Writing Your Story

“If you want something and don’t get it, that means you really didn’t want it, or you tried to bargain over the price.” – Rudyard Kipling

QUESTION: What do you really want?

About a hundred years ago, a man looked at the morning newspaper and to his surprise and horror, read his name in the obituary column. The newspapers had reported the death of the wrong person by mistake. His first response was shock. Am I here or there? When he regained his composure, his second thought was to find out what people had said about him. The obituary read, “Dynamite King Dies.” And also “He was the merchant of death.”

This man was the inventor of dynamite and when he read the words “merchant of death,” he asked himself a question, “Is this how I am going to be remembered?” He got in touch with his feelings and decided that this was not the way he wanted to be remembered. From that day on, he started working toward peace. His name was Alfred Nobel and he is remembered today by the great Nobel Prize.

Just as Alfred Nobel got in touch with his feelings and redefined his values, we should step back and do the same.

• What is your legacy?

• How would you like to be remembered?

• Will you be spoken well of?

• Will you be remembered with love and respect?

• Will you be missed?

Remember; our thoughts lead to our words; our words lead to our actions; our actions lead to our habits; our habits lead to our character and our character leads to our destiny.

What’s your story? It starts with allowing yourself some serious time to think. There is still time to write the story you want!  So start writing today!

Read an excerpt from DREAM4’s story to see how we are creating our legacy while helping others create theirs!