It’s funny how
“stuff” from growing up can still be echoing in our minds far into adulthood. I
was taught by my father that we’d never have enough money and that there would
always be more bills than money. Sometimes our family couldn’t get ends to
meet, but at least if the ends waved at each other in passing we felt like we’d
accomplished something.
Perhaps you
were taught that you had to work hard to make a living. You may also believe
that being successful requires a lot of hard word, i.e. long, arduous hours;
sacrificing all personal time; never taking vacations; maybe stepping on more
than a few people; or, knocking them off the next rung of the ladder.
On the other
hand, you may have adopted the “fake it until you make it” stance or preach
that if you just believe you are successful you will be. That creates a VERY
wide gulf between the “work hard to make a living” folks and the blissful dears
who are still waiting for their dreams to come true without doing anything
about it.
What we
believe IS what occurs in our life. Not immediately, thankfully, .e.g. “I wish
I was dead!” That’s a great example of the difference between what we say and what we believe. If we had the concrete beliefs of Jesus of Nazareth,
Paramahansa Yogananda and other people we consider masters we, too, would have
a lot more of what we want in our lives a whole lot quicker.
A common
belief is that being a success is hard. It isn’t. I’m not saying there isn’t
work involved, because there most certainly is. We just have to redefine our thoughts
around the work that usually accompanies success. The word “work” comes from the same root as does the word worship. Do you find your spiritual
practice work? I certainly hope not! So what if your work was an act of
worship? If you had the same confidence in your success as you do in God,
Spirit, Divine Love or whatever you call your Higher Power? Hmmmmm……things that
make you go, Hmmmmm.
Do you realize
how many people out there are trying to sell you their technique to get ahead
in the world, to be a success and make a lot of money? Some are marketing valid
and proven techniques, some are selling snake oil, but all are bent on
convincing you that they have worked their fingers to the bone to create a system
to make it easy for you to be just like them, and all for a mere two, three or
more thousand dollars of training after training after training. Maybe you can even
become a certified trainer in their method to teach others how to channel money
back to them. I find that dizzying.
In the words
of Mike Dooley, the “folks who meet with life success and then tell the world
it was due to their hard work, … almost NEVER work harder than others. They
don't even work smarter than others. They simply leveraged the magic by
thinking, speaking, and acting in line with what they wanted.” How about this
week we all think about leveraging our efforts through doing just that: thinking, speaking and acting in line with
what we want.
Just one
thing: YOU have to figure out what you
want. Oh-oh…there’s another one of those “Hmmmm” moments.
In Spirit,
Truth and Playfulness,
Terry
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