Fear of Success – A Twelvemonth of Self Love

I Can’t Go Anywhere Without My Self

Eva Lisle — Thu, 18 Feb 2016 22:55:18 +0000

I have just finished a teleconference call with Jack Canfield (you remember my buddy I walked with during my month of extending love to my fear of success) and branding expert Nick Nanton (who I only know through email updates) about publishing a best-selling book. It seemed harmless enough to listen to the call. I mean, how could I not listen to find out how I could publish a best-selling book...

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11. Day 28: Success Is Always An Option

Eva Lisle — Sat, 28 Feb 2015 13:47:56 +0000

I must admit, here at the end of the month of extending love to the fear of success that I have little to report except the obvious. Failure is never final. Success is ALWAYS an option. I know. You already knew that. It’s like saying the Crown Jewels are breathtaking. But why?? Why is success always an option? There are times that failure is death or catastrophic mess or pain, what then?

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11. Day 27: Feelings Communicate; Are You Listening?

Eva Lisle — Fri, 27 Feb 2015 13:08:25 +0000

Yesterday was a day of feeling. Or rather trying to keep down feelings like someone on board a boat tries to keep lunch down while coursing over the heavy chop. The feelings leak out of course as eventually lunch does when seasickness overtakes. It is inconvenient, messy and leaves you feeling drained. Perhaps that is the true purpose of feelings, to drain you of what is not you until all that is...

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11. Day 26: 100 Reasons Why Feedback Is Love Too

Eva Lisle — Thu, 26 Feb 2015 13:08:38 +0000

Yesterday I wrote about a recent experience with some negative feedback I had received. Getting negative feedback is as helpful as getting positive feedback but it often doesn’t feel like that at first. Sometimes feedback makes you crazy or angry or hurt. Sometimes it makes you want to run, flee or change your name. I needed a list to help me remember when I am stuck in the deafening place of not...

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11. Day 25: I Can Drop The “F”

Eva Lisle — Wed, 25 Feb 2015 13:20:35 +0000

Here is a new way to notice, receive and welcome all that is happening around you. It is ALL feedback. It is information of one kind or another that lets you know if you are on target. The trick is, you get to set the target or goal. If your goal is to be at peace, finish college, run to the end of the block or reorganize your office everything that happens around you can be considered feedback or...

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11. Day 24: All Paths Are Blessed

Eva Lisle — Tue, 24 Feb 2015 13:09:04 +0000

One of the things that dissuades me from fully inhabiting success is the feeling that I would have to leave something or someone behind and I never like to leave anyone (or anything if my garage is anything to go on) behind. Like the success principle I referred to yesterday about letting go of negative people in your life helps move you toward your own positivity and success. But perhaps there is...

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11. Day 23: Loving Thy Neighbor

Eva Lisle — Mon, 23 Feb 2015 13:32:21 +0000

I have come across the very accepted idea relating to success that in order to maintain and nurture positive thinking look closely at who you associate with because this affects your own positive thinking. While this is, indeed, true, that you can be and are affected by negativity in your midst I must add my own experience with this. While I completely agree that you can be and are influenced by...

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11. Day 22: Editing As Spiritual Practice

Eva Lisle — Sun, 22 Feb 2015 13:35:21 +0000

I discovered during my new poetry class that I no longer fear the judgment of the editing process. I still feel tentative in my editing however and would like to know more about this process and how to go about it without being mired in self doubt and overthink. Is this possible or does the process just allow more to come up for healing? HS: Precious One, “Come along with me, the best is yet to be.

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11. Day 21: The Ecstasy Of Ekphrasis

Eva Lisle — Sat, 21 Feb 2015 14:15:54 +0000

Since learning to extend love to my fear of success has to include the opportunity for success (and failure), I signed up for a poetry class at the Crocker Art Museum. Poetry is very near and dear to my heart because this was the first way I was conscious of my heart voice and the Holy Spirit speaking to me. It was so unusual to find my self writing poetry it really grabbed my attention.

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11. Day 20: In Order To Form A More Perfect Union

Eva Lisle — Fri, 20 Feb 2015 13:51:13 +0000

I was really struck by a new definition of success in yesterday’s daily reading from Tama Kieves wonderful new book “A Year Without Fear” (of course I love this book;): “You don’t regret the past. You regret the present. You regret the past only when you’re not wildly in love with all you’re right now and all you are experiencing in this time. Change the moment before you, and you change how you...

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