Get to the crux
Thursday, January 17, 2008 at 6:20PM Some people get confused about the requirements for success. It doesn't mean you have to foresee and control each step of self-development. Who you see reflected in the mirror isn't the only influence on the direction of your life.
What if you began to understand success means far more than your state of mind? What if each of your thoughts and behaviours was engaged in a much larger process aimed at prompting you to give up what you assume are fundamental beliefs? Would you get to the crux? Would you confront your fear of being successful?
1) Free will. If you are to change any aspect of yourself or your life, then this must be your choice. As far as your ego is concerned, 'success' means encouraging you to stay as you are. Left to your own ingrained desires, you might not choose to confront issues or situations which would enable you to redefine success. You get to decide what will happen. Which direction beckons?
2) Rediscover yourself. Success doesn't require you to become something you're not. Its all about deciding its safe and desirable to let go of and relationships, beliefs, feelings, conditions or emotions that aren't you. Evolution is a gradual process. Its a matter of rediscovering what you already sense in your awareness but have temporarily forgotten. Give up what you have been conditioned to assume.
Reader Comments (3)
I am reading alot about success lately. I guess maybe it is because of the new year. It is the time when people reevalute their lives... where they are, and where they would like to be. I always wish or aim for health and happiness first. I believe with out those key elements, success would be even more difficult! :)
Wishing you a lovely day!
It makes sense to perceive life in stages. Self-examination is a powerful vehicle that promotes greater self-awareness. Each of us arrives at points where we redefine what is tolerable or acceptable. Whenever you decide the phase you're at isn't true to your authentic self, or you can no longer relate to your behavior, you are confronted with a choice to change. Health and happiness are constant and unchanging when we are true to ourselves. This may be seen as a fundamental level of success unrelated to ego. We choose sadness and pain whenever we aren't listening to our core.
Dear Annie,
Bravery is a wonderful subject to connect with your sense of personal success. A willingness to confront suffering, aloneness, discomfort and incompleteness, is to recognize such feelings are illusions. It takes courage to unload emotional burdens you actually create inside. If we hold unresolved, inner issues, no amount of money or perceived, material success will make them go away. In essence, we build our own walls to block success. We also have power to break down these walls, reconnect with our inner selves, and recognize why our lives have not been more abundant.