This photo of Khizr Khan, as he came onto the stage with the light on the audience, exemplifies how he highlights and respects others.
His peace and centeredness said volumes before he spoke a word.
When he stepped onto the stage, the atmosphere in the recording studio noticeably shifted; the audience immediately felt on a threshold to witness a message that would move the spirit as well as the mind. This wasn’t going to be a routine interview by Evan Smith for his PBS TV show “Overheard.”
Originally from Pakistan, Khizr Khan’s stories depicted a heartfelt gratitude and love for the United States, from an immigrant’s perspective who felt privileged to receive law degrees, first in Punjab and then at Harvard.
It wasn’t just the moving depiction of his first encounters of the generosity of Americans that began to touch my heart.
Tears misted my eyes because he helped me see the world as he sees it, with profound appreciation and goodwill.
As a Gold Star father, his focus wasn’t on the loss of his son while defending his country in Iraq.
We heard about the character of and respect for United States Army Captain Humayun Khan from a story he shared through the eyes of a 10-year-old boy who his son mentored.
Through the eyes of Khizr Khan, I found a deeper gratitude for living in this country of freedom.
I was inspired anew by Ronald Reagan’s election eve address “A Vison for America” when he referred to being “committed to that vision of a shining ‘city on a hill.'”
In his non-political message, Mr. Khan’s very presence inspired us never to give up faith in the goodness of people, freedom and the ideals set forth by the founders of the U.S. Constitution.
How can your presence affect your success?
A client was getting ready for an important presentation. His team prepared charts and figures designed to make his offer so impressive that his prospect would have to say yes.
I told him that he would be hired because of his energy and who he is. While the charts are wonderful, they would be window dressing.
When his prospect couldn’t make their scheduled appointment and didn’t return follow up calls, he thought his window of opportunity closed.
As part of his mastermind team’s assignment, my client was reading the following ideas in Wallace D. Wattles’ classic The Science of Getting Rich.
“Convey the impression of advancement with everything you do, so that all people shall receive the impression that you are an Advancing Man, and that you advance all who deal with you.”
Turns out that his prospect had been busy and did call back. At that time, my client was so filled with the attitude to “convey to their minds the impression of increase” that, without the charts and during that phone conversation, the man agreed for them to do business together.
His energy of conveying increase spoke louder than marketing tools, inspired his words and went beyond his talking.
You can be a success, whatever that means to you, beyond any of your perceived limitations.
You can be a success regardless of how much money or titles you have or don’t have, who you know or your lack of connections, your education, your past so-called “failures,” your personal shortcomings or the state of your health.
Within you currently exists a bounty of life-supporting energy to attract the success you choose, in any and every area of your life!
Focus on energy of well-being and increase to all instead of what’s not working.
When you do this, people who are open to well-being and increase will hear you beyond any words you speak.
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