July 26, 2008
Michel Fortin has experienced many difficulties in his life that would bring the strongest person to their knees with his wife's breast cancer and his ailing back. When you learn about the lowest moment in his life years ago, it is inspiring to all of us who have less challenging obstacles.
It is important to focus on what you want in life rather than what you don't want. I am learning that is so true with every day.
We been exploring the inner workings of the mind for many years. It is a fact that we know the impact of the daily thoughts on our attitude. When we focus on not missing the target we often miss the target and the results can often be disastrous.
When we focus on hitting the bull?s-eye, it is impossible to think negative thoughts.
In Tennis Awareness, focusing only on the ball allows your body to perform magnificently. It is important to make sure your goals are specific and precise and you know your end result.
Michel Fortin: I wrote a book over ten years ago that I just recently put to the Internet for free, and it was a book that I?d written as a way to teach my own self how to go through some of the hardships that I was going at that time. I was a go getting, goal-achieving, goal-oriented, Type A personality, do as much as you possibly can-type person and I realized that I was achieving a lot.
I was making a lot of money. I was a salesperson working on commission and I was doing very well until I realized that I was neglecting and ignoring other things, and especially my own self, the quality of my life. I was focusing too much on quantity of time rather than quality of life.
Well, lo and behold, in what seemed like a matter of hours I lost everything in my life, my home, my car, my furniture, my wife. I lost everything and then I went into bankruptcy and I even had to look at sleeping at the YMCA for shelter and then I started writing that book and I realized there are far more important things out there than, you know ? first of all, people are more important and second of all is time.
Time is a commodity, a scarce commodity and what you don?t do in this moment is something you will never be able to do, in that moment anyways. When that moment?s gone, it?s gone. Do you want to spend it working like, you know, on your business?
Sure, if it gives you some kind of feeling that I?m doing something that I absolutely love to do or do you want to work in a job dreading those years until you retire? Or are you going to work so much that you neglect the people who you love? So the point, I?m saying, is that low of the low that I have gone through was the most precious and beautiful gift that I have ever received.
It was the biggest lesson that I had to learn and that?s what I ? that pretty much encompasses everything I just said up until this point.
Filed under Heroes Program Creator Ralph Zuranski