I tried today to search for myself on the cloud, trying to "google" keywords and hey! I can find myself, much better than a week ago! I realized that I start to gain visibility, yet not having many visits, but surely getting more and more visible globally. And I must say it is a great satisfaction and I realized something is happening, that the seeds I had been throwing for so long are growing now. And this is why I felt like writing today's post, as a summary of the evolution of my thoughts and feeling during the last many years.
I had a Dream….
I had a dream, a dream of a harmonious life, a harmonious world. A world where you get what you truly deserve, where you safely and openly receive and give equally to your surroundings. And I had the even more beautiful dream that this harmonious and positive environment could be complete and extend through personal, professional and social life; and that the business world could seamlessly be part of the host environment for such good and true things.
I had the dream that profitable business and success can be achieved with respect of humanity, justice and be achieved in a positive, loyal and genuine collaboration with the surrounding world. I had the dream that a business can be not only driven by return on investment but also be based on deeper principles, with the aim to achieve a higher goal, born from the mind of the creators and shared by the whole company as the driving force.
I experienced Deception…
I experienced deception; saw dark sides of the real world, witnessing conflicts of power, worth: been part of some, seeing corruption, understanding the sadness and negativity of extreme individualism, ignorance of others, disengagement of good principles for the sake of un-deserved, dirty success.
I experienced deception, for having given 200% of myself for companies that did not deserve so much, at least not so much from me as I was wrong in my beliefs of what they really were.
I started to give up and felt forced to slowly engrave in my soul this so often heard hurting sentences: "That's life, there is nothing you can do about it, you should stop dreaming, you should be adult and accept reality and live in the real world…"
Resignation was eating me from inside, driving me sad and empty. However there was still this little spark of hope in the depth of my heart, this great positive energy but made miniscule by the impact of experiencing life and uncontrolled interaction with the outer world. Sad but still dreaming from time to time, I woke up one day: HEY !! I AND ONLY I decide what my reality is, I decide if I want to keep dreaming, if I want to make my dreams my own reality!
I had an ambition…
I can say nothing but thank this little spark, my guardian angel to have always kept me alive, pushing me to fight, stand for my beliefs, for my dreams, despite of any negative signal that the dark sides of the outer world could send me. So "that's life? There's nothing I can do about it??"… No indeed there is nothing I can do to change the big size company I am working for, if I don't believe what they are doing is right. No Indeed I can't change my so called friends if I believe there are not worth it and don't follow the same principle as I do. But YES I definitively CAN stop complaining, stop being negative, and I CAN choose the company I am working for, I CAN choose my lover and my friends, and I CAN be proactive, and do whatever I am supposed to do to go for what I believe, I CAN choose my life.
My choice was to create my own company. I always have had my vision about how a business should be run, how I would like to build a trust and win-win relation with the members and partners of the company, what good principles should be applied. Yes I knew that I had not a business educational background and that very experienced business owners could just laugh at my words. But still I had my vision and my choice was to implement it, learn by doing and challenge my own beliefs. And I am very experienced myself in my own beliefs; ideas don't make it all, but work and courage just do the rest.
I had the ambition to create a company the way I imagined it, the ambition to prove to the others and first to myself that YES, I can dream and yes I can make my dreams my reality. I knew there was a path to achieve this journey: courage, faith and hard work. I also knew that the path would be long and difficult, but that it would be worth it, and that no big fulfillment can be achieved with no significant challenge and full dedication.
I have a Dream, an Ambition, a Destination, and I have Faith!
Today I have a dream, an ambition, a destination and faith. I simply don't give importance to my deceptions apart from learning how to avoid them as much as possible and how to accept them when they happen to quickly let them fade out.
Today nobody will take me out of my path and my beliefs, a process has started and I have a destination: go for my beliefs and build a company the way I imagine it, the way I dream it. I want to build a company that is truly different, a company where every member will be part of the success, appreciated for his/her skills, courage, and personality. I want to do business a different way, driven by honesty, justice, merit and true human relationship, in the best shared interest of all participants, be they internal or external to the company. I want to go beyond regular business and build it with the same driving principles that I apply to my own personal life. This is my ambition, my destination, my life; faith, positivity and support of my loved ones will be my energy to do it.
Walter, I like your blog very much indeed and what you have to say, it's uplifting, airy, bright and full of great positivity. It's also very pertinent to today when so many people "absorbe" the regurgitated negative bias that the press and media churn out continually. Whatever happens to economies life still continues, and if nothing else we can control ourselves - we have that within us regardless of what happens around us. Being unhappy and sad is the quickest way to failure, depression, isolation and to lose direction, focus, clarity and above all purpose in life. When people "herd" together and share misery it ends up being a formula for self destruction each one feeding on the negativity of the other (becoming emotional vampires)and thus together they all lose the plot. Whereas those that rise above it with original thought, a positive outlook and real love in their hearts see the bigger picture and as such always see ways out, solutions, ideas, and are never at a loss as to finding something good to say, hear, feel, share and enjoy. Life's what you make it, once you admonish responsibility by blaming everyone else (blame culture) or circumstances you are in effect saying "I have no control in life" and when you do that life will just drag you along whether you like it or not. So if you end up where you don't want to be it's your own fault. You can argue what you like as to how life is or was or is going to be but you have FULL control of how you enjoy the journey, no one else. You live in your own skin, no one else, your thoughts are solely yours. What you do or say or think comes from your mind, always. If you chose to talk like a parrot and copy what others say then you'll lose the ability to think for yourself, and what others do which may be good for them doesn't mean it will be good for you. If you think that you've lost already,you probably have. Reaspect yourself and think for yourself and above all don't talk negatively, keep your heart light, warm and with love in it, and see the difference. Negative people reading this will have endless excuses and objections, positive people reading this will feel rejuventated, uplifted and ligher, and there lies the difference.. Attitude is EVERYTHING in life...
Posted by: John Rushton | 08/10/2008 at 10:47