It’s funny how different things look through the filter of time. I’ll bet you remember exactly where you were and what you were doing the morning of September 11, 2001.
Like most people, I woke up here on the west coast AFTER both towers of the World Trade Center had collapsed. The news was the same on every station, on every web site, in every newspaper.
Regardless of where you looked, you saw those same pictures, and read the same commentary about the events that had unfolded that day.
At that moment in time, it seemed like the world was coming to an end. Nothing else mattered, nobody was working, shopping, or even talking about anything other than what was happening in NY and Washington.
Today, 7 years later, things look so very different though the filter of time.
We now see this event as an isolated event and not the end of the world. We now feel we know who was behind it all and we’ve done what we thought was needed to stop this from happening again. Life, it would seem is pretty much back to normal.
And it didn’t take 7 years for that to happen. If you remember, things pretty much got back to normal within weeks or months of September 11, 2001. This is what happens when you add the element of time into the mix.
Some people are right now going through their own personal 9-11. Finances may be a problem, relationships may be failing, or maybe it’s a health challenge that you’re dealing with.
While in the moment, things might appear bleak, and even at times, hopeless, it’s not how it will be days, weeks, or months from now.
This is nothing you don’t know, it’s just something we tend to forget in the heat of the moment. So take a deep breath, and put your focus back on the way you want things to be in your life rather than on the way that they are now.
Doing this will help you to relax and to see that whatever it is that’s going on in your life will change. How it changes is not the important part, just know it will change and put your focus there instead.
You’ve heard it said many times before, when you look back at your darkest hours, they were also your greatest gifts because they almost always lead you to making changes that make your life better in every way.
Just as the world healed from the events of 9-11-2001, you too will heal from any and all the events going on in your life right now too. And that’s where you should be putting your attention today.
If you really want a better tomorrow, put your attention on what that looks like today, and you’ll indeed have a much better tomorrow.
If this sounds simple, it is. If it sounds too simple to even bother with, you may be passing up the one thing that really does work in creating better tomorrows.
Go ahead, give it a try. It’s easy and it works.
I’m looking forward to hearing more about your better tomorrows.
Be outstanding!
Robert Imbriale
‘The Motivational Marketer’
