What Blocks Authentic Success?
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Jamie Walters
Jamie Walters is an inspired 'creative inquirist', transformation guide, inspiration catalyst, and "prophet of an emerging new economy of intelligent, caring, cutting edge entrepreneurs.She is the founder of Ivy Sea, Inc., author of Big Vision, Small Business the handbook for conscious SOHO/Solo enterprise published by Berrett-Koehler — and Leading at the Visionary Edge (forthcoming from ICFAI University Press). She is also the creatrix of Ivy Sea Online.
Jamie integrates her professional / business experience with her energy, shamanic, and Indigenous Wisdom training, to help individuals and organizations cultivate vision, intuition, creativity, and other innate and unique gifts, and apply them in the workplace and other areas of life.
This liberation of this innate 'genius' supports skillful communication, transformation, conscious business,and a meaningful, purpose-aligned way of being and working.
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By Jamie Walters
Published on 11/18/2009
How do you define success? True, authentic success is not something defined by other people, but something that you have defined for yourself. Our deepest yearnings and values provide clues to the definition of success that is truest for us. Authentic success is woven from that which has real heart, joy, and meaning for us. It's an expression of our deepest purpose. What blocks authentic success, then?
What Blocks Authentic Success?
"There is only one success--to be able to spend your life in your own way." ~ Christopher Morley
How do you define success? True, authentic success is not something defined by other people, but something that you have defined for yourself.
Our deepest yearnings and values provide clues to the definition of success that is truest for us. Authentic success is woven from that which has real heart, joy, and meaning for us. It's an expression of our deepest purpose.
What blocks authentic success, then?
The number one block to authentic success is fear; the second is not knowing our own definition of true success; the third is not appreciating our unique value and worth, which gets expressed as authentic success.
Because fear constricts us, it also constricts our ability to tap into our intuition, vision, inspiration, and capacity to be 'in the present moment' -- all of which are required if we're to define what 'true success' means to us and to recognize our value and worth.
Believe me, I understand this really well, from my own journey of living in fear to living with a greater degree of love and trust. Every day, for each of us, it's the Great Work of our times.
Fear takes shape in many ways, from the knot in our guts to habitually anticipating the worst and bracing for impact -- what I call 'negative expectancy'. Often, it's so 'normal' for us that we don't even realize that we're operating primarily from fear.
This isn't a luxury, because living in habitual, unhealthy states of fear cause stress and anxiety that wears on mind, body and spirit. And if we believe in any form of the Law of Attraction, we know that we tend to experience that which we give a lot of thought, feeling, and energy to.
So if fear is the epidemic, what is the antidote?
In almost every spiritual and esoteric tradition, it's said that there are really two choices: Fear or Love. So Love is the most powerful antidote to fear. But how do we cultivate 'the Big Love' that dissolves fear?
There are a variety of powerful practices that help us to shift the habit of being centered in fear -- that allow more space through which intuition, inspiration, and vision can flow.
Some of these practices go right to reshaping habits of thought, while others help us to relax where we've been constricted or shift the energy patterns that literally hold the 'old programs' of fear.
We shift from a constant flow of 'fear thoughts' and negative expectancy to a greater flow of constructive, creative thoughts and positive expectancy.
As we begin to loosen the grip that fear has on us, we have greater access to the higher states that lead us to know what 'true success' is for us -- and allow us to recognize and follow the clues to realizing the experience of it more and more in our lives.
Are you ready to move from fear to Love, and journey into your own authentic version of success and a deep realization of your unique value and worth?
How do you define success? True, authentic success is not something defined by other people, but something that you have defined for yourself.
Our deepest yearnings and values provide clues to the definition of success that is truest for us. Authentic success is woven from that which has real heart, joy, and meaning for us. It's an expression of our deepest purpose.
What blocks authentic success, then?
The number one block to authentic success is fear; the second is not knowing our own definition of true success; the third is not appreciating our unique value and worth, which gets expressed as authentic success.
Because fear constricts us, it also constricts our ability to tap into our intuition, vision, inspiration, and capacity to be 'in the present moment' -- all of which are required if we're to define what 'true success' means to us and to recognize our value and worth.
Believe me, I understand this really well, from my own journey of living in fear to living with a greater degree of love and trust. Every day, for each of us, it's the Great Work of our times.
Fear takes shape in many ways, from the knot in our guts to habitually anticipating the worst and bracing for impact -- what I call 'negative expectancy'. Often, it's so 'normal' for us that we don't even realize that we're operating primarily from fear.
This isn't a luxury, because living in habitual, unhealthy states of fear cause stress and anxiety that wears on mind, body and spirit. And if we believe in any form of the Law of Attraction, we know that we tend to experience that which we give a lot of thought, feeling, and energy to.
So if fear is the epidemic, what is the antidote?
In almost every spiritual and esoteric tradition, it's said that there are really two choices: Fear or Love. So Love is the most powerful antidote to fear. But how do we cultivate 'the Big Love' that dissolves fear?
There are a variety of powerful practices that help us to shift the habit of being centered in fear -- that allow more space through which intuition, inspiration, and vision can flow.
Some of these practices go right to reshaping habits of thought, while others help us to relax where we've been constricted or shift the energy patterns that literally hold the 'old programs' of fear.
We shift from a constant flow of 'fear thoughts' and negative expectancy to a greater flow of constructive, creative thoughts and positive expectancy.
As we begin to loosen the grip that fear has on us, we have greater access to the higher states that lead us to know what 'true success' is for us -- and allow us to recognize and follow the clues to realizing the experience of it more and more in our lives.
Are you ready to move from fear to Love, and journey into your own authentic version of success and a deep realization of your unique value and worth?