The Middle Of The Storm Is Where You'll Find Peace

Whether you say you can or whether you say you cannot, your words will unlock your destiny

7 o'clock in the morning, frigid fingers of a raging blizzard ripping at my overcoat, stinging my face with horizontal ice pellets, the wind stealing my breath and tossing it into the air, I stood beside my car in the parking lot before setting out on my first appointment of the day. Spoon size shovel in hand, I birthed my car out from under the mountain of snow.

As I continued to dig snow out from around my car, I found myself feeling sorry for myself and my situation; my thoughts matching the weather.

I had been working on this particular project for months now, and I had very little to show for it. Usually, at this point in the game I would have my class put together and would be in the middle of the coaching process and would be developing another project in another region. I was short of my starting number by 4 people, and I couldn't see where they were going to come from.

It seemed that the more I whined, the darker my attitude became, and the less confident I felt.

"This is ridiculous" I said out loud to the storm. "What am I doing? No-one is going to be at work on a day like this. Why don't I just go back to my hotel room and wait it out?" As my confidence waned, I started creating excuses to fail. The client that I was going to see had never given me any business before, and I didn't know why I was going to see him that day, I felt that I was just wasting my time.

At that moment, quitting and giving up seemed more important and easier to do than continuing on through the storm. I was starting to give up hope and was filling my mind with destructive words that, like the snow that was falling, was covering my confidence with each sweep of the wind. I needed a mental shovel to dig myself out from under my storm ... and I needed it now.

Then a funny thing happened. Right there in the middle of a raging blizzard at 7 in the morning, my cell phone buzzed on my hip. "Hello?" I shouted into the wind and snow.

"Paul, are you coming to the appointment?" He asked.

"Yes, I'm on my way, I may be a little late, but I'm coming." I replied back. Then, in a moment of faith or desperation, I'm not sure which; I said "I'm really looking forward to working with your 4 people in the upcoming class."

"That's good Paul, we've never done anything like this before, but as you mention it, I think we could actually be putting 6 people in. Can you talk to them all this morning?"

And that was that. In the middle of two storms, mental and physical, with a bold word of faith, I had found my solution; No matter what the challenge facing me, I can speak my solutions into existence.

And you can too.

No matter what storm you are in, if you stay focused in on your results instead of your current circumstances and resisting falling into the "poor me" attitude, you will sooner or later arrive at the end that you imagined. The key is to describe what it is that you want, and then speak it out loud.

The simple process to creating the same kind of results that I did is: 

1. Think it. Get it in your head first that success can be achieved.
2. Speak it. Open your mouth in faith and say what it is that you want to achieve.
3. Do it. Put your energy into doing rather than worrying.
4. Become it. When you speak it out loud, and you act as if it has already happened, you become what you must become to create the results that you need.

This week, remember MUST law #3: Your words create your reality. If you think failure, you'll get just what you wanted, but if you speak success, you'll get that too. It's a discipline of choice.

Make this you best week ever!

A Bit about me...

My vision is quite simple: to make an impact on the lives of the people who have been entrusted to me: You (for reading this article), my family and my clients.

I coach people. Direct, practical, innovative, meaningful. I coach for excellence. I love what I do... and so do my clients.

Over the years I've noticed that business coaching that was supposed to make us stronger actually took away our confidence and made us doubt ourselves. Confidence and people skills aren't developed just by measuring and planning everything, they grow through doing and learning from experience and by taking risks. People want to make a difference. Build teams. Be better understood. Live more confidently.

I founded IBC Impact Business Communication Inc. to create a world where business people communicate and act with confidence to create better worlds for themselves. Worlds where they feel powerful and free to express themselves. Worlds where something as simple as conversation creates energy, understanding and impact. Worlds so exquisite, I couldn't imagine doing anything else.

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