Three Hopeless Cases
What torment for a woman to give birth to a child afflicted at birth with what we now know as autism. When
doctors agreed that she had to institutionalize the child, she said, "No way."
Disruptive and self-destructive, he couldn't even be hugged or kissed. Doctors and specialists repeatedly told her she
had to institutionalize her son. She refused. His unruly behavior at school was so egregiously disruptive he wasn't merely suspended, he was thrown out of his school. Permanently. Then another school expelled him... and another.
His speech defect, and the flat feet which excluded him from athletic pursuits, and the mocking of the other kids, all added up to a ton of pain. That pain was expressed as disruptive behavior. He was eventually kicked out of seventeen
schools. Can you imagine what it must have been like? How understandable to make the decision to give up on him? How much can a parent take? What hope for a productive future can such a child's parent expect? They felt as if they were running out of
schools.
They finally found a place for him in a private Swiss school. It was neither inexpensive, nor simple to accomplish. The certainty of accomplishment is vastly improved by the persistence of fierce love, of dedication to a child.
At his 18th school he discovered a fascination with, and love of, art.
It calmed him considerably. His interest and curiosity grew.
He became more manageable, and began asking himself better
questions. Every human who asks better questions ends up with better answers. One repeated effort of a specific task: asking a better question about anything we urgently wish we had.
We ask ourselves, and this certainly includes you, any thousands of questions per day. Thousands and thousands of questions and decisions taken one at
a time at fantastic speeds just in the course of tossing a set of keys back and forth between your left hand and your right hand.
Too many of the questions we ask each day are externally focused. The quality of your
thinking, and your decision-making instantly multiplies when you take some of the questions you're already asking, silently or aloud, consciously, subconsciously or unconsciously, and
replace just a few of them with better questions; questions that are focused inwardly; questions that you will definitely find you already have the answers to.
Your inner voice, your inner mind, are fantastically knowledgeable and
helpful. For whatever reasons you have or think you have, you've ignored them more than heeded them, by a ridiculously large margin. The proof is in the number of times you've laughed in the past 24 hours... or the number of times you haven't.
Make this one tiny improvement in this next hour and you'll see results before you go to sleep tonight. If you really think you understand the instant, powerful value of this, then I dare you to prove it before you go to sleep tonight. Use it
immediately, and get benefits immediately. It's that simple.
From the looks of your life it may be too simple for you to understand. You can change this within minutes or even seconds. Whoops. Please don't answer in words... ... because
whatever you do in the next ten to sixty minutes of your life will provide a crystal-clear vision and video of where you're going to be in five years, one year, ten years, etc... right up until the day after they bury you, when
the newspaper will describe you in a single sentence. That sentence will be determined by what you do in the next hour, and when you really do figure this out, above and beyond what you now b elieve to be true, you'll be smiling.
Back in the States, with a family of his own to feed, he struggled and struggled. One of the better answers he came up with was that, however rough things were in his life, he had
to spend at least a couple of hours per week trying to express his artistic side. In those minutes reserved just for his creative side, he wrote a screenplay that attracted interest. Broke as can be, he actually turned down a whopping $250,000 for the
script, because the buyers wanted the script outright. He refused to let go of the script unless he could also direct the movie!! Wait, it gets better: He wanted to star in it, too!
When your electric bill is unpaid, your refrigerator and
cupboards empty, a quarter of a million dollars is one whale of a pile of money. His desire to direct and star in his creation was so great that the short-term challenges of physical hunger, pressure from t he electric company to pay his bill or face
turnoff, not to mention his wife and family, were factors he decided he had to tolerate in order to make his dream come true.
Know for sure that you've got to have a dream if you're going to make a dream come true. Put a date on it, and it's not a dream anymore. It's now called a goal. At 20 million dollars per movie, the guy who refused to sell that script won his battle, developing fame as "Rocky."
Is he smarter than you? Better connected?
No, he had a desired destination.
When do you start asking better questions? With better questions, he got better answers. He asked himself what he had to do to make it happ en, writing out answers, creating what is called
a map, and resolving to stick to his map. Take a desire; put a deadline on it. Now it's a goal. This is the most concise explanation of how computers work; how the human brain and body work together: with goals. The fancy word is 'cybernetics.'
A dream with a deadline is a goal. Please remember that. Sylvester Stallone presented us with every reason to think that his better questions helped him to become a sensitive, sensible, philanthropic, superwealthy,
happy individual, rather than what he was headed for. He was not born that way, and he did not get that way by accident. He asked himself a whole series of better questions, and, y'know, he got better answers. If you look back at the
past 24 hours, I'm willing to wager that Christopher Reeves, breathing only by grace of God a breathing apparatus, and enormous personal desire, has actually done more towards achieving his lifetime goals than you have. Now just stop & think about
this a moment. Here's a man who has every 'reason' or excuse to just stop trying.
Instead, he looks at his life & his family as BEING every reason to keep trying. Advancing his
physical rehabilitation, doing work for spinal injury causes, directing a major motion picture... if Chris Reeves can do all this, can you please tell me why you have almost certainly embraced little more than mediocrity in the past
24 hours?
Exactly what have you done TODAY towards your long-term dreams? Do you even have a dream? If you don't know precisely where you're going, I'll bet you end up somewhere
else. If you had a genie, and 3 wishes, what would they be? I'm asking you to put it in writing in the next 60 seconds. If you can't be bothered, you're a fool to waste your time reading any further. If you're smart enough to do it now, you will, I
promise, be one step closer to your dream than if you don't. This is basic logic. Are you with me so far? Don't talk: DO IT!
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We started with three hopeless cases here, referring to three people who just about everyone else had or has given up on:
Sylvester Stallone, Christopher Reeves... ... and you.
There has always been at least one person who's never stopped believing that they are meant for good and big things in life, including you. I know for a fact that you personally can do more for
this world before you move on. However trite or corny you may accuse it of being, the dispassionate fact is, Newton's Third Law of Physics does not fail, and cannot fail. The most hopeless possible situation always and without fail contains opposite
traits. There is no yin without the yang.
You are already fully aware of Newton's Third Law of Physics, formally or otherwise.
For every
action in this universe,
there is an equal and opposite reaction.
Well worth capital letters. Scientists will routinely tel you that there are very few absolutes in life. We use capital letters for
Newton's Laws because they are unchanging. That's good news for you because knowing something in advance is a fantastic resource for you to tap into 365 days per year.
When you look at the people who have broken records
at the Olympics and in other venues, you find again and again that the people who do it the best are more often than not people who overcame crippling diseases or losses that stun the life out of more than 9 of every 10 people who experience such
losses.In each and every case, each Olympic gold medallist and corporate or institutional leader personally interviewed, you find that they all tapped into Newton's Third Law.
When you know for a fact that
what goes up must come down; when you are totally certain that what goes around must come around, that is the moment for you to shut up and get busy. You have so many resources around you: every time you use one, there will always be a result.
Please answer a simple enough question:When a sculptor hits a huge piece of marble with hammer and chisel a hundred and two hundred and three hundred times, and you see zero evidence that he's getting anywhere, is
there any factual, intelligent, logical reason to continue? After all, he hit the dang thing a couple of hundred times, not a chip, crack, or even much of a deep scratch. What POSSIBLE reason could he have
for continuing to strike away at the slab of stone? Isn't it obvious to a duck that nothing's happening?
Please get this clear in your mind: that sculptor knows for an absolute fact that every action has an equal and
opposite reaction. Anything we do enough times with a focus on doing it well will produce world-class results. There are no known exceptions, none whatsoever, and that includes you.
You know just as well as the sculptor, or you certainly
would if you watched him/her, or better yet, tried it yourself, that the stone will eventually split right down the middle of that strike zone, even if it's a one-hundred ton stone.
No one's asking you to split a helluva hunk of marble or
granite. You're simply asked to wake up to the fact that, however bad it seems right now,
-- there are ALWAYS people worse off than you: those whose mistakes cost them their lives. For them there is no decision to make about living
without a lost limb, they have no more life.
If you have the brains to have gotten to this page, and to understand these words, then we both know that you have enormous strengths in you that you've been ignoring. This is your wakeup
call, Sister. Every ounce of energy you're now using to focus on what's wrong? Take that same energy to focus on the solution. Every single action you take is guaranteed to produce a result. If you don't like your
results, it means you don't like the steps you're taking to produce that result. Changing the effort always always always changes the result. It's a perfect law of life, we call it Newton's Third Law of Physics. This afternoon it will begin producing
better results for you. The law will profit and benefit you, and others around you, just a s it has for me, and for billions of humans who have walked the planet.
That's why you have this program, and and many thousands of connected web
pages, all for free. I take no profit, my identify remains anonymous. This is for you, because I believe in you. It's probably fair to say I've overcome more handicaps than you have. I've made my life exciting, and fun, and I believe you can, and will,
the same day you begin using the shortcuts of those who've already done what you want to do, and be, and have. I believe in you. Now, let's get YOU to believe in you... more than ever before.Sylvester Stallone and Chris Reeves,
successful men, describe exactly what they want. Whether it's a fun wedding or a better job or directing a movie or increasing your income a modest 50% within 8 weeks: it doesn't matter WHAT it is you want. If you know exactly WHY you want it, and can
describe in detail what it is you want, you have already accomplished at least 1 or 2 percent of the job. Now you only have 98 steps left! You can actually change your life in the next 5 minut es.
Put up or shut
up. Describe, out loud & in writing, precisely what you most want in life. Begin creating a plan by writing out who can help you, & what 5 smaller steps you'd have to take in order to do or obtain it. It's really true: you can change your life in
the next 5 minutes, not by talking about what you know... rather, by USING what you know. Talk less; do more: it's the only way we'll ever know who you are. The way you spend today's hours is a pretty good video preview of how you will be remembered. So,
if your challenges and obstacles are less daunting than what Sylvester Stallone, Christopher Reeves and so many others have faced, what are you waiting for?
I repeat, What Are You Waiting For?!!
This is the most powerful day of your life, a day to put a date o n your dream, listing who can help you, and
breaking into ten, twenty, or even fifty or a hundred smaller steps.Why wait?
Should you even momentarily think that this is difficult, please remember
that you take these precise steps every single time you want something urgently. Here, you're invited to write it down simply because writing it down is a shortcut: it helps you get there faster. If you knew better, you'd do better. If you're living your
dream life of passion, excitement, and fun; of service, and relaxing and productivity, then by all means, continue. Otherwise, hush up and try doing it the way masters and millionaires do it.
You see, they know better; they're
doing it better. If you're not getting it from the horse's mouth, at which end of the horse will we find you?
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