Believe It’s Possible

From a very early age, most of us were programmed with a blueprint that has shaped who we are today. Left unmanaged, this blueprint will continue to dictate how we live our lives and it will keep us from believing that our dreams and happiness are possible.

As children we learned how to function and to adapt to our circumstances from our parents. The purpose of this article is not to do any parent “bashing”, but to point out our limitations are sometimes caused by what we observed and what we were taught, for better or worse, as children.

The key, then, is to learn how to manage this blueprint and understand how to live Believe It’s Possible, in spite of our past.

Often we don’t do things because it never occurs to us that we can. It’s not necessarily a lack of confidence or motivation; it’s simply a lack of understanding or awareness. To begin living the idea of “Believe It’s Possible” means we need to do some re-programming and begin to reframe how we look at things.

A few years ago, a friend of mine was climbing up the corporate ladder at a Fortune 500 company in Kansas City. He had it all a good education; respect from his co-workers & supervisors; and a list of successfully completed projects. The one thing he was missing; however, was his happiness.

My friend always wanted more for himself. Deep down in his gut, he felt a calling to help others; to be a servant. But, how could he? He was so locked into the notion that his destiny only existed in the corporate world that he could not begin to imagine, or believe it possible, to do something different. His whole life he had been driven to succeed in ways very similar to his father. Not that his father was uncaring or demanding, but his father was living by a code handed down to him. It wasn’t until my friend’s marriage needed in a bitter divorce that he was able to step back and take an honest assessment of his life. He soon came to the conclusion that what he was doing was no longer working for him. What he believed in the past was no longer of value for him now. He knew he needed to begin believing in something new and different and soon!

This awakening, this breakthrough, was the catalyst for moving to the idea that he could claim his life for his own. Today, he has finished a doctorate program at a divinity school and is working on a master’s degree to become a social worker.

From a project manager at a Fortune 500 company to helping others deal with their private circumstances, my friend clearly is living the life he wants and the life that makes him happy.

It may be time for you to take a step back, too. Don’t wait for a crisis to make this happen. Each day we have on this earth is a day we can claim for ourselves and a day we can believe it’s possible to do what makes us happy.