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Are you Avoiding Success?
It’s a loaded question. I’m qualified to ask it though, because at one time I could answer YES!
I did avoid success. I feared the responsibility of it. I feared it would change me for the worst. It hasn’t change me for the worst. Becoming successful in my business has enhanced the virtues I carry, and it will do the same for you.
If you are compassionate, it will make you more so.
If you are focused, it will make you more so.
If you are energetic, it will make you more so.
Success isn’t merely measured by money, its measured by how we take charge of our own lives and how we deal with challenges. Success is a journey.
Yet many, many people never really feel successful in their lives. Chances are even YOU don’t feel as if you are reaching your fullest potential. That is a good thing. Knowing that can assist you to become successful .
Here’s the secret – “successful” people never feel they have reached full potential, they always want to keep growing.
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Last night I was stung by a bee, on my right thumb. The bee was on the cap of a bottle of essential oil I picked up. I didn’t see her and she stung me almost instantaneously.
My first reaction was to cry out (in fact, I swore). My second reaction was to feel compassion for the bee, who would die within an hour. My third reaction was to embrace the pain, to go into it and experience it fully.
How many of us go through life avoiding pain, avoiding risk, avoiding the unknown? I know I did for much of my early life.
My consciousness around pain shifted however. Soon, I began to think how this all relates to the experience of becoming successful as a business owner.
The thing is – and its always the same thing with Personal Growth – is that the experience of change in never comfortable. Change can be exciting, it can pump us up, but it can also fill us with fear…
Unless we make the Decision to become as fearless as possible, to adopt the warrior spirit.
Recently I was speaking with a new friend who had participated in the Sun Dance. Sun Dance is a native American ritual where they insert skewers through the flesh of your chest. To complete the ritual, the participant must tear the skewers from his chest (I suppose women do this too, but I have never met one), which is, I am sure, Exquisitely painful.
The only way to handle this sort of pain is to transcend it and embrace the feeling of pain.
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In the home business industry, and in life, many people play the game Not To Lose.
The people who create the most explosive results play the Game, adamantly, With the intention only of Winning.
Ask yourself, really, are you seeking to avoid pain, avoid risk, avoid failure, or are you seeking to more fully embrace life and grow to your fullest potential.
Your answer will largely determine your success in the home business industry…. and, I daresay, in LIFE.
The post author, Loren Woirhaye writes sales copy and creates marketing systems for business clients who want to slash customer acquisition costs and position their businesses For 20%-30% sales growth in the next 12-18 months. He writes regularly about marketing and life at his Entrepreneur Blog.
