Persistence and Reframing

Adventures come to all.

That being the case, you can rightfully determine to steel yourself to it, and endure the “slings and arrows of outrageous fortune”!

It’s the way the triumphant pass.

The science of NLP, Neuro-Linguistic Programming, has given us the concept of reframing.

Not really a new idea, but certainly newly qualified idea… Which really means nothing more than changing the meaning, usually by changing internal associations with a said event or condition.

So, what could be a dis-empowering setback, delay, dishonesty, false affiliate, and adventure you encounter as you climb the ranks - and you will encounter them, as they’re part and parcel of the human nature, visible in all parts and professions - you reframe, re-context, re-conceptualize into an empowering event, simply by changing the meaning of the event.

And on this exact point you find Sun Tzu, in the oldest military treatise of the world, The Art of War, talking about turning “misfortune into gain”.

Instead of negative setbacks, they become positive stepping-stones and opportunities. For example, instead of a partner who ruined you by embezzling $200,000, you’ve got a cheap lesson quick, in discerning character, so you can achieve all your goals successfully.

Don’t you find yourself more jazzed when you’re tearing into OPPORTUNITIES than when you’re beset by problems?

Events and conditions just ARE. The meanings you assign to them are within your complete control.

Remember the philosopher poet who says, “You are master of your Fate”? He’s talking about this.

You are master of your ship, you are master of your Fate because you can choose how to drive your organism. Same winds, different direction. You can take the events that discourage and defeat common people, and engineer them to progress and motivate you.

Isn’t this what Edison did? Though many unenlightened laughed at his consuming interest in and repeated efforts at inventing the electric light bulb, Edison saw nothing of the sort. What Edison saw with each experiment was progress. Empowering difference.