I’m asking you to BELIEVE!!

Berta Medina-Garcia
Feb 4, 2016
4 min read

Life has this funny way of consistently providing us with irrefutable evidence confirming what is most important to us. You don't have to be a new age spiritualist to see that your vision, dreams, and beliefs take you from where you are to where you want to be. You have to believe it to see it, not the other way around.

Bugging Out

For as long as I can remember, my dream car (bucket list item #2, second only to Africa) has been a Pink Convertible VW Beetle. Granted, I had a pink Mustang in college and yes, I had a VW Beetle in my 30’s but I was looking for that ultimate combo. I hadn’t purchased a car for myself in a little over 15 years – I usually inherit whatever my husband buys for himself (but only after he decides he doesn't want to drive them to job sites).

I’m not complaining, I’m very blessed, but this post-menopausal hurricane hit me with the realization that it was time for me. In a flash of motivation I started rooting through the VW website and speaking with VW representatives. Can I order a pink one? No. Pretty please? No. What will it take to paint it? We don't recommend it.

After a good four months of trying to find the perfect deal and the perfect car, just a few weeks ago they found her in North Carolina. I've dubbed her “The Go-Giver.” This little car doesn't skimp on function: it's half toy that I can use to zip my granddaughter around town and half “adventure” bug. This is starting to sound like an ad for the car, but that’s not really the point. It's the perfect fit for me and my life, but here's why it's important.

I always say that God never plants the seed of a dream in your heart if He hasn't already equipped you with the means to achieve it. I have the honor of coaching optimists and dreamers, and my coachingis simply inspiring them to allow themselves to become who they know they are destined to become.

As soon as we arrived home with my new Beetle, I took this picture. Yes, it was red. This is the “raw” picture and precisely how it looked parked in the driveway.

Here's the kicker, though (and there's always a kicker): as I looked through the screen on my phone, I noticed something I couldn’t quite believe. I was so sure my eyes were playing tricks on me. For so long, on vision boards and in my mind, I’d seen a pink Beetle. I called my husband over and asked him to look at my screen, just to confirm that he saw what I saw. He started freaking out – a completely level-headed response to what was happening. Out comes our neighbor and she has the same reaction. My husband insisted, “Take a screenshot, no one is going to believe this.”

I don’t know about you, but I see a pink Beetle! I’m certain there are a million and one scientific explanations as to why it looks this way on my screen, whether it be the lighting, the settings on my phone, etc., and I’m not discounting that.

However, I’m going to take this opportunity to declare that my little Beetle had already accepted and allowed herself to become what she was destined to become. Yes, I’m giving a lot of life to an inanimate object, but I’m going to take this as a sign that confirms the importance of accepting who we are destined to become.

This is what it's like to have the eyes of an optimist, of a believer. When you learn to believe in yourself, you won't see where you are; instead, you'll focus on where you're going as if you’re already there.

Seeing life through the lens of an optimist affords us the opportunity to appreciate all the potential, beauty, and greatness in everyone. I liken it to what sculptors must see when they look at a block of marble, stone, wood or whatever medium they are working with - being able to envision their final creation. All they have to do is remove what doesn’t belong. What doesn’t belong is what is keeping the rest of us from seeing the masterpiece before it becomes that masterpiece.

We tend to focus on all that doesn’t belong – through the lens of our limiting beliefs, our fears, our doubts, our perceived inadequacy and lack of self-worth - a barrage of negative and fictitious opinions we have created about ourselves, which only serve to diminish expectations in our potential.

Like this little PINK Beetle, I encourage you to rid yourself of what doesn’t belong and begin today to see yourself as you want to be, as who you are destined to become. I guarantee that once you start seeing yourself as that most amazing version of yourself, you will start to feel that you are already that amazing version (because you are). Life will respond accordingly and before you know it, you have created a reality very much in line with who you are and will notice you have actually become your destined amazing self. I promise!!!