Everyone wants to learn the secrets of being successful in life. There are many people who have achieved success in this world. We seek to know how did they manage to achieve it, so that we can become successful like they are. We read a lot of books about how people become successful, but yet so many of us are still struggling with achieving our own success even though we posses such knowledge. What is the mystery that is holding people back from the success that seems so elusive to achieve?
We are taught that to be successful, you must have goals in life. You must work hard towards them and you must take advantage of opportunities that come your way. You must take a lot of action and make lots of mistakes in order to learn from them. You must be disciplined and diligent in your work. You must think creatively and try all kinds of ways to get results. You must get to know the right people who can help you. You must believe in yourself and you must persevere all the way until success.
Thinking about success this way makes it seem like it is so hard to achieve. It seems to take a lot of effort and energy. It seems that success is something that doesn't come to us, but we must fight for it. We wonder why life is such a struggle. Why can't we just relax and enjoy living it. Why can't we simply experience everything we desire in an easy and effortless way. It just seems so wrong that this is the nature of success. The truth is that it really is wrong to think that success is so difficult to get.
The reason why we have been taught all those things about success is because it has been studied from the wrong angle. There are people who try to study the secrets of successful people and to figure out what is it that they do to achieve big things. They try to study their actions and their characteristics. But they are looking at it from an outside-in perspective. They do not know what's really going on in the inside of these people. Sometimes even successful people also teach from an outside-in perspective.
But when you look from an inside-out perspective, someone who appears to have persistence, is simply doing something because they have a great desire to fulfill an idea that they have. It is not that they are trying to persevere in doing something, but it's that they just can't stop doing it because it's something they want to express or create. Perseverance and persistence isn't even on their mind. It's ridiculous to drive yourself to do anything at all. They are just being totally driven in the direction they are taking.
They do not try to set goals to achieve things, but they are following what is already in their heart to do. They do not go around searching for opportunities and grabbing any they can find. They simply do what their heart desires to do, and to go for anything that allows them to express more of it. Situations show up along the path that they are on to bring them further and to greater heights. They do not try to network with as many people as they can, but they simply relate with those they are drawn towards.
When you do something you are naturally drawn towards, all the energy, drive and opportunities will just show up to aide you along. That is because what is in your heart is your purpose. The universe has chosen and created you for a special part in everything, and it is directing you from within. The universe has also arranged everything necessary for the fulfillment of your purpose to be present along the path. You are not trying to create anything at all because it is all already there when you step into it.
People can try to set goals and work hard and do all the things necessary to achieve success and succeed at it. But they still won't be truly happy and fulfilled when they achieve it. That is because they have set out to achieve what they think they should achieve when it isn't really what they want. They bought into the world's idea or someone else's about what success is, rather than allowing spirit to guide them. True success is expressing what makes you happy deep down within and living it fully.
You can also follow your passion and do what you truly desire to do and still find it such a struggle. That is because you are trying to work at it rather than allowing it to work through you. You may be doing something you like, but end up doing it for something else rather than doing it for the pure expression of it. That is why many people who started out doing what they love end up being miserable because they strayed from the path. You must always remember to focus on doing because you love doing it.
The characteristics of success are what is observed when looking at it from an outside-in perspective. We miss the point when we are trying to model the ways by which successful people achieve their success when they are simply following their personal guidance. You cannot look at what someone else is doing and follow it to get what you want. You have to do it your own way by allowing yourself to be guided from within. You have to shine your own light just like they shine theirs. Follow your purpose.
We are taught that you must have the right mental attitude in order to flourish at what you do. But the right mental attitude will be present naturally when you do what you love, rather than trying to love what you do. If you simply do not love what you are doing
, then you shouldn't do it because it is not what the universe has chosen you to do. You must change to doing what you truly love because that is where your success is waiting for you to live it. Love comes naturally when you do heart work not hard work.
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