June Column – 2026

June Reflection: Where Did It Come From?

Hello, my friends!!! Just some thoughts for June.

If you ask God for forgiveness, does He forgive you?

Or does He give you the opportunity to forgive?

If you ask God for help, does He help you?

Or does He place before you an opportunity to help someone else?

These are questions I have carried with me for many years. I wonder how faith affects everyday life…

As Father’s Day approaches, I find myself thinking about my father, Sir Jason Winters.

I often wonder where it all came from.

Where did he find the strength to continue after being told he had cancer?

Where did he find the courage to challenge a future that others had already written for him?

Where did his positivity come from?

Where did he find the will to keep moving forward when so many would have surrendered to fear?

And how did a man who once faced a death sentence from his doctors eventually inspire millions around the world?

How did he become a man whom Tony Robbins would later ask to write the foreword to Unlimited Power?

The older I get, the more I believe the answer was not found in a single moment.

It was found in a way of seeing life.

My father believed that every challenge carried a lesson.

Every setback carried a hidden gift. Every day offered another opportunity to choose gratitude over bitterness, hope over fear, and action over despair.

In my book, Kotodama, I explore the power of words and the spirit that lives within them. Words are not merely sounds. They become thoughts. Thoughts become actions. Actions become character. Character becomes destiny.

Perhaps that was my father’s gift.

He spoke life when others spoke limitation.

He spoke possibility when others saw obstacles.

He spoke gratitude when others focused on what was missing.

Maybe that is where his strength came from.

Not from avoiding difficulty, but from choosing the words that gave meaning to it.

This month, I invite you to consider the words you speak to yourself.

When you ask for forgiveness, perhaps forgiveness is already waiting within you.

When you ask for help, perhaps you are being prepared to become the answer to someone else’s prayer.

And when life presents a challenge, perhaps it is also presenting an opportunity.

The opportunity to choose your words.

The opportunity to choose your path.

The opportunity to discover a strength you never knew you possessed.

Perhaps that is where true power comes from.

And perhaps that is what my father understood all along.