The World Needs You

Every morning my alarm goes. The wonders of my modern iPhone mean that I get to name my alarm. My morning alarm says ‘The world needs you’. 

As soon as I see that I am propelled out of bed, it’s the perfect reminder. I think that we are all here for a reason. I believe that the world needs each of us or quite simply we would not be here. 

For years, I have been saying to my kids - 'get up, the world needs you'! When my youngest son was about 9 years old, he came out one morning with a sore throat. I checked his glands and asked him if he thought he should take the day off and head back to bed. "No Mum," he replied. "The world needs me!" I loved that he believed that!

Belief is the core of who we are, what we do and our ability to succeed. A belief is something that we personally choose to form in our own minds about the way we choose to perceive the world around us. They are the things that we decide we want to think are true, based on the information we have 'taken in' up until this point in our lives. 

The most interesting thing about our beliefs is that many of us are carrying around a whole lot of things that we have never really even looked at or actually decided that they suit us - they are just what we were given as children. One of the most powerful things about being an adult is the realisation that we get to choose our own beliefs - we get to create new ones that suit us and we get to decide on the ones that no longer work for our lives. But so many people have no awareness around what they believe in or why!

Belief is one of my favourite things to teach. I get to work with crazy successful people who have belief blocks. Some of them even tell me they believe, but their actions and their eyes say otherwise. 

I was recently speaking at a sales conference and I explained that before they head out the door and try to sell anything, they need to make the first sale of the day to themselves. They need to believe in themselves. Believe that they are here for a reason. Believe that they have a purpose. Believing that you have a purpose is hugely motivating.  Peter Pan said, “The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease forever to be able to do it.”  

We are what we believe…. Our beliefs can empower us or cage us forever.