The True Secret of Success
May 13, 2008 | Get Inspired!, A Kick in the Butt
Did I tell you that I was doing a correspondence/online course? It’s through the University of Metaphysical Sciences which has some classes that seriously intrigue me (and of which I can’t get enough) and some classes that are truly challenging my world view (which is a really polite way of saying that I’m not sure I agree with them!). But being as I am a person with a insatiable thirst for knowledge I appreciate them either way. I am basically eating my way through the classes (whenever I can find time for them).
I think one of the most fascinating and yet challenging units has been the World Religion classes. Last week I worked my way through the Witchcraft (more an intellectual conversation than a lesson in how to be one) and Shamanism classes and am currently halfway done Gods, Goddesses, and Mythology.
Yesterday, when I was reading through A New Earth he echoed one of my favorite comments that the Shamanism course had shared. It was the very thing I’d been considering blogging about the other day; I figured the repeat was a good reminder to come by and share it with all of you.
The comment had to do with the true secret of success:
Tolle said:
In order to attract success, you need to welcome it wherever you see it.
If you read The Artist’s Way (Julia Cameron) in one of the chapters (seven actually, I just looked it up) talks about Jealousy. She says that jealousy is nothing more than a mask for fear:
… fear that we aren’t able to get what we want; frustration that somebody else seems to be getting what is rightfully ours even if we are too frightened to reach for it… Jealousy tells us that there is room for only one - one poet, one painter, one whatever you dream of being.
Which means jealousy is, of course, a fabulous guide for helping you to realize what it is you should be doing with your life. And who you truly want to be.
But it seems, according to my Shamanism course, that Hawaiians have a relatively simply philosophy designed to help you attain a joyful life. Basically, their prescription is to:
Bless everyone and everything that represents what you want!
According to Aloha International to bless means “to give recognition or emphasis to a positive quality, characteristic or condition, with the intent that what is recognized or emphasized will increase, endure, or come into being.”
Which just means instead of seething with jealousy we should be blessing (recognizing, emphasizing, multiplying, celebrating) the successes of others so that we can see that very same success coming to pass in our own lives.
You see, the inherent problem with jealousy is that it’s rooted in the idea that there just isn’t enough. Enough of what? Well, whatever it is you want. Enough money. Enough customers. Enough recognition. Enough (you fill in the blank)…
But, if there really is enough; if we live in a world of enough (rather than a world of too little) then there’s no real reason to feel jealous and we really can afford to be happy for all the success happening around us. In fact, instead of their successes signaling one less thing we get to accomplish they become a reassurance, a chorus of reminders that success is, indeed, possible. After all, if they can do it, so can you (as cliche as that expression is, it’s true)!
And of course, success comes more readily to those who believe it will arrive than to those who are too busy being angry about what others have to see success when it passes by.
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