Posted by Ruben Torres on March 20, 2009 at 8:30pm
Not to long ago I had the pleasure of talking with Robert Renteria, author of one of the most amazing books I have read, "From the Barrio to the Board Room". This incredible piece of art both moved me from laughter, to tears. It truly is a dynamic story that will have you on the edge of your seat, and you will not want to put the book down. I read the entire book from cover to cover in one sitting.It is a message of hope, purpose and destiny. A story that MUST be read, MUST be told, MUST be shared to millions. It is my belief that the words in the pages of this book will enlighten you, inspire you, motivate you from being a spectator to a participator, from being a bench warmer to getting into the most important game, the game of LIFE.I urge you to join me and Robert Renteria in putting this book into the hands of every young person, our sons and daughters, nephews and nieces, into our school systems, anywhere we can bring this message of hope, and that yes you can DREAM BIG, THINK BIG, and you can become anyone and anything in this life. We have the responsibility to sound the alarm and bring the "I CAN" attitude to our youth, individuals of all walks of life, that we can aspire to be anything we dream.Our Attitudes today will determine our Altitudes tomorrow. Do we want to be in the same place tomorrow where we are today? What we believe is what we eventually we will achieve. What are you believing about yourself today? Are they thoughts of success? Where we are today is what we thought about ourselves yesterday, and where we will be tomorrow is linked to how we see ourselves, and picture ourselves today. In this book, Mr. Renteria, inspires us to be all that we can be, and be all we were born to be, and that is a success, that we have a life of purpose.Someone once said, “Man can live about forty days without food, about three days without water, about eight minutes without air, but only for one second without hope.” Or as the Vietnamese monk, activist and writer, Thich Nhat Hanh, said, “If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.” I am here to tell you that together united we can have a better tomorrow. Mano a mano y corazon a corazon si se puede." If you can imagine it you can create it. If you can dream it, you can become it " Lets start dreaming again. Lets start believing that we can attain our dreams, our hopes, our goals, our aspirations. Lets start to instill these dreams and thought patterns into our children, our youth. After all they are our tomorrow."The thoughts we think and the words we speak create our experiences." I truly believe with all my heart and have seen it come to pass in my own personal life that hat we believe, we will achieve, what we imagine will come to passOur thoughts become our actions. I urge you to begin to see yourself as a world changer and a history maker. You are a legacy in the making. You are a role model. Your children are modeling after you. Leave them an awesome legacy.I want to leave you with this powerful quote by Marianne Williamson. Read it and memorize it to heart.“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”Ruben TorresMotivational Speaker/Life CoachBeauty Consulting Company Entrepreneur
As I said before:
To dedicate yourself, to inspire and to motivate some PEOPLE to be the "best they can be" is itself, inspiring. Thank you for your blog. Thoughts are ideas, thoughts are dreams, thoughts are reality, and thoughts for a few that believe are "MONEY".
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To dedicate yourself, to inspire and to motivate some PEOPLE to be the "best they can be" is itself, inspiring. Thank you for your blog. Thoughts are ideas, thoughts are dreams, thoughts are reality, and thoughts for a few that believe are "MONEY".