I was doing a little spring cleaning around my office this week and ran across this speech by Nelson Mandela. I'm pretty much a neat freak at home and at my office, so this was in it's place but like some things that are there awhile you tend to not "see them". Its kind of like "You can't see the forest for the trees" thing. I have always believed that you must keep your environment clean and neat, so piles of things sitting around drive me nuts. I'm always amazed when I see most agents office how they can possibly get anything done, I mean how can they find it for the stacks of files and papers everywhere? At my office my desk is always clear before I leave for the day, and I'm the same way at home. A cluttered office, or home is distracting, not to mention not very pretty or inspiring. At least to me. But I digress, one of my faults :). Nelson Mandela's speechI have hung in my prospecting room, which is the area in my office where I go to prospect for business. The only things in there are two phones of course, my scripts, people I need to call, buyers that need to find homes, and sellers that need me to find a buyer for them. I also have my goals posted, my "dream book" album, a couple of my favorite motivational quotes and that's it. No computers, no distractions, so when I go to work, I work. When I saw and read this again this time I decided I wanted to share it and my thoughts on this man that if admire so greatly. I hope you enjoy it as much as I have over the years.
This is what I wanted to share with you, and it is one of the few things in my prospecting area.
"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is hat we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to manifest the glory of God within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others." Nelson Mandela, President
This is from his inaugural speech in 1994 when he became president of the Republic of South Africa. It blows me away each time I read it, and I've read it so many times, but there is was and I had not read it in some time, it's that forest thing again. We get busy with life, and we forget we need these kinds of thoughts feeding our brain all the time, It goes past his words, my mind takes me to a place when I try to comprehend this 
mans greatness, what he went through for so many years in his political prison cell on Robben Island in Cape Town, South Africato becoming president. He pulled a county together that could have gone into riots, and years of war, by forgiveness and wanting peace not war. Such a profound speech on how we all should strive for greatness because that was how God wanted us to be and created us for. This helped me through years of being shunned by my peers because I was succeeding at a much higher level than they were. It helped me in personal relationships with everyone and it helped me with my inner struggles on "Do I deserve this?". Yes, we all deserve success at the highest level, so I wanted to share it with you in case you had not heard it, or like me have not read it in awhile. Strive to be the very best that you can be, and rejoice in your successes, after all God does so who are we to doubt?
Have a blessed Easter, Liz Carter
Liz Carter & Team Realty, Katy Texas, www.lizcarter.com
Love this shoot I got, when it's bigger you can see the water drops on it, and it looks like the light is shinning from within.
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