When it comes to meeting and conquering the negativity in your life, here is a key question: what can you do, starting today, that will make a difference? That’s a good question. What can yo do during economic chaos? What can yo do when everything has gone wrong? What can you do when you’ve run out of money, when you don’t feel well and it’s all gone sour? What can you do?
Let me (Jim Rohn) give you the broad answer first. You can do the most remarkable things, no matter what happens. People can do incredible things, unbelievable things, despite the most impossible or disastrous circumstances.
Even kids can do remarkable things–that is, if they have remarkable things to do. I have also found that if they don’t have remarkable things to do, there’s no telling what they’ll do.
Here is why humans can do remarkable things: because they are remarkable. Humans are different than any other creation. When a dog starts with weeds, he winds up with weeds. And the reason is because he’s a dog. But that’s not true with human beings. Humans can turn weeds into gardens.
Humans can turn nothing into something, pennies into fortune, disaster into success. And the reason they can do such remarkable things is because they are remarkable. Try reaching down inside of yourself; you’ll come up with some more of those remarkable human gifts. They’re there, waiting to be discovered and employed.
With those gifts, you can change anything for yourself that you wish to change. And I challenge you do that because you can change. If you don’t like how something is going for you, change it. If something isn’t enough, change it. If something doesn’t suit you, change it. If something doesn’t please you, change it. You don’t ever have to be the same after today. If you don’t like your present address, change it–you’re not a tree!
If there is one thing to get excited about, it’s your ability to make yourself do the necessary things, to get a desired result, to build the negative into success. That’s true excitement.
* Source: Leading an Inspired Life by Jim Rohn