Many Olympic gold medalists when asked about their training regimen say that they saw themselves standing first place on the podium while training. They were simply reverse engineering the vision of them winning it all in their minds. Our subconscious mind is very powerful. According to NLP therapists, our subconscious mind runs 90% of the show in our thinking and behavioral patterns. When we feed into our subconscious mind and keep reaffirming visions of us succeeding, being around successful people and being on the path of service then we begin to think bigger, find ourselves around higher caliber people and start contributing in ways we couldn’t even have imagined.
Good book recommendations:
The power of positive thinking by Norman Vincent Peale
Think Big by David Shwartz
Feed Your Mind with the Thoughts of Your Soul
Our soul is truly a gift from God. When we talk about intuition, the best example I’ve gotten is that intuition is God speaking to us. It is us being guided by our soul’s purpose. When we tune it out, then we become lost in our mind and walk aimlessly in life. Think about just how many people are out there who have tuned out listening to their intuition and are just living a life without utilizing their greatest internal compass. Tony Robbins mentions that success without fulfilment is the ultimate failure.
There have been many cases of highly successful people who have undergone depression or even ended their life. One of the biggest ones is Robin Williams who comes to mind. Robin lived a very successful life, taking over the comedic scene and then becoming one of Hollywood’s highly sought after actors. His talent was gold and he ended his life by hanging himself. You must be wondering why a man who lived such a life would end it on such sad circumstances but perhaps it was because he didn’t feel fulfilled.
Near Death Experience
I’ll never forget that day on a lake near Mount Shasta on July 14, 2014. Me and a few of my friends went swimming at lake Shasta on a beautiful and bright, sunny day. I decided to jump into the water and as I got into the water, I began to panic. The water was deeper than I thought and I couldn’t grab on properly to the rocks nearby because they were smooth as ice. The tides then became stronger and pulled me away from the shore. To top it off my friends thought I was joking and they weren’t that close to me either. Eventually one friend was able to come within a hands distance to me and as our hands were able to grab onto one another a tide came and pulled me away from him. It was at that moment I energetically felt that It was my time to go and a part of me just surrendered to the universe and let go of my struggle to live. It was as if I had accepted that it was my time to go. In that very moment I remember seeing two visions. One of my mother and the other one of seeing the world. Then a voice asked me “have you helped enough people?” to which my answer was “no”. My entire life’s worth hanged onto that question: “Had I helped enough people?”. And when I answered no I felt this intense feeling of dread like I had wasted my entire life. Then I felt a hand push my back against the tide and towards the shore where my friend was able to grab onto my hand and pull me up.
What that moment had taught me was just how short life truly is. Imagine how many people die everyday who had their entire lives in front of them. Just imagine the amount of youth and brilliant lives that were overflowing in potential which now reside in the graveyard. Life is truly short and we have to make the most of it.
The Sad Story of Pure Unactualized Potential
I remember when I was 18 I was working at a department store in Canada called Winners Home sense. There was a brilliant kid from my high school who had just joined our team. He was smart, charismatic and really kind. He was 2 years my junior and I’ll never forget a conversation we had in our lunch room. I was enjoying my subway sandwich while he was heating up his $1 dollar microwaveable pasta that you get at the supermarket. He was basically saving up money to go to the Ivy leagues. He told me about his aspirations to attend either Harvard, Stanford or Oxford and become a medical doctor. I could tell by the confidence in his eyes that he would be well on his way to clout and success. The fact that he was saving up money already at 16 was a clear indication of his academic ambitions. It was about a week later that I heard from my friend that he had just passed away from a drowning incident. Him and a few of his friends were having a picnic at Lake Ontario and his best friend decided to jump into the water for a swim. All of a sudden the tides became stronger and his friend was pulled away from the shore and he decided to jump into the water and save him. They both ended up drowning and I’ll never forget his funeral. His mother was crying at the top of her lungs over his open casket. It’s a scene etched onto my heart because there truly is nothing more sad than seeing a mother weep for her fallen children. In front of me laid this casket which carried huge potential. A week before this person was just telling me about their dreams and hopes for their amazing future. All now laid to rest in that wooden box.
This story isn’t to depress you but to make you aware that our life is truly short. We can imagine just how many tragic stories of my 16 year old friend happen on a daily basis and the amazing part of my near death experience story is that I spoke to another very inspiring individual who also had the exact same visions as I did when he was dying. Kavon Massenberg was shot in the head and in our conversation he told me that he too saw his mother during his critical injury and was asked the question “have you done enough?” to which now he lives his life on the path of becoming a motivational speaker.
I don’t think it’s a coincidence I met another person who shares the exact same near death encounter as me and I advise my mentees to do the same and follow a path of service to which they can answer that question in great pride to our Creator when their time comes to go one day.
As Maya Angelou says “in the end people won’t remember you by what you did but by how you made them feel.”