Issue #24
Where are you going?
There's a LOT of value
in the self-help movement placed on getting
prosperous, and although it may be empowering and
exciting at times to go for the gold, sometimes it
causes frustration, confusion, and a sense of
inadequacy. If you've been doing affirmations,
visualizations, and goal setting exercises and have
nothing to show for it don't assume you're stuck.
You may be knocking on the wrong door. Before you
use your lack of "success" to beat yourself over the
head, take a really close look at what you REALLY
want or need. Maybe you already have it. Don't get
seduced into thinking that, just because others have
done it, you've got to do the same. If you're not
swept up by the enthusiasm of a new project or a new
goal, sit tight. Maybe you haven't really found your
passion and you're pursuing the dream you THINK you
should want. Or, maybe it's just time to do some
inner work. In fact, getting caught up in outer
achievement is a common method for distracting
yourself from the deep work of healing your soul.
So, appreciate your life. See your lack of riches as
simplicity...a lucky circumstance from which you're
ideally prepared to go within.
"To live content with small means; to seek
elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather
than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and
wealthy, not, rich; to listen to stars and birds,
babes and sages, with open heart; to study hard; to
think quietly, act frankly, talk gently, await
occasions, hurry never; in a word, to let the
spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through
the common--this is my symphony."
-William Henry Channing |
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