Hope, Change, and “YES WE CAN”
Obama is the new president as we all know. This is a special moment in the history of the world.
An election campaign started with “HOPE” and “CHANGE”, and turned into “YES WE CAN” has made Barack Obama the first black president of the United States.
If you haven’t watched Obama’s election night speech, you are making a mistake. Please stop what you are doing, take a few minutes, and watch this historical speech:
Why am I writing about Obama? This is not a political blog
I am a foreigner living in the US. I pay my taxes in the US, my close friends are here in the US, my business life, my dreams, my goals, a lot of things in my life depends on this country. And above all, this is my home…
When I first stepped on the US soil in 1996, I was a 17 year old kid with nothing but a goal of getting a great education.
After over a decade, I’m living the American Dream. I worked so hard, I got great education, and I never stopped dreaming…
America gave me the CHANCE, and I haven’t wasted it. I have worked harder than anybody around me. I was NEVER discriminated. Nobody told me “I Can’t” just because I am a foreigner. In fact, I only got more support after my success.
Especially after the financial crisis, American people were starting to lose their hope. Everybody was getting more clueless about the future. American Dream, as we all know, was becoming more of a dream than the real success stories.
American Dream is ALIVE. YES WE CAN
I’m writing this blog post to tell you that; “If I can do it, YOU can, too”, in fact “YES WE CAN”… If a 17 year old kid, who’s started in a different country by mowing lawn at high school to be able to make a few dollars, spoke a different language CAN do it, YOU can, too.
If you are a foreigner or an immigrant who is blaming the system because of your failures, stop and think again. Do not make EXCUSES for your laziness.
If you are an American and losing your hope, stop and think again. Think about all the OPPORTUNITIES you’ve given and you have wasted along the time.
It’s never too late. Let the Obama’s victory be your guide to a new dream, and start working hard TODAY…
A Better World for Our Kids, with more HOPE
I hope we will be able to leave a better world to our kids. A greener world, less wars, more conversation, higher wealth, no poverty, and above all, more HOPE…
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The Obama family looks sincerely happy in each photo. Nice post, very encouraging, thanks.
I love your blog about Obama. Thank you for sharing with us. For me as an American citizen I have felt deep embarrassment and shame for my country over the last 8 years. And I was sure that many Americans would listen to the ridiculous rhetoric calling Obama a terrorist and not elect him. Now that the election is over and the inauguration behind us I have incredible hope for this country and for the rest of the world as well. Maybe now we can start to work with the rest of the world to fix the problems of the world instead of working against everyone.
Hello Ahmet, I found your post today about Obama and Yes we can, because–to my surprise–it came up as the #3 result on MSN Live Search for the keyword http://www.askdrclaude.com.
What a coincidence that this would happen, especially since my work is all about assisting people in creating what I call “unconditional freedom from unwanted conditions (aka UCs)” in life.
By UCs I mean anything unwanted, including conditions experienced by most (if not all) people in at least one, but usually many areas of their life, such as the condition “I CANNOT …”
(just fill in the blank, e.g. “I CANNOT make enough money right now with this economy”, etc…all the way to “I cannot be as powerful as the President of the United States”, etc.)
http://www.askdrclaude.com is one of the keywords that people who search for me (or my work) use the most, because I mention this website on all radio interviews about the unconditional freedom process–shows such as the one in which Kevin Foresman, from the Highest Ground radio show, interviews me about the ‘Real Secret’ behind the Law of Attraction.
By the way, I have some video clips of Obama campaigning in our small town of Fairfield Iowa in July 2007, where he also met with several people I personally know. Similarly to you, back in 1984 I moved from my hometown near Strasbourg, France to the Maharishi University of Management in Fairfield IA with a dream and an intention to create world peace through group meditation. I came with barely any means (mostly debt money), a growing family to support, and had to be a student since I could not work in the US without the visa which I finally got in 1991. In spite of great financial challenges that lasted for years, I am still here, happy and healthy, passionate about sustainable living, latin dancing, freedom, internet marketing and more, and my kids are now in their twenties and successful in their own way. Obviously this was possible only because the sentence “I can’t” was mostly missing from my thinking and speaking all these years (I do admit that it’s still there in some areas however, such as “I can’t seem to be able to get my message of real freedom fast enough to all the people who may be waiting for it”).
Finally I would like to comment on HOPE. I believe that hope is not enough anymore in this world; we need to develop a state of CERTAINTY OF OUTCOME almost, as well as trust, starting with self-trust–the basis for trusting others and trusting life.
This can only come from experiencing real freedom from the condition “I am a victim” in life–experienced as powerlessness in the face of various circumstances in one’s life (which differ from person to person). Such freedom is of course only possible when one is ready to experience being the creator (or cause) of EVERY experience in one’s life–and the problem here is that we love to use the word BECAUSE (of something or someone else) a lot, don’t we.