SELF SUCCESS IS SELF LOVE – learning to love yourself is the greatest success you will ever know!
SELF SUCCESS
Have you heard enough about the steps to success, climbing the ladder of success, how to achieve success, the laws of success, how to be successful, the secrets of success, how to attract success, and countless other ways to grasp this elusive fantasy that seems to be finding everyone but you?
I am sure you know the definition of success will be different for most individuals. Yes, we have definitely bought into the concept that success appears to equal money and power and living the “good life.” What if we altered our perception or perhaps even defined what the “good life” means – what might we learn then? For most of us, it usually means being healthy, having a loving partner, living in a comfortable home, driving a safe vehicle, having reliable sources of income, living in a safe neighbourhood, or something very similar, and yes, the order is interchangeable.
Don’t most of us have this already? So, why don’t we feel successful and why aren’t we enjoying our good life? What is it that we seem to be reaching out for? We are the ones purchasing the books about more or greater success, and then leaving them on the shelf, thus making them “shelf help” instead of self help. We are the ones attending the workshops and seminars put on by “successful” people on how to achieve never-ending success, and we are certainly pumped up and motivated for at least 24 to 48 hours after the event – but then what happens?
What stops us from going beyond our comfort zone and entering that new arena for the elite called Super Success?
Could it be little voices in our heads that have been whispering their childish, na, na, na, na, nas? The, you can’t do this! Or you don’t have what it takes; nobody’s ever been successful in our family. How about this one, who do you think you are anyway? That’s similar to, that will never happen to you! Why can’t you just be happy with what you’ve got; you’re always chasing something; when will you get your head out of the clouds; you’ll never get a woman/man like that; you’ll never live like ‘those people,’ you’ll never have those things,” etc. etc. etc. And guess what? Those weren’t other people telling you those things – was it? It was YOU, wasn’t it? Oh, yes, we are hardest on ourselves, aren’t we? Certainly, others will rain on your parade but it is you and me who decides whether or not we are going to march in the parade – NO MATTER WHAT!
You get to march into that arena for the elite, but it is not called super success, it is called, SELF SUCCESS.
Oh, here it is another type of success to aspire to. Ah, but if you have this one, all the others will come to YOU.
True SELF SUCCESS is self love.
Loving yourself is the greatest success you will ever know.
Every decision you have ever made in life, whether it was a business choice, the starting or ending of a relationship, financial or personal, small or huge; I can almost guarantee you that it was based on how much you loved yourself or didn’t love yourself at the time of making that choice.
Okay, so what on earth does this mean? Is this what you are asking yourself? Good, I will explain it.
SELF SUCCESS comes from within – always has and always will. You will never find it in a bottle, in chocolate cake, in a pill, in a person, on a remote mountain top, in a new city or country, with a new lover, when you’ve released thirty pounds, when you have a specific dollar amount in the bank, or when the kids finish college, nor with a bit of luck will you find it in the bottom of a Cracker Jack box. Go to the mirror and take a long and deeply profound look at yourself, say something nice to yourself and you will have taken the first step into the arena for the elite.
SELF SUCCESS is true self love.
Can you love yourself for fifteen minutes once a day?
“You have work to do, and you wonder if you can manage it. You hesitate a little, then you make up your mind, and finally you succeed, you lift this weight . . . you move that obstacle. This proves you are capable of such efforts, and in recognizing your possibilities; you feel your force and your faith grow. Faith, then, is linked to the assurance we gain through our triumphs. This law is borne all the more in the spiritual realm. From one effort to another, all your untried capabilities come out into the light of day and make themselves known. But you must be reasonable and begin modestly by accomplishing small things at first.
So many people have been stopped in their evolution
because they failed to begin modestly.”
~ Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov
