Your life is made up of both external and internal aspects. While the external includes your actions, behavior and outcomes, the internal deals with the power of your thoughts, beliefs, and creativity.
Each feeds off the other. Your affirmations and imaginations form the most potent expressions of your internal life.
The legend of Babe Ruth’s “called-shot” home run in the 1932 World Series dramatically illustrates the value of conviction. Playing in Chicago’s Wrigley Field, the New York Yankees had won the first two games against the Chicago Cubs. They would go on to sweep the series four games to none. Ruth, the Yankees’ top slugger, opened the game at Chicago’s Wrigley Field with a first-inning home run, then came to the plate in the third inning. He took two strikes, and then, according to observers, pointed toward the centerfield bleachers. He knocked the next pitch over centerfield and out of the park.
Legend has it that a teammate asked Ruth, “What if you hadn’t hit the home run?” Ruth’s answer: “It never crossed my mind.
” Babe Ruth’s philosophy was “Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.” He didn’t, and though he struck out more often than most players, he rewrote the record books when it came to home runs. What you affirm and imagine, you invite!