subject: Success in Life--Think You're Ready? [print this page] Success in Life--Think You're Ready? Success in Life--Think You're Ready?
What is the success factor in your life that conquers sabotage or resistance? You may imagine success is what comes to pass on the outside, but actually success happens on the inside. What appears on the outside is the evidence. Most of us like to be successful in life and in our achievements. Is it still possible we undermine our own success and oppose it in subtle ways rather than fully accepting success for ourselves?
Everybody has setbacks and discouragement. The comfortable old shoe can be more familiar than the new as we get set in our ways. When so many people are not succeeding in life, is the secret in our own perspective and mind set? Genuine success has to add value and touch people with something they feel will advance and empower them.
Success begins with a choice, an attitude or pattern in our consciousness, but are we comfortable with actually achieving it in our outward life? On the surface, we enjoy visualizing success for ourselves, but do we have a subtle undercurrent of resistance? We need to be at peace with significant change and the idea that our pattern will be altered.
In healthy children confidence is their natural state. It is natural for us to value achievement and reward, but as we move through life's inescapable ups and downs, we become progressively stronger or weaker. There are frequently winners and losers, we may oscillate between faith and doubt, victory and defeat, meeting challenges and retreating from them. There may be self judgment and doubt that reinforce and limit our own achievement if life hasn't been all sunny for us, and our support structures have not been completely intact. There is a long list of self help books promising to empower us. Just imagine, if they worked, you would only need one!
The key to lasting success in life is to recognize our own self sabotage and release it. This is not part of our core. We can dust ourselves off, pick ourselves up, and start all over again. Hidden resistance is impeding our progress, seeing the truth that we are created whole, can release us from self imposed burdens and a restrictive self image. Remember and know, faith and confidence are our natural to us!
From Think and Grow Rich, to Wayne Dwyer's Intention, to Deepak Chopra's Seven Laws of Success, hundreds of pages and thousands of people, have been devoted to the simple truth: our limitations are within and not permanent but imagined. Real as they may seem, it is only our acquiescence that needs to shift.
We launch our own liberation the instant we recognize deeply, that we already have the key to freedom from our own unreal and self imposed limitations. Picture the photograph of a friend. It is more than simply an image. The photo derives meaning from the feelings we associate, just as feelings infuse our own self image with life. Nothing really holds us back but belief in the reality of our false identity. You are transformed. Be willing, be ready. Removing blockages reveals our natural and true inclination. Feel the freedom to experience progressively greater expression of your higher self, not prideful, but sincere and whole.
