I know, I didn't come up with this, but I was reading one of Howard's books and decided to re-challenge myself to do just that! Would you like to try it with me?
Here it is straight from the book, You are Oprah, Igniting the Fires of Greatness (by Howard Glasser)
"Imagine that you sit down to log onto the Internet. Much to your delight, you find that your connection is perfect and immediate. The access to sites is instantaneous and breathtaking, revealing information to which you have never before had access. And so, in delighting in this, it dawns on you to go to a search engine to see what you can find. In an inspired moment, you decide to enter in your name along with a plus sign and the word GREATNESS.
Much to your surprise, you find that the search nets you much more than you could ever have imagined. You find hundreds and hundreds of results. You scroll down and click on the first one that intrigues you in some way.
When you open it, you are stunned. Your heart starts beating faster than it has in a long time. You can't believe what you have come up with. Every page is loaded with notes about your particular qualities of greatness. Each paragraph has descriptions of qualities that amaze and excite you, just seeing them in print.
For example: One paragraph tells you that you have the great quality of being loving. Another talks about your great quality of being collaborative. Yet another talks about your greatness in terms of your brilliance -- your ability to see around corners with your amazing insightfulness. The pages of qualities go on and on and on.
The other quirky thing about this treasure you've found is that so many of the paragraphs have parts that are highlighted in blue. Just for the heck of it, you move the cursor over one, and you find that it's a link. You double-click on it, and it instantly leads you to page after page devoted entirely to evidence and examples of that one single quality mentioned in that highlighted paragraph.
... only one of dozens upon dozens of bullet-pointed examples evidencing your wisdom. The list goes on and on, with even more links to other qualities of greatness. Those links lead you to more pages about your sense of humor and kindness. You see other examples of ways you exhibited humor and kindheartedness through tense situations, helping others to suffer less stress.
Following one more link, you find another page that, at first, makes no sense. It seems to document times when you've been told or felt things about yourself that contradicted your greatness...perhaps times and dates during which kids or adults called you names or said harsh things to or about you. Then you see that each and every instance shows irrefutable proof that, had these people known about themselves what you now know about yourself -- that they, too, are really great -- they never would have said anything that did not support your greatness. Indeed, they wanted to support your greantess all along but just didn't know how. ...
You decide you need to take a break and close this down for a while.
There's a glitch, however. Every time you attempt to close the page, it springs right back at you like a jack in the box. Along with it pops up a box that simply says, "You might want to read this." It then proceeds to let you know the catch: the terms and agreements of having access to these pages.
It says: "To close this page and go on to anything else, you need to agree that you cannot now, or ever again, dismess what you have read. You also cannot turn your back on what you know.
"Further: you must agree to purposefully fan the flames of these qualities of greatness. You must agree to go back again and again to these pages until you embrace these qualities in a core way.
"Additionally: you must choose to be purposeful in NOT giving energy to anything that distracts or contradicts this in you. Rather, as soon as you feel the pang of that energetic impulse toward distraction from your greatness, you must quickly experience it and then reset yourself to purposefully MAGNIFY GREATNESS -- that of YOU and that of OTHERS."
And in a flash, you agree. (pg 49-51)
My challenge to you today is to EXPERIENCE and REVEL in your GREATNESS today. Even if it's just a glimpse or glimmer of some trait or attribute you can acknowledge in yourself. This is just the beginning of seeing not only yourself, but others in a whole new way! I'm Googling -- are you?
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