by Dwayne Gilbert
As human beings, it is natural for us to create beliefs and ideas about things. This is our reference to the world. Our beliefs are what give meaning and value to those things around us. Our beliefs are what create points of reference so that we are able to interact with everything and everyone around us. It is our belief that walking in front of a car and getting hit by it will hurt us that keeps us alive. It is our belief that jumping off of a thirty story building will kill us that stops us from doing it. Without these believes and ideas, we would be in great danger. The problem is that we rarely evaluate our beliefs and whether or not they continue to serve us. As a child, you believed that Santa Clause and the Easter Bunny were real. As a child, that served you, but as an adult it no longer does. The real question is what beliefs you currently hold that hold you back from being able to accomplish all the things you want to accomplish.
There is a story about a man named Jack. Jack was an average man by every sense of the word. But on the inside, Jack was anything but average. Jack was a teacher by day, and the football coach for the high school he taught at by night. With every word, and every action, he taught his students and his players that their belief in themselves was the most valuable skill they could acquire. On the field, he would constantly inspire his players to dig deeper and believe in their ability to be the best they could be, and expected them to act as though it were true. Jack was well liked by the student body and was one of the students favorite teachers. All of his players felt inspired after leaving practice every day. The story of Jack ends with his belief, and how Jack was able to show by example what the power of belief can do.
One day a few years ago while on a bus coming back from a football game with his entire team, everyone was put to the test. Driving in the dark, the driver was completely unaware that just a few miles ahead, the entire road had been washed out by flash flooding. As the bus rounded a bend in the road, the driver locked up the tires as soon as he noticed that the road had disappeared. It was too late, and the bus dropped off the road over 100 feet into the icy cold rushing water below. Jack sprung into action immediately. As the bus slowly sank into the water, Jack started yelling for everyone to get outside the bus and hold on. A few of the members of the team were hurt badly and unable to swim to safety on their own. Trip after trip after trip, Jack swam back and forth from the bus to the shore saving one person at a time. Some of the players were able to swim on their own and got away safely, but the remaining players depended on Jack and to save them. While Jack was busy swimming, some of the students managed to use their cell phones to call for help.
Jack spent three days in the hospital suffering from hypothermia until he found his final resting place. The final words on his death bed when he was asked why he kept going back were simple. “Because I believed they were my responsibility.” When asked how he had swam back and forth over twenty times carrying a different person each time, he simply replied “because I believed I could.” Jack passed away late on Autumn afternoon, and though he is gone, he will never be forgotten for what he did that fateful day. Many of the players from that day would always say a little prayer that they labeled the power of belief for their gone but not forgotten coach. They always took his power of belief with them, and let it move them to accomplish incredible things in their lives.
So often in our lives we create excuses for why we can’t, or what we would if we could. We need to realize that these statements are nothing more than our beliefs expressing themselves. We need to change our beliefs to reflect what we want to create, because when we believe in something. When we believe in ourselves, we will always find a way to make it happen. Even when the water of life is freezing around us, and our limbs are to tired to go on, our belief will allow us to swim as far and as hard as we have to. As soon as we decide that we believe we can’t, our life will reflect it. But as soon as we make the decision to believe in ourselves and what we want, there is no force on earth that will be strong enough to stop us from accomplishing what we want to accomplish.
As human beings, it is natural for us to create beliefs and ideas about things. This is our reference to the world. Our beliefs are what give meaning and value to those things around us. Our beliefs are what create points of reference so that we are able to interact with everything and everyone around us. It is our belief that walking in front of a car and getting hit by it will hurt us that keeps us alive. It is our belief that jumping off of a thirty story building will kill us that stops us from doing it. Without these believes and ideas, we would be in great danger. The problem is that we rarely evaluate our beliefs and whether or not they continue to serve us. As a child, you believed that Santa Clause and the Easter Bunny were real. As a child, that served you, but as an adult it no longer does. The real question is what beliefs you currently hold that hold you back from being able to accomplish all the things you want to accomplish.
There is a story about a man named Jack. Jack was an average man by every sense of the word. But on the inside, Jack was anything but average. Jack was a teacher by day, and the football coach for the high school he taught at by night. With every word, and every action, he taught his students and his players that their belief in themselves was the most valuable skill they could acquire. On the field, he would constantly inspire his players to dig deeper and believe in their ability to be the best they could be, and expected them to act as though it were true. Jack was well liked by the student body and was one of the students favorite teachers. All of his players felt inspired after leaving practice every day. The story of Jack ends with his belief, and how Jack was able to show by example what the power of belief can do.
One day a few years ago while on a bus coming back from a football game with his entire team, everyone was put to the test. Driving in the dark, the driver was completely unaware that just a few miles ahead, the entire road had been washed out by flash flooding. As the bus rounded a bend in the road, the driver locked up the tires as soon as he noticed that the road had disappeared. It was too late, and the bus dropped off the road over 100 feet into the icy cold rushing water below. Jack sprung into action immediately. As the bus slowly sank into the water, Jack started yelling for everyone to get outside the bus and hold on. A few of the members of the team were hurt badly and unable to swim to safety on their own. Trip after trip after trip, Jack swam back and forth from the bus to the shore saving one person at a time. Some of the players were able to swim on their own and got away safely, but the remaining players depended on Jack and to save them. While Jack was busy swimming, some of the students managed to use their cell phones to call for help.
Jack spent three days in the hospital suffering from hypothermia until he found his final resting place. The final words on his death bed when he was asked why he kept going back were simple. “Because I believed they were my responsibility.” When asked how he had swam back and forth over twenty times carrying a different person each time, he simply replied “because I believed I could.” Jack passed away late on Autumn afternoon, and though he is gone, he will never be forgotten for what he did that fateful day. Many of the players from that day would always say a little prayer that they labeled the power of belief for their gone but not forgotten coach. They always took his power of belief with them, and let it move them to accomplish incredible things in their lives.
So often in our lives we create excuses for why we can’t, or what we would if we could. We need to realize that these statements are nothing more than our beliefs expressing themselves. We need to change our beliefs to reflect what we want to create, because when we believe in something. When we believe in ourselves, we will always find a way to make it happen. Even when the water of life is freezing around us, and our limbs are to tired to go on, our belief will allow us to swim as far and as hard as we have to. As soon as we decide that we believe we can’t, our life will reflect it. But as soon as we make the decision to believe in ourselves and what we want, there is no force on earth that will be strong enough to stop us from accomplishing what we want to accomplish.
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