I am relentlessly committed to helping us all help each other by telling personal stories from our own journeys of Positive Transformation, supporting and inspiring others to do more and be more through powerful connection. This is all about how we positively transform a billion lives in the next decade, and while that may seem ambitious I believe this.
"Very simply, there is nothing more powerful than a changed mind, when we can change one mind we positively transform one life. One becomes two, two becomes four and exponentially compounded growth becomes a billion lives faster than you may think."
As we advance on this journey living with a 240X Opportunity Mindset it is all about driving personal Positive Transformation by Doing Well Doing Good in a difficult and challenging world, a world in which it can become all to easy to be cynical, and I simply refuse to become cynical, negative without hope.
A little story to share about where the 240X comes from, this is something I read a while ago which I found incredibly powerful and inspiring, particularly given my own personal circumstances coming from being a homeless teenager when I was 15 years old.
This took place in the the 1950s when a Harvard-trained researcher based out of Johns Hopkins named Curt Richter ran some fascinating experiments. He wanted to see how long rats could swim in two different conditions.
In the first condition, he simply let them swim as long as they could before giving up and drowning. They lasted 15 minutes. We do not support animal testing, this was the 1950's!
Then, in the second condition, right before they were about to reach their maximum threshold of 15 minutes, he picked them up, dried them off and let them rest briefly before putting them back in.
What happened then?
How long do you think they were able to swim after having been saved, rested and then allowed back into the water to attack and adapt to the challenge again?
Only a few more minutes?
Another 15 minutes?
Maybe 30 minutes?
Try 60 HOURS!!! ... THAT'S 60 HOURS!!!
After being saved, rested and shown they could survive, those little rats swam for an absolutely astonishing 240 times longer!
15 minutes vs. 60 hours. The power of the mind is simply unimaginable!
How is that possible?
Richter said it was because of one very simple thing: HOPE.
The rats that had been saved had “seen” a better future. They “knew” there was a chance to survive so they just kept going and going and going. This I argue strongly is the huge difference between "sight" and "vision". You can see your circumstances and yet you need the vision to dream a brighter better future for you, your family, team, country and an entire global society all in need of a massive change in attitude and perspective.
When we don’t believe our future will be better than our present we are literally hopeless and quitting seems like an option. Quitting is never an option! When you are going through hell you keep going or HELL is where you will stay. To every person is given the keys to heaven and the keys to hell, you decide where you are prepared to live.
When we have hope we believe our future will be better than our present and I can tell you with 100% certainty this is true. We will go through challenges, hardships, pain and suffering and that is the journey. However, we never stop, we never back down and we NEVER QUIT!
To 240X our lives with hope we must train an 240X Opportunity Mindset.
1. We need to see a better future. (What’s yours look like?)
2. We need to believe we can make that future a reality. (Do you?)
3. We need to be willing to pursue multiple pathways to get there. (Follow your dreams!)
And as Einstein so eloquently put it, we must be open to everything and attached to nothing.
Now looking back at my life and my 15 year old self as being that drowning rat, I know what it is to 240X your life and I strongly advocate you know this.
With the right opportunity mindset, your future will always be better than your present.
Anyone can 240X the Power of Hope today, finding a way to your dreams or making one!
A journey of a 1,000 miles begins with one step.
Change One Mind. Change One Life.
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