Ever seen a hypnotist at work? With just a few words, they can make a grown adult cluck like a chicken or believe they are swimming through an imaginary pool. To the person under hypnosis, the experience feels completely real. A skilled hypnotist can quickly program almost anyone to believe almost anything. As the audience laughs and howls at the unsuspecting participant, the person on stage behaves exactly like a chicken, elbows flapping and clucking without hesitation. This raises an interesting question, are they just pretending, or do they actually believe they are a chicken? The answer is simple, the mind is powerful, programmable and capable of believing whatever it is repeatedly told.
If you are a parent, teacher, coach or caregiver, let me break it to you gently, you are a programmer. Kids are sponges. Their eyes are cameras, and their minds are screens, and everything gets recorded. They watch you far more closely than you imagine. They listen when you think they are not paying attention. Every word, every tone, every reaction, every sigh, every smile, every moment of stress or joy gets installed like software running quietly in the background. The younger children are, the more they believe without question. That is a massive responsibility.
Ever look at someone and think, “Wow, they have really made it”! I know I have many times in my life. It is easy to look at people who stand out and assume they were somehow gifted a special path. Here is the reality, nobody gets there without effort. Success never arrives gift wrapped. It always follows work. In fact, the only place where that word reward comes before the word work, is in the dictionary.
Entitlement is poison. It whispers, “You deserve happiness, success, love and respect automatically. You should not have to earn it. It should just show up.” But life simply does not work that way. When the rewards do not arrive on schedule, entitlement turns toxic. You get angry. You get jealous of people who have what you want. You get bitter. And bitterness never attracts solutions, it repels them.
The easiest way to get what you want is simple, find someone who needs what you can offer and make an exchange. That is the formula. Find a need, fill it. It does not matter if it is something small, like shoveling a neighbor’s snow, or something life-changing, like inventing the next iPhone. Every successful business, every breakthrough product and every major opportunity began with one question, “How can I solve a problem for someone else?”
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