God's day to you!
Everybody wants to suceed. From early on we are given the message that we should strive to not only be good, but to do good; to be good at everything we do; (Which of is next to impossible!). Yet we drive ourselves as if our very lives depended on it.
The questions to consider are:
. What is success to you ?
. What drives you in your life?
. Would you say you are ambitious? How does it show up in your life?
. How do you handle failure?
. What is your greatest failure or embarrassment?
Take a look and make it a valuable day!
Rev. Sylvia
My definition of success has drastically changed over the years. Now, "success" simply means my happiness. While I was once driven by ambition and competition, I am now driven by my desire to awaken. This complete change in attitude has afforded me the luxury of not ever really failing anymore.When I do stumble accross something resembling "failure", I consider it's REAL importance in the big picture and move on. I concentrate on my family, friends, and the things I truly love. I guess the one thing(failurre if I must)regret is that I never had the tools to maintain and sustain an intimate relationship. Now, even that has changed. I feel fully equiped.
ReplyDeleteSuccess to me is accomplishing a goal. At this point, it doesn't matter to me how it's perceived or received by others. Success means I've done what I've set out to do and as long as it was done to the best of my ability, it is a success!
ReplyDeleteI do consider myself to be very ambitious. I am driven by the need to create. I don't take on the idea of "failure" because something will come out of any work. It may not be the desired intention, but if you look deeper, the experience holds a lesson.
My most recent, but not my greatest, embarrassment was when having an invitation printed I sent a file with writing on the back when it should have been blank. It was printed with the text on the back and it was too late to do it over! Luckily, it wasn't something completely random! Embarrassing, nonetheless.
After reading Greg M's response, I feel he wrote his response for me, almost line for line.
ReplyDeleteThe only thing I would change is one sentence - "While I was once driven by ambition and competition, I am now driven by my desire to awaken. ". I have to confess that in the past I felt I SHOULD be driven by ambition and competition, but I never really bought in to it hold hearted, and used to feel "less than" because I wasn't that driven in comparison to others. That has really changed because I see I am driven, and really have always been driven by a desire to awaken. I like that term " a desire to awaken".
Success for me is staying in the present moment. Success for me is to live like God is my Source and bringing my Divine self to every experience.
ReplyDeleteWhat drives me now is my fervent desire to know and experience the fullest of God at such a level that I can live fearlessly. What drives me is my desire to release everything which, in my mind or in reality, appears to separate me from God. I know nothing can. In Rev. Sylvia series on Radical Reliance on Truth, she said that “we can live a life in which not a sliver of fear exists.” I claim that.
My ambition is showing up by moving me out of my comfort zone. Challenging me to take action.
Sometimes I deal with failure by: analyzing whether I did a good enough job an analyzing the options; 2) by chastising myself for not seeing what seems obvious in hindsight and 3) learning the lesson and move on without much fanfare. I am getting much better at number 3.
As I choose to struggle with my job and what I have labeled as demands this is just what I need to hear. Thank you for the lesson.
ReplyDeleteEven in my unconscious state God moves me through my next level of expression. Perhaps I will have a chance to share this revelation. Still I am driven by the need to please everyone else but myself.
Without knowing the words of this lesson, I have been experientially clear that my employment was not all of who I am, and that the jobs I had couldn’t meet most of my needs.
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