Talk This Way

If you ever expect to have what it is that you really want, at some point you are going to have to be bold enough to say that you have it even if it looks like you don’t!

In fact, in order for anything to have existed in reality, someone, somewhere, at some point, had to say that it was so even when it looked like it was not.

Men have walked on the moon—someone had to start a conversation for making that fantasy come true! Someone had to talk about the possibility of winning the gold medal or writing a best seller or performing brain surgery for the first time.

Whether it’s a smaller dress size, a happy marriage, the home of your dreams, or a Pulitzer Prize on your mantel—whatever it is that you want, however unlikely to you it might seem—you’ve got to be willing to open your mouth and talk about it as if it were already the way that you want it to be. You’ve got to be willing to declare it as so; relate to it as a done deal if you ever expect to have what it is that you want!

As a nation, we recognize July 4, 1776 as the beginning of our independence. But it wasn’t until September 3, 1783 that The Treaty of Paris was signed between Britain and America providing for the recognition of American independence. It was not until 1783 that the British finally conceded that America was in fact, free.

So, technically, on July 4, 1776, the United States of America was not free at all, really. In 1776, according to the circumstances, America was still under British dominion. Americans still made and spent British money. British soldiers still patrolled the colonies, still in charge. The official church was still the Church of England. King George was still the BOSS— according to the circumstances.

But Thomas Jefferson and John Hancock and company refused to rely on what the circumstances dictated was true. Instead, they chose to be bold and to declare independence even if it seemed unpopular, impossible, unlikely to achieve. The United States of America lived free as of July 4, 1776, simply because they were willing to say it before they could see it.

The citizens of the United States of America lived by the word of their mouth as free and Independent for seven years and then in 1783, it finally came to pass.

Imagine.

If you ever expect to have what it is that you really want, at some point you are going to have to be bold enough to say that you have it even if it looks like you don’t!

“I would like to thank everyone for coming and for calling in to hear what I have to say today. I have some news regarding my health to share with you.”

These were the choked up words uttered by Lance Armstrong on October 8, 1996 just six days after discovering that he had advanced testicular cancer.