Several of my clients have told me that they are so distracted by media around recent events that they keep focusing on problems instead of what they can do to help themselves and others. My clients have also told me that they feel guilty when they focus on their work or on their goals. The truth is that using your time and your talents to contribute back to society is one of best ways that you can show your respect to those who have suffered from recent tragedies. Giving back to our economy and each other is vital to keep our country strong and united.

This is most powerful, dynamic, revolutionary statement you could ever make in your life.

But first, deciding to take an inventory your life will lead you to put down in front of you two parts of your life:

1. good things: positive

2. bad things: negative

Do you think your life might have been better or worse?

This is a choice for you to make.

But if you put every thing down and carefully examine it, you will realize things certainly might have been worse.

"I was complaining that I had no shoes till I met a man who had no feet." (Confucius)

For example, you have lost your job but you are in good health: you might have lost BOTH health and job.

Now, mere fact that you are faced with a choice means you are in a dynamic situation, possibility to decide for yourself, to assert yourself, to test your sense of purpose.

You are FREE to decide. Yes, it is up to you to decide whether things might have been better or worse.

If you decide that things might have been better and things had indeed been better, you wouldn't have felt need for change: you would have carried on, unconscious and happy (!?)

If your "present" is better than it might have been, then there is no reason why your "future" should not be better than your "present" (please read this sentence again :-).

The only difference is NOW YOU KNOW, and this is what makes your situation so powerful, so dynamic, so revolutionary, so excitingly full of proactivity:

You can decide, you can make choices, set goals and work to achieve your goals.

You are no longer groping in dark and whatever you decide for yourself will come to pass.

Your future is a heavily pregnant lady and you don’t need an obstetrician, because YOU are obstetrician - not just any obstetrician, but most powerful obstetrician that ever was.

All kids are yours and YOU can decide what they are going to be This is a terribly exciting story, and you are superhero. Now is time to exercise your sense of purpose.

Deciding that things might have been worse means you are ready for three things at least:

1. gratitude: you can be grateful because you see positive side in all things.