Happy New Year Rams! I was not going to reemphasize the importance of the New Year and the change America is witnessing, but its contagious! I have never been this excited about the future of this country.
After witnessing Barack Obama becoming the 44th President of the United States of America, I feel a sense of pride knowing that everything is going to be okay.
Nigel Alston, a columnist at the Winston-Salem Journal, wrote an editorial titled, “If you’re stuck in ‘can’t,’ change your story line.”
I take this to mean that we should not surround ourselves with negativity, and we need to get rid of the poor me syndrome.
No one is immune from problems of everyday life, but we can all change our focus.
In the editorial Peter McWilliams, a writer of best-selling self help books, was quoted, “Our thoughts create our reality. Where we put our focus is the direction we tend to go.”
With the sense of personal responsibility that has risen within the heart of American culture, pity stories should decrease.
We all can visibly see the fruits of hard work and persistence, but these ideals are often outweighed by excuses and lack of discipline.
Hard work is the key to success.
Therefore, we should be telling ourselves that we can and must be successful in all that we do.
We have a responsibility to ourselves and the others who follow.
Molly Gordon, a professional coach, is also quoted in Alston’s column. Gordon says “Stories shape our experience; they explain or justify our decisions, focus our hopes and flesh out our dreams.”
It is a new year, and changes can be made.
Learn what works best for you and make it a personal responsibility to become successful.
Determine today how you will change your future and change your story.