Choices Today Shape Tomorrow’s Reality
I wanted to share with you some amazing stories of people who changed the course of history. Listen closely and try to pull out the common thread in each story.
Story One: In 1962, four nervous young musicians played their first record audition for the executives of the Decca Recording company. The executives were not impressed. While turning down the British rock group called the “Beatles” one executive said, “we don’t like their sound. Groups of guitars are on the way out.”1
Story Two: A Six year old boy was sent home from school one day with a note from his teacher suggesting that he be taken out of school, as he was “too stupid to learn.” He lost most of his hearing by the age of eight but Thomas Edison went on to invent the electric light, phonograph, microphones, mimeograph, fluoroscope, movies and over a hundred other useful inventions.
Story Three:In 1870 a Bishop in a local church stood and made this statement. “The millennium is at hand. Man has invented everything that can be invented. He has done all, he can do.” A man in the congregation said a great invention would take place within the next 50 years and the bishop asked, “What kind?” The man replied, “I think man will learn how to fly.” The bishop said, “That is blasphemy. Don’t you know that flying was reserved for angels?” the bishop was, Milton Wright, the father of Orville and Wilbur.
Story Four: In 1927, while attending the John Murray Anderson Drama School, a little red-headed lady received some instruction from the head instructor, “Try any other profession..any other!” Lucille Ball did not take his advice and became one of the great actresses of all times.
The greatest common thread through these stories is “choices made today shape tomorrow’s future!” They all could have “gone with the flow”, and taken the easy and convenient road, but made a decision that changed their lives forever.
If we were to look back at our own lives, we could all quickly think of some significant decisions we made that made us what we are today. Some have been great choices, while others have been bad choices. In either case, we lived out the consequences or rewards of those choices. The choices you make today will shape tomorrow’s reality.
