Part of the message Steve Jobs delivered in 2005 to Stanford University graduates was that:

“You’ve got to find what you love, following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on.

You can’t connect the dots looking forward…you have to trust in something, your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever.

If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today? If the answer is “No” for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.”

Reading the words of his life from infancy to a diagnosis that he would only have a few months at best to live was really humbling. It was amazing to me that our lives paralleled on quite a few levels. I relived parts of my own life going through Adoption. When Jobs related the medical instructions to “go home and get your affairs in order,” I was mentally right back with my sister in the same room.

Jobs called “Death” the single best invention of Life, a change agent making way for whatever newness needs to come in. He was fortunate and I’m happy that his health was restored. Coming face to face with Death, ironically is life changing.

A few years ago I was rushing to a high stress job at a popular station. It was about 10 am in the morning, rainy, but I was a pretty good driver so no worries.

Suddenly I felt myself spinning across all four lanes of the freeway from concrete wall to concrete wall. That was the longest few minutes of my life. And yet, as I reeled inside the car, I was aware of many different things, thoughts that should have taken hours to process zipped by in micro seconds. Looking out at the morning rush hour traffic as I spun, I saw each vehicle stop seemingly at the exact same time and bounce as if hitting an invisible barrier. My mental impression was that an invisible force, perhaps an Angel had appeared in the middle of the highway with outstretched arms to hold back the traffic, protecting me from the 65 mph traffic.

Spinning rapidly towards the concrete wall on the opposite side again, I began to see the faces of each and every one of my loved ones, my husband, my kids, my baby sister and my parents.

I saw clearly with regret the words that should have been spoken, the wounds that should have been healed. Arguments seemed trivial and the things I previously thought were all consuming and important just didn’t seem to matter anymore. The only thing of value was the thing I didn’t know if I’d accomplished. Letting others know I cared.

Now that I faced leaving this world, it was critically important to me that each person know that I truly loved them. It felt like I’d wasted precious opportunities and now it was too late. I felt such an overwhelming sense of regret and loss.

Next I felt what can only be described as a “presence” inside the car with me. It was a source of incredible power, authority and seemed to be everywhere at once. A voice I can still hear through the years demanded to know, “What purposeth thou?” I tried to find the answer mentally, because you just couldn’t deny this “voice” a response.

“The purpose is Love.” That was the last thing I heard the booming yet not overly loud “voice” say before my car stopped in the middle of the freeway facing all the oncoming traffic.

That changed me forever. I eventually resigned from my high stress job, started mending fences and embarked on a totally new path of self discovery and enlightenment.

People today ask how I can be so calm when things don’t happen the way I want them to. Why I don’t rant and rave and can take more things in stride than many others. How can I get along with some of the most difficult people in life.

It’s not hard to figure out. I know at the end of my life, no matter what, I have to answer to whomever or whatever that “voice” belonged to so I need to live accordingly.

I’ve asked myself many, many times why I was spared, what happened to me, and how could so much happen in what realistically had to have only been minutes suspended in time.

Perhaps it was because I had words of healing to offer the world, something that uniquely is mine to share with others because of the incredible life challenges I’ve overcome. In my entire family, my voice alone is uniquely different somehow. It always has been. I can remember in kindergarten hearing others exclaim over the sound of my voice. I don’t know where it came from but I know I’m to use it to benefit myself and others.

Part of me knows that I have my voice for a reason and need to use it to uplift others. I have taken broadcasting classes and speak reasonably well, with a few seminars given here and there. Writing has always sustained me from childhood.

Currently I’m in the middle of writing a book project which will be published early next year. I visualize myself discussing my book on Oprah and doing speaking engagements around the world because the content is so riveting. Not because it is my story, but because it is a story that involves all of humanity itself.

I’m attracting from the universe those who can help me develop finely tuned skills to move those goals forward so that I can repay my debt of gratitude for being spared.

What kept me alive? What drives me now? Perhaps its only to encourage you now, with the words that “you’ve got to be hungry” as Les Brown says. Or as Steve Jobs told the graduating class, “stay hungry, stay foolish.”

My message to you is that life is too short to do what makes you unhappy, to live solely for the sake of others and to sacrifice yourself for that which you don’t believe in.

“What purposeth thou?”

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Les Brown has made his fortune in the motivational speaking arena, hosted his own nationally syndicated talk show and impacted the life of millions around the world.

Valuable advice from his is really start to think about something that’s real and important to you, or in your life. He says many fall short because they pick a dream and assume they can do it, but they don’t really believe they can.

Les Brown’s advice is, “Don’t assume you can do it. The mental leap may be too far for you to psych yourself out into believing it. Say instead, some thing or objective that enables you to maintain integrity with yourself.”

He encourages you to look always for ways to win, asking what is some idea you want to move on but lack the money, the family support, the talent or the resources for?

What’s one of those those goals or dreams?

Repeat to yourself, “It’s possible. Say this daily when you look at your dreams. Daily. It begins to change your belief system. The result is a manifestation of what you believe, a duplication, a reproduction of that which you believe subconsciously you are worthy of.

The idea is to operate out of a larger vision for yourself. Operate out of your imagination which is where dreams are manifested not out of your memory which is built on life experiences. Most of us are products of what has happened before, stuck living out of our past experiences. When something happens, overwhelmingly, most people will believe that’s the way the situation has always has been, and the way it will always be.

Les Brown stated that many years ago, the universal belief was that man was not capable of running a mile in less than 4 minutes. It had never been done until Roger Banister came along to break the belief barrier. Over 20,000 people have achieved this goal since that time. What changed? The change is that all of these more recent achievers knew the barrier had been broken. It had been done before so a new belief about this “unreachable” goal was created. It was possible.

If you know someone who had a dream, desired a goal, developed a belief in a dream and made it become a reality, then it is possible for you too. If they can do it, you can do it. Tell yourself, “I’m blessed and highly favored. I can bring my greatness out into the universe, travel around the world, reinvent my life, it’s possible, regardless of where I am, it’s possible, I can create my own book, live the life I dream about, buy a new car, have the world class lifestyle I want.”

Use this whenever you come face to face with rejection, challenges, or disappointment. Never give up… never give up. Put all that you have into the dream or goal that you are looking to achieve.

Eye sight versus mind sight

Eye sight is making a decision and judging by what you can see. Mind sight is seeing things develop inside your mind. You experience the feeling that in spite of how bad things might be, despite the current news being reported, it’s possible that somebody somewhere can help you reach your goals.”

Be inspired. Motivate someone else. Begin your own journey to incredible success!

“I Wish…”

“I wish people would learn to love a little more easily and let go so they can enjoy themselves. Life is beautiful but too short. No one knows whats round the corner. Love it and Live it. Be happy and without regrets when its time to say goodbye.”

~ Comment from Moon at MindChimes.com

How much patience, dedication, focus and commitment (not to mention time on his hands) did this guy have to have?

THE VISION

THE PLAN

THE MANIFESTATION

What’s keeping you from living your most excellent life? What makes you feel that you can move mountains with your will?”As a man/woman thinketh, so shall you become.” What are your thoughts making you?

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