What Do You Really Want?”

I gave my winning speech on Law of Attraction fetching me 3rd prize in Toastmasters Cyberjaya area contest. As you know, I had been through things and things over the past 2 months. But I have had some amazing friends who stood by me. Then I realized that instead of wallowing in self pity, let's give back to people. The first step for that is to begin by building one self. Charity begins at home right! So this is my way of re-establishing myself.

I chose the topic of “What do you really want?”

First question is, do u really want to be sad, upset, angry or confused? No! No! No!

We all want to be happy and contended. So the actions should lead to those emotions. How do we do this?

People like Abraham Lincoln never gave up planning to develop himself. He had 12 astounding failures. Nervous breakdown , first sweetheart died, lost a lot of elections for government posts BUT he made it.

He is the greatest US president of all times. How do we do this?

Lets keep it simple with the 3 steps of LOA:

Step #1 : Ask WHAT do you really want? Really, really want. Not what u wish for. Not what u crave for. What is your burning desire? Identify that first. Believe me, sometimes what you wish for is not what you really want. Do you want prove? Look at people unhappy in relationships, jobs and other areas. And then look at other people who are so happy at what they do.

Step # 2 : Focus . Focus , focus. Concentrate on the task at hand. Not on what you don’t want. For example, you want to do well at a business presentation. Suddenly, you have a headache, you start worrying that people will not appreciate your presentation or you will get a stage fright. What would someone do? Buckle under pressure right? But what if you think of the end result only. Of the feeling of delivering a successful business presentation to accolades?

Isn’t that what a person would want?

Step # 3 : Belief. Remember Rocky? Stallone? A nobody who became a super star in Hollywood. He wrote the script for “Rocky” and got kicked out by all the major movie studios. He never gave up. Again and again he came back trying to sell his script. Failure after failure after failure. The man never gave up.

Finally MGM was willing to finance the movie for $50,000 and wanted to put someone else to act. He refused. People thought he was crazy! He was dead broke, got divorced and sometimes didn’t have money to pay for heat and spent time in library to keep warm! And here is this person rejecting a $25,000 offer. They raised the offer to 75,000 $ but he still insisted that he was born for this role. Finally MGM bought the script, cast him and the movie went on to make 200 Million US dollars in 1976! It also won academy awards and recognition. It is recognized as one of the top 10 movies of all time! Listen to Anthony Robbins narration of the Rocky story (
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywuse55qU2A)

Now, compared to his story, is our life full of challenges? Is it not possible to accomplish our dreams? Yes we can.

Belief .. is the only virtue that moves mountains.

We can control the way we think. It’s a choice we make everday. I have decided to make my choice everyday as above. What is yours?