Because I create my own reality

Yesterday I watched the movie What the Bleep Do We Know!? (aff). It’s out there for 2 years already, but this was the first time I watched it. It contains a lot of concepts to think about, and I will write about it in a couple of days (need to digest it some more).

This morning (at 5:45 am) I watched the extras on the DVD and several parts of the Q&A section struck me. In one of them someone in the audience asked Betsy Chasse the question: ‘Why are you so successful?’ and she answered almost instantly ‘Because I create my own reality.’ That’s powerful isn’t it?

This is usually said by people that actually are successful (or will be soon). Success doesn’t just happen, it’s a deliberate creation. But successful people haven’t always been successful; they have experienced setbacks and failure as well. But their mindset is a mindset of creation. They see failure as feedback and ask themselves ‘How did I create this?’. It’s this mindset of deliberate creation that propels them forward. They happen to reality.

On the other side are people that are not successful. Somehow reality happens to them, and they are not to blame for their current situation. When they experience setbacks or failure, they were just unlucky, and somehow that always happens to them. They try to succeed the next time they take up a venture, but they keep butting their head against the same wall again and again. Reality happens to them.

How do you create your own reality?