Presence

Have you ever been in a room when a star walked in? It could have been a movie star, a stage star, or just one of the star salesmen where you work. Even if you weren't looking at the door, did you know they were in the room? Of course you did.

Stars have presence. They have have a special energy that draws our attention to them. That's why news channels report on their exploits, web sites chronicle their every move, and magazines trumpet their every romantic entanglement. People want to know.

Stars didn't always start out that way, though. At one time, Tom Cruise was just another young actor trying to break into movies. Tom Hanks was thrilled to get a job as a cross-dressing actor in a sitcom, Bosom Buddies. And every Nobel Prize winning economist was once a struggling graduate student.

So if you're not a star in your own life yet, that doesn't mean you can't become one in the future. It doesn't matter what you've done in the past -- what matters is what you're doing to do with your life going forward. Today is the youngest that you'll ever be -- Make up your mind that you want to change your life, and you can.

In my next post I'll talk more about HOW you can do this.