Your Value –Can it be Diminished?

At one of our UK seminars, I watched as Brad Suragrs challenged the room to take a moment and reflect. He took a new, crisp, clean twenty-pound note from his pocket.

To the room of 300, he asked, “Who wants this £20 note?”

Slowly, as only we do in the UK, hands started shooting up and waving, waiting for the catch! Well there wasn’t one.

He then said, “I’m going to give this £20 note to one of you, but first, let me do this.”

He crumpled the £20 into a small, tight ball.

Then he asked, “Who still wants the note?”

Well, now more hands went up, waving even more excitedly.

“Well,” he replied, “what if I do this?” and he dropped it to the floor and ground it into the carpet with the heel of his shoe.

Then he picked it up, crumpled and dirty, and asked, “Now who still wants it?”

Still, hands waved, with the more excited standing and shouting ‘over here Brad’ to be more obvious, some shouting “Me, me, I would.”

“Hu, that interesting, you see, no matter what I did to the money, you still wanted it because it hadn’t decrease in value, no matter how much I abused it,  you all knew it was still worth £20.”

“Here’s the thing! How many times in your life have you been trodden down, abused, treated like to £20 note by people you deal with? How many times have you done it to yourself? Lacked in self-belief and self-worth? Maybe in line with the decisons, you want to make or the circumstance you find yourself in. So often, we can feel or be made to feel as though we’re worthless.”

So whats the lesson? It’s important to remember that no matter what has happens or will happen, you’ll never lose belief and commitment to your value, your personal worthiness.  Believe me, to those who love you, you are priceless.

The worth of our lives comes not in what we do, or who we know, but by who we are, or who we’re becoming.

Time to hold the mirror up

Now there’s a challenging thought.