It's a Coin Flip!

"There are two sides to every coin". We have all heard this maxim, perhaps so many times it may have lost its meaning, but I really believe there is genuine wisdom in this saying. Take out a coin, any coin. One side is heads, one side is tails. If you are looking at heads, you cannot look at tails at the same time, and vice versa. So it is with life. Your perspective always determines which side of the coin you see. When I first realized the gravity of this lesson, I was writing from a plane on my way from Chicago back to Dallas after a wonderful success conference where our speaker told us, "some people fly." He wasn't talking about our flight attendant on Delta Airlines. He was talking about Ghandi, Michael Jordan, Steve Jobs, Andrew Carnegie, Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King, Amelia Earhart, and the Wright Brothers: people who soared above the limitations of their environments and inspired those around them to dream a little bigger. As I stared out across the wing of our plane and looked down upon the fluffy clouds that looked like a playground of cotton balls in an atmosphere of purest blue, the captain informed us of the storms, high winds, and rain punishing the earth below the clouds. But that's not what I saw. I saw a village of cloud castles shrouded in a fine mist of wispy white. From up there, I could not see the storms, and from below, a person on the ground could not see our plane. When you look at the world, which side of the coin do you see: storms and danger or beauty and peace? To see heaven on earth, all you have to do is learn to fly. I believe in a world of infinite abundance; let us create it together!