Okay… it’s a lousy title. I couldn’t think of anything to rhyme with wall. At least not anything that conveys the idea of how we really see ourselves.

I’ve had far too much time lately to think about how I see myself and by extension how others see themselves.

It’s really true… the way you look at yourself either limits or releases your potential.

A couple of weeks ago I ended up in a wheelchair for two days while were traveling. My back has been giving me a great deal of grief the last couple months which incidentally is why I haven’t posted in a while. I can’t sit at a desk for extended periods of time and I still have to get my real work done.

Anyway back to the wheelchair. After refusing to use the chair and trying to walk until I simply could not… I succumbed to the wishes of my family and sat down in the wheelchair so they could maneuver me around. Within a couple hours of first sitting in that chair I had a sudden realization… my mindset had changed. I was no longer fighting the idea, I was enjoying it.

Nothin’ wrong with that you say. And you’re right. I had accepted my reduced mobility.

Instead of trying to walk, it was easier to be pushed around. Something in my motivation and view of myself left me content but it actually scared me. I could see myself staying in a wheelchair. I was confusing resignation with contentment.

At that moment I realized that I couldn’t risk keeping an image of myself in a wheelchair in my head. I had to get rid of the wheelchair in my head before I could get rid of the wheelchair I was sitting in. I had to create the picture, I couldn’t let someone else do it for me.

• People can overcome tremendous obstacles when they can see themselves past the obstacles.
• To go where you want to go in life you must somehow see yourself already there.
• You stay where you are when you see yourself as you are. Not as what you will be!

The bible says that even God calls things that are not, as though they were.

Oh and by the way, I’m not in the wheelchair. In fact I’ve started some new therapy and my back is improving. I even had enough time to post today.

Let’s try something together. What do you want to be six months from now? How would you describe it? Can you describe it in a comment that would give others a picture of the person you will be? Can you see it?

Let’s talk!