Think Powerfully to Live Powerfully

Marcus passed on 11/16/16. Today is his birthday. He would have been 28 today.

The weekend before Marcus passed, we went to a Tony Robbins Unleash the Power Within event in San Jose, CA together. In his journal that weekend, he journaled, among many other interesting things, that he wanted to be significant in his life. He journaled that he wanted lots of people to know his name.

My birthday gift to Marcus today is to share some significant things Marcus’ death has taught me. In this sharing, my hope is that you will feel his significance, remember his name and his impact on your life as a result of what I am going to share. The significance of what I am going to share has changed my life. Unfortunately, much of what I have learned was born out of our family tragedy. My hope is that today you can benefit from the significant impact Marcus has had on me such that he has a significant impact on you. Not just for today, for the rest of your life. That would be a wonderful gift and would be a nice step to showing Marcus how significant he has been in his life and death.

Marcus significance is felt everyday by the 5 recipients of his organs. Most specifically, his heart recipient family, Paul Sorrentino, Joyce Sorrentino and their daughter Danielle and the grandchildren. We have listened to Marcus’ heartbeat in Paul’s chest. Paul and his family are very good people and that has given us pride and strength to know Marcus is having a positive impact on the longevity of the Sorrentino family. That is quite significant in many ways.

We will always feel sad for losing Marcus. The thoughts and emotions of our loss are always there. At the same time, we had to find a way to go on. We had to find a way to be strong parents for Aaron and Casey. We had to find a way to control our minds so we could live powerfully in the face of our loss.

This is a significant lesson we needed to learn. We needed to take the thoughts and emotions of losing Marcus, accept them while reframing and redirecting them to a more powerful set of truths in order show up in life powerfully.

We had to ask, what else is true of Marcus’ passing?

The Sorrentino family will be forever grateful, as will 4 other families. We had 21 years of wonderful happy memories. We walked on fire together at Tony Robbins UPW. We skydived together while Marcus was in Florida in drug rehab. We travelled to multiple countries together as a family. All these memories are available to us if and when we choose to consciously redirect and reframe our thinking.

We are trying to do that. In doing so, this practice has permeated every part of our lives.

As a family, we are continually trying to rewire our brains to see the good in events instead of allowing our brains to be on autopilot and just think of all the bad attributes of an event.

An event is just and event until we put a story on the event. That story creates an emotion. That emotion creates an action/inaction. That action/inaction creates an outcome and that outcome provides evidence of the truth of the original story.

We’ve chosen to see the positives in our story. We’ve chosen to see how “we are living god’s plan or the universes plan and that plan is always working for us.” We are consciously taking every event that happens in our lives and looking for the silver lining, the gift, the opportunity, the learning.

In doing that, we find peace. We find power. We see how Marcus’ leaving us has had a very significant impact on how we live our lives. Marcus’s passing has caused us to rewire the way we think so that we can live more powerfully more often.

When we experience events, we are learning to consciously decide to see the events in a manner that empowers us.

For example, a person cuts us off in traffic, we can take it personal and get angry, stressed, anxious. That is available to us.

Or, we can assume they didn’t see us. We can have empathy and believe that they are in a hurry due to a challenge they are having in their life. There are an infinite number of ways to interpret that event such that we can go on with our day powerfully. This is not easy to learn how to do. Yet, is very significant to learn if you want to live a powerful and prosperous life in a very uncertain and unpredictable world.

Happy birthday Marcus. Your passing has caused me to change the way I think and this is one of the most significant changes I’ve made in my life.

I choose to remember the good times. I choose to remember the lives you extended with organ donation. I choose to believe the religious writings that tell me that you are with your creator. I choose to believe that you are with us every day in a way that I do not fully comprehend yet. I choose these things because our separation has caused me to learn how to live more powerfully by consciously controlling my thinking.

Today, and every day, I share Marcus’s SIGNIFICANT gift to me with as many people as I can.

I want to make Marcus as significant as possible by teaching people how they can end their mental suffering and live their lives more powerfully more often. ?

When something happens to you today…what story will you choose to put on it? Will you choose a story or label that makes you feel weak, angry, stressed, anxious? Or will you choose a story that makes you feel strong, powerful, hopeful, grateful?

The choice is 100% yours and learning this will significantly change your life, courtesy of Marcus Gibbs.?