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Welcome to Ruben Papian TV. Today's episode is Shape your own future. Shape your own future sounds like
future belongs to you, as much as past, as much as present belongs to you. But if you look at your feelings
when we talk about future I think about future. It's something that you cannot grasp, you cannot feel
you cannot own. How come that when I say shape your own future you have to shape something which doesn't
belong to you just because it's in the future. While the past belongs to you, it's in you and you're depending on it.
It actually should be the other way around: you are free of the past; you are able and capable to create the future.
In order to shape your own future you have to understand that the future starts today, not tomorrow.
Tomorrow you have to have hope that your creation will become a reality. But today you have to work on creating
the future; creating your hope by using something you call faith.Now, about faith I will talk in my other episodes,
explaining, describing the anatomy of faith. What you need for sure for the future is hope, create a reason for hope.
Pay attention to what I said: Create the hope, not have it. Just create it and then you can have it.
And usually, how people do it: They have hope without creating it, just hope. No actual reason, no basis,
just hope. And then after a while they're just sitting back and waiting for when that hope will become true.
Now and then it becomes truth, but only now and then, not every time. Just because you didn't create hope, you got it.
In order to give possibility to your hope to become true you have to work on it, create it today.
So we start to create the future by working on hope. And the basis for hope are reasons. Simply: Who am I today?
What am I today? How much am I involved in today, in right now? That's the material that you have to work with and
build hope for the future. And that hope will grow because you didn't miss now and you understand the laws of time.
But it's not enough. And if you create your own hope the right way, what do we do? We still sit back and wait for that
hope to become true. It's like someone else has to work for us in order to create our future just the way we expect
it to be. It doesn't work that way. Creating hope is not the end, it's just the beginning and then you have to believe in
it, in your hope. Because it's your child, it's growing; it's changing itself, becoming an adult. So you have to know:
just look at it and enjoy how it grows. You have to feed it, you have to educate it and you have to present is to the
world. Because the world is the one who has to accept your future. And then the communication between you and the
world makes your future alive and makes you happy.
So, let's start with the first exercise: How to shape your own future.
This state can be compared to falling asleep. My recommendation is to do this exercise every day
in the morning after waking up.