“Life’s like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending.”
– Jim Henson, Creator of The Muppets (1936-1990)
Why would we wait to only write the ending, though?
Don Shafer, the founder and Chairman of an awesome company, BancVue, evangelizes often about “RTB,” a reason to believe.
The reasons are personal and many. No matter what we’re doing — and no matter how difficult it might seem — someone has had it harder. My parents, like yours, perhaps, likely walked a mile, uphill both ways, to school. Our kids have it easier than we did.
Those are the tongue-in-cheek, easy references.
The farmer plowing his field with horses. The doctor treating diseases without modern science. Those are more difficult. Don likes the Mayflower story and the story of the American revolution’s early stages. There are other examples of people coming together, with a reason to believe, to accomplish amazing things…
I am still amazed that when Abraham Lincoln promoted Ulysses S. Grant to be commander of the Union forces, he hand wrote a letter. Then he handed it to a messenger who rode his horse from DC to Louisiana. Did I mention that was enemy territory? Grant, upon receiving the letter, hand wrote one to his wife. Gave it to a messenger who headed for Galena, IL. Then he wrote one to Lincoln, accepting the promotion, handed it to a messenger who rode his horse back through enemy lines to DC, only to be followed by Grant on HIS horse a few hours later.
The stuff we’re doing — whatever it is — is very doable. If we give ourselves reason to believe, rather than focus on all the difficult things we might encounter along the way.
Making a difference is based on always having a reason to believe.
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