if you don't want to feel that way, then don't set goals. You are tough enough to be resilient. You're capable enough.
He went on to explain how important belief is by using an illustration of marriage:
You have two ppl who are single and they go through a right of passage like a wedding ceremony and the minister, rabbi, priest ask them, "do you take this woman to be..." and it's one vow, affirmation, statement he'll say, "I do." and he ask, "do you that this man to be..." and she says, "I do" and the then this person granted by the state or the holy church says by the power vested in me I pronounce you man and wife and they go on to believe that they are married. Now you believe that you are married for the rest of your lives. You come in knowing that you are single and you go out believing that you are married.
He went on to say that the graduates are not the same as they came in. They are stronger, smarter, and more capable of doing what they need to do.
It was such a really good speech. It validated a lot of what I do with myself. I always tell myself that this time next week, or this time next month, or this time next year.... I always look at myself in the future. I don't want to focus on now because now is just my foundation. I'm using now to get to where I want to go. I like the fact that he talked about the power of belief. I am just now starting to believe that I'm a person of worth and that I have something to offer. I'm grateful for the boost that he gave me.
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