Part 2

Change your thinking and change your life

The best way to predict your future is to invent it (for yourself) - Alan Kay
It is possible to become your dream!!
In Part One of this Presentation I gave you my Six Steps to realizing your dream and, I hope that at least some of them made good sense to you.
For this Second Part, maybe I should just go through the formalities, make a few general remarks and encourage you to make your dream come true by utilizing those Six Steps. But, permit me to leave you with a powerful concept that will help to ensure that those six steps work even better for you. It is this:
“If you change your way of thinking, you will change the quality of your life”

This is on the authority of Dr. William James, 1871-1942, who is generally regarded as the father of psychology in the USA.  It means that you must begin to believe and act out all the following

1. you already have, at no cost to you, the

greatest source of power in the world – your mind.
Please begin to use it with the six steps to your dream that I have just outlined to you

1. the book “The magic of Believing” says “You

            are the product of your own thoughts.  What you believe yourself to
            be – you are” Believe and start thinking about, and seeing your own
            big picture of the ‘future you’

©         Shirley Chisholm, the late American civil rights politician who told her poor and always complaining constituents – “You do not make economic progress by always complaining.  You make progress by implementing your own bankable ideas”
            Start using your mind to think of the wealth that you could create for yourself, your country and the world,  if you start to think and believe in your vision

1. Dr. Benjamin Mays, late president of Morehouse College, Atlanta, who said, “a mind is a terrible thing to waste”

Don’t waste the power of your mind by becoming pre-occupied and disillusioned with the detractions around you!  Don’t major in minors and inconsequential things.  Instead, as Dr Benjamin Carson who rose from being a dummy in school to becoming the world’s most celebrated paediatric neuro-surgeon said in his book of the same name, see your own big picture, and let it be your guide when all else around you seem to be falling flat!!
Remember, a basic law of life is that a person moves in the direction of his/her dominant thought. So start becoming pre-occupied with the special person that you want to become  and, what the psychologists call your subconscious mind will take over and help to make your dream come true.  Times may yet be hard for you but the over-riding message is that it doesn’t matter too much where you are in life right now; what matters more is the direction in which you are moving.  So, start right now, right where you are, with what you have, to visualize yourself 5, 10, 20 years from now as the person you want to become.

My challenge to you is to become your dream.   It is also my legacy to you.  Take it from here and let me read about you in the achievement columns, because, I fully expect you to become the outstanding person and achiever that you have the ability to become.  Just conceive it, believe it, dream it, visualize it, and work with a passion to become it. It is possible!