A middle-aged man walked into a bank. He approached the teller and asked, “Will you cash this check?”
The teller looked at the check. “Well sure, I can cash the check. Just put your name on the back of it, hand it to me, and I will give you the money.”
The man stumbled back and said, “Whoa, wait a minute! I don’t want to put my name on the back of that check and hand it to you. You’ll be holding my check with my name on it and you might decide not to give me the money.”
“Well Sir, no,” the Teller said, “How it works is you have to put your name on the back of the check before I can give you the money. It’s a banking policy.”
“I understand that,” the man replied, “But I want you to understand how I feel. It makes me very nervous to think that you’ll be holding my check and you might decide not to give me the money.”
“Sir, I will give you the money, but you have to go along with banking policy,” The teller said.
The man argued with the teller. Back and forth they went. Finally the frustrated teller replied, “I’m sorry. I am not going to be able to help you. You need to please leave.”
Angered, the man left.
He walked to another bank, went through the same routine, aggravating another teller, and again he was refused service.
The man traveled to a third bank. Again, he refused to sign his name on the check before receiving his money from the bank. Again, the man argued with the young teller, until finally the miffed teller reached the end of his rope. He reached under the teller’s cage, pulled out a rubber baseball bat, whacked the man on the head and commanded, ‘Sign the darn check!’
Stunned, the man looked at the teller. The man then picked up the pen, signed the back of the check, and handed it over to the teller. Cordially, the teller handed the man his money.
Money in hand, the man returned to the first bank, walked up to that first teller and he said, “Look! Down the street I got my money.”
“Yeah, but I bet even down the street you had to put your name on the back of that check before you got the money,” the Teller replied.
“Well yeah I did,” the man said, “But you see, no one ever quite explained it the way they did.”
The Teller of Life:
Factor 1: Will you sign your name to it?
When building our dreams, we’ll often go to the teller of Life and ask, “Will you please give me what I want?
In essence, Life says ok, I’ll give you your dream. But first put your name on the check. Put your self–your whole self–into a vibrational match with what it is you say you want. Commit to you dream. Put your name to the dream and the doors of creation will open.
Many of us reply, “Whoa, whoa, whoa… Wait a minute! I don’t want to put my full self in. What if it doesn’t work out? I want to know how it’s all going to be okay. I want to know where all the pieces are going to come from. I want to know exactly how it’s going to happen. I want to have it, and then I’ll put my full self in. Then I’ll put my name to it.”
We need to be committed to what we want with the belief and faith that we will receive it. Fear, doubt and worry are detractors that prevent us from achieving the results we want. Feed your faith and starve your detractors and you can ‘cash the check’.
Factor 2: Are you harnessing the Law of Specificity?
We can have any life we want. But Law of Specificity states that, to activate our dreams we must be clear about the life we’re designing. It does us no good to write a check to Life that says, “Dear Life, I want a good life. Please give me a happy life.”
Life does not know how to cash that check any more a builder knows how to build a “good house” or a “happy house”.
If you asked a contractor to build you a really happy house, the contractor would look at you and say, “You’ve got to tell me what you mean by happy house. You’ve got to describe it. You’ve got to give me a picture called a blueprint.”
Life is delighted to cash any check you wish. Deciding what you really want and designing it with crystal clear image of what you want is critical to its becoming your reality. Clarity is power.
The two factors, be clear of what you really want, and are you willing to commit and sign your name to it, can determine the quality of your life you are living.
Dare to Dream Big Today!
George Goh
Author of Your Thoughts Matter and
Certified Dream Builder Coach
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