11. Day 5: The Wealth You Seek
Yesterday I was feeling rather stumped by this month of extending love to success. I feel it doing a work within me that I cannot actually see yet. I feel this will bubble up into some form of action or practice but right now I am content with just being in the presence of my thoughts about success without ignoring, organizing or fleeing. This morning this thought came to me: The fear that chose me will know what to do; I need but abide in the Love that I AM. I sat for a long time in meditation just enjoying the presence of quiet and spaciousness within me. My thoughts were blissfully...
Read More11. Day 4: Success: A Love Letter
Dearest Success, I have long tried to outrun you for fear of what it might mean if you caught up with me. I felt sure you would require something that I did not have to give. Would it be a talent I didn’t possess? Or that I missed the cue of what to do next? Or would it be the embarrassment of not knowing what to say when I received the requisite honors or adulation. Whatever it is that I have avoided in you I sincerely apologize for. It seems both churlish and clueless to avoid something that could make my days more interesting, richer and possibly more fun. I have been thinking...
Read More11. Day 3: Breathe & Always ASK
I am continuing my bid to extend love to my fear of success (which feels much like a bear breathing down my neck) through reading a well-known and respected book about success by Jack Canfield (“The Success Principles”). I have had the privilege of hearing him speak twice at the BNI International Conference. Most recently in November of last year. It is seeing and hearing him that is giving me the willingness to persevere in the face of a type of book that usually leaves me nauseated or overwhelmed or both. Jack Canfield was a complete joy to hear. He spoke from such a wide...
Read More11. Day 2: The Language Of Success
I am at the “just noticing” stage of my fear of success. One of the things that drew my attention was the language of success. The words you use to describe success, the attitude behind success or the results of success all have a familiar ring. There are certain qualities we tend to think of when we contemplate success, either our own or another’s. It is not just a goal has been met (though that is part of it), or money has been made (thought this is a common measure) or that it is recognized (again, this often feels a part of this process called success). Because I am...
Read More11. Day 1: Gobsmacked! “The Fear That Chose Me”
You are going to love my next fear I am extending love to: “fear of success”! I kept trying to choose another one but this one just stood in the road with a sly grin on its face and said “It is my turn now”. I keep being drawn (as in being drawn then saying no, then being drawn again to seeing ALL is God and worth a look) to this rah, rah, book of Success Principles by Jack Canfield (you know, the guy who wrote the Chicken Soup for the Soul series). I always feel like sh** when I read these success type books and never get past the first chapter. But since it now seems to be my...
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