It\u2019s funny how \u201cstuff\u201d from growing up can still be echoing in our minds far into adulthood. I was taught by my father that we\u2019d never have enough money and that there would always be more bills than money. Sometimes our family couldn\u2019t get ends to meet, but at least if the ends waved at each other in passing we felt like we\u2019d accomplished something.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
On the other hand, you may have adopted the \u201cfake it until you make it\u201d stance or preach that if you just believe you are successful you will be. That creates a VERY wide gulf between the \u201cwork hard to make a living\u201d folks and the blissful dears who are still waiting for their dreams to come true without doing anything about it.<\/p>\n
What we believe IS what occurs in our life. Not immediately, thankfully, .e.g. \u201cI wish I was dead!\u201d That\u2019s a great example of the difference between what we say<\/em> and what we believe.<\/em> 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.<\/p>\n A common belief is that being a success is hard. It isn\u2019t. I\u2019m not saying there isn\u2019t work involved, because there most certainly is. We just have to redefine our thoughts around the work that usually accompanies success.<\/em> The word \u201cwork\u201d comes from the same root as does the word worship.<\/em> 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\u2026\u2026things that make you go, Hmmmmm.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n In the words of Mike Dooley, the \u201cfolks who meet with life success and then tell the world it was due to their hard work, \u2026 almost NEVER work harder than others. They don\u2019t even work smarter than others. They simply leveraged the magic by thinking, speaking, and acting in line with what they wanted.\u201d How about this week we all think about leveraging our efforts through doing just that:\u00a0 thinking, speaking and acting in line with what we want.<\/p>\n Just one thing:\u00a0 YOU have to figure out what you want. Oh-oh\u2026there\u2019s another one of those \u201cHmmmm\u201d moments.<\/p>\n In Spirit, Truth and Playfulness,<\/p>\n Terry<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It\u2019s funny how \u201cstuff\u201d from growing up can still be echoing in our minds far into adulthood. I was taught by my father that we\u2019d never have enough money and that there would always be more bills than money. Sometimes our family couldn\u2019t get ends to meet, but at least if the ends waved at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1674,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,85,82],"tags":[196,197,193,195,149,194],"class_list":["post-625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finding-peace","category-spiritual-living-2","category-spirituality-2","tag-abundance","tag-happiness","tag-hard-work","tag-overworked","tag-success","tag-work"],"yoast_head":"\n