Definition of a role model: A person who serves as a model in a particular behavioral or social role for another person to emulate.
A role model is someone worthy of imitation!
Every person needs a good role model, a person who is worth following. But who is your role model? Is that someone you know? Does the person have a positive influence on your life? This world is looking for people to follow. This world is looking for heroes. Usually people look for role models in television from movies and series to the world of music and sports. People who appear on TV are looked at as big stars and heroes. But are they what they pretend? Some of them are and some of them are NOT!
Almost every day when I go on the Internet to read my newspaper, I get shocked when I read stories about so called role models. Some of these stars are acting like they own the world and can do whatever they want without realizing that millions of people who are looking at them. Millions of teenagers are impacted by what they are doing. Millions of teenagers are imitating what their stars are doing. I don’t want to mention any names, but some of these people have such a bad destructive lifestyle that only destroys and kills. This might sound harsh, but its the truth! No wonder why so many teenagers are suffering from depression and anorexia.
These stars are showing a life that is not normal and no-one can live up to that (or down to that!). They have a perfect body (after 25 surgeries!) but tell me how on earth is that normal? They are doing all kinds of things on the stage that only belongs in an x rated movie. And that is supposed to be normal? I don’t think so.
Everybody is looking for a hero and role model on television. Its like, if it is on television, it is the truth and the real thing and nobody can question it. But instead of looking for role models in television, we should look for real life heroes in our real life.
Who are you following? Who is your hero? Are you living someone else image? Do you dare to be yourself? Do you dare to be different? Are you hanging around with a group of people where you try to be as cool as possible and where you are caring a mask, so that no one can see who you really are? I have some advice for you; Do not swim with the stream of dead fish. But create your own steam of life and be a leader and a role model yourself.
A good role model could be you or somebody else. It is someone who acts and believes in the good of a person. A real life hero is not wearing a mask; he/she doesn’t have to be someone else, but is just like he/she is. Be yourself and people will love you for it and follow you!
You can be a leader!
You can show the way and be a role model. Stand up and make an impact you’re your life. People are waiting for someone like you to step up. To be the positive influence you can be. You can be a great leader if you dare to step up in front and lead the way.
Becoming a great influence and leader in this world takes time and is a few steps each day. Few steps of good choices that influence the people around you, and then you will become a role model.
God has a great plan for your life and He wants you to be a leader of influence. The best that you can ever do with your life is to give it all to him, every small and big thing in your life. Staying close to Jesus will make you succeed in life. Staying close to God will make you succeed in life.
People will follow you if they see the good in you. So live your life with good and healthy choices. Think about the consequences that your choices will have. Be a supportive and encouraging friend, show with your life that you care about others.
Guide Keys: Don’t wear a mask! Just be yourself. Help others with support. If someone talks bad about your friend and you hear it, then stand up and rebuke them. Protect your friends and they will protect you.
About the Author
Peter Hansen is a dynamic Christian speaker who has spoken to thousands of people about faith and lifestyle and being involved with relief work in many countries. Angel Relief is a Christian humanitarian relief organization helping the homeless and poor. Angel Relief
Thursday, January 22, 2009
Sacred Love - The Second Law of Nature - Growing from Challenge Part 11
Inspiration is the ability to manage that whole process of growth
To be inspired, we need stillness within. That means to see this tic toc between order and chaos in our lives and rather than fight it, actually manage it. Infatuation with order will breed huge chaos. Instead, we can say, ‘oh, there’s a challenge, where is the balance in that, oh there’s a winner where’s the balance in that’
In the diagram above, we call it the consciousness cone, inspiration is at the top. You can see that a person who is at their highest ego state at the bottom is spending huge amounts of energy in emotion, running from very happy, to very sad. From infatuation to resentment. This is the lotto winner who, without the mindset to manage it, spends their winnings within months and ends up in more debt than they had before winning.
Moderation is the keyword at the top, it is a focus on something more that wild upsides and deep depressive downsides. This is the middle path, where love and inspiration are a priority. Very few people can sustain this level of growth. They most often yoyo up and down the cone some days at the top, others at the bottom.
Viewpoint is everything. The person who prioritizes their ego sees the world from their own circumstances and looks out at it. To them, when they look at the stars, they are at the center and the whole universe is rotating around them. To the inspired individual, they look at the stars and it appears they are on the outer looking in. The ego driven individual will take everything personally and become disturbed by the small things of life. The inspired individual see the balance in everything and takes nothing personally, to them, there is no self to take anywhere.
To the inspired individual, there is no soul, there is no individuality to identify with, not even a good and bad to protect. To the inspired individual there is work and life and love and doing. The elations and depressions of it all are just seasons of the day, there is simply no need to react.
The search for truth, is the search beyond self. That truth lies hidden below the ego. When the fog is cleared everyday life becomes transparent we see the beauty that lies beneath.
One moment standing in the midst of nature’s orchestra with an open heart seems like a whole lifetime, if we are in tune with her rhythm.
‘What can be learned from books means so much, yet, it is all someone else’s, repeated, regurgitated, recapitulated, renovated, rejuvenated truth. We must learn to write our own books, instead of parroting what others have said, and in this, let nature be our guide’ The ground is steep, the rocks are wet, we must take care of each other. There is no alone, with Inspiration, one is never alone. Every tree is a sacred friend, every footstep divine, the rocks are mates ready to lend a hand. Inspiration teaches us friendship with nature. We learn to be humble to the power that is greater than ourselves, not because of fear or faith, but through trust in the heart of the divine. Nature is our witness.
Everyday inspiration does not come from sitting in caves with crossed legs, (although that’s how Chris found it) it comes from life and an understanding of it. Whether we are fishing off the pier or swinging a billion dollar deal, singing in the shower or to a million people, we see beauty, we see life and we are in awe of it.
The first step is to unlock what has already been learned and then unlearn it. This unlearning is what is called the gaining of real wisdom. In the past you may have said ‘that person is bad’. This is knowledge taken from our learning, but such learning and judgment are in defiance of natural law because the experience is one sided. It is out of balance, and all emotion ‘ including your emotional downers ‘ comes from imbalanced thought. Emotional downers is the product of an imbalanced thought about something or someone in the past.
Unlearning is to see the circumstance differently. There is always two sides to that person or situation, you just never saw it. When you see the goodness in a situation you have already called bad, you have unlearned; you have seen with two eyes. You learn by seeing one half of the story; then unlearn and see two sides. This makes the learning complete.
Nature’s law pervades every walk of life so it is not specifically what you think that matters, it is how you think that makes the difference. You must change how you think from one sided learning (causes depression) to balanced thinking (causes love).
S came to me for a consult. She was 18 but looked 12. For nearly 5 years she had been diagnosed as depressed and due to that had taken on board some eating disorders. Her mother was with us in the consult and was obviously shattered by her daughters declining health.
Eating disorders that deprive the body of nourishment are self deprecating, something about S, was so unacceptable, in her opinion, that she wanted no body to live in, she was trying to eliminate her physical presence on earth (bulimia or anorexia). In S case anorexia because she was not vacillating between infatuation and resentment. She was only conscious of her depressions.
Emotional downers, looked at from the point of view of natures law, is an obsession with a self righteous set of beliefs that are stubbornly held in the individuals mind against the backdrop of everyday life. Remember, there are two sides to everything, Expressed and Repressed. The expressed disappointment with life is the balance to the repressed belief that the depressed person knows what is best for themselves and others.
So there were two issues. One a thought that S was holding onto that was causing her to become depressed. The other was nature destroying her body, which meant she was not fulfilling, or had already fulfilled her purpose.
Me ‘ so, tell me what you like and dislike about life’ S ‘I dislike everything.’ Me ‘money’’ S ‘yes, money makes people mean and cruel’ Me ‘your mum’ S ‘yes, my mum doesn’t love me she just wants to fix me so I get out of her hair’ Me ‘your Dad’’ S ‘I hate my dad’ Me ‘so what is your dream’’ S ‘ I don’t care’ After an hour of this Me ‘when you were a little girl, what was your dream’’ S ‘I don’t know’ Me ‘yes you do’ After another half an hour S ‘I used to dream of becoming a dress designer.’ After another half an hour she shared more an more Me ‘and why is there a problem becoming a dress designer’ S ‘it’s too hard, there are too many people doing it, I’m not good at it, It’s a cut throat industry’ Me ‘so if that’s what you think about the real world, that means in your fantasy you believe you are better than everyone else but no one recognizes it’ S ‘yes. And’’ Me ‘when we have such inspirations about ourselves its usually because something happened really painful and we create a fantasy of ourselves inside our mind. Then when we can’t live that fantasy, we get angry at the world and want to go somewhere where our fantasy can become reality’ S ‘so’’ Me ‘so where are you going to be able to live your fantasy you’ S ‘heaven’
To extract the gift from our life path, we must get beyond the ego, and to do that we must become an empty cup. This means letting go of and changing some of your judgments about people in the past or present. Often a person, like P, comes to me and says "here I am. Can you help me spiritually’", to which I answer, "yes". Then they say "I want to know what you think about life and death, or about the beginning and end of existence". This prompts me to wonder what their attitude will be if their existing opinion does not agree with mine. They seem to want to learn, yet they do not want to be empty of their preconceptions and expectations. That means going to the stream wanting water, but keeping one's cup covered up,
A full cup is the ego, jammed full of beliefs, identities and ideals which prevent change. They are learned ego responses that have served you in the past, but maybe blocking you now. They maybe blocking your heart from being open, but instead of changing the thoughts and ego attachment people will change their relationship instead. This is a high cost, to keep infatuating the ego. With emptiness, comes an innocence that is open to change. With that emptiness comes trust to open and let go, find love and the recognition that there is an order in each chaos and we do not need to fight.
P came to me really depressed. ‘I have had cancer 10 times and now it’s 11. I want to know if there is anything I can do to stop this’
Me ‘so, what have you done to heal it 10 times, that sounds amazing’
P ‘I have gone to India to get rid of my bad Karma. I now meditate for peace and love and bring in the healing’
Me ‘and what were you doing before that’’
P ‘I was a Christian and I prayed for love’
Me ‘and before that’’
P ‘ I studied comparative religion before I got cancer. I wanted to be a priest and bring love to the world’
Me ‘do you want to question this idea of love you have for the world’
P ‘who do you think you are. What a waste of time. How can you call yourself a spiritual teacher when you think spirituality is not about love’ You have no idea.
Me ‘I guess not. But I am doing something different to you, and you don’t want to know what it is. So I can’t really help you until you are ready.’
P ‘thanks for nothing’
Me ‘sorry I couldn’t help’
The purpose of this article is to discuss the second law of nature, the law of growth. Personal growth comes from changing your mind. When things happen, you can go into a downward spiral or change your mind. I you change you mind you can grow, if you don’t then you will simply have to deal with the issue at hand.
http://www.chriswalker.com.au Chris Walker is a world leading change agent, an environmentalist and author of more than 20 books. Born and bred in Australia, he consults to people and organisations throughout the world on improved relationships, health and lifestyle through the application of the Universal laws of Nature. The result he offers is that we stay balanced, share loving relationships, work with passion, enjoy success, and live our personal truth. To learn more about Chris’s work and journeys to Nepal, visit http://www.chriswalker.com.au -- http://www.chriswalker.com.au
To be inspired, we need stillness within. That means to see this tic toc between order and chaos in our lives and rather than fight it, actually manage it. Infatuation with order will breed huge chaos. Instead, we can say, ‘oh, there’s a challenge, where is the balance in that, oh there’s a winner where’s the balance in that’
In the diagram above, we call it the consciousness cone, inspiration is at the top. You can see that a person who is at their highest ego state at the bottom is spending huge amounts of energy in emotion, running from very happy, to very sad. From infatuation to resentment. This is the lotto winner who, without the mindset to manage it, spends their winnings within months and ends up in more debt than they had before winning.
Moderation is the keyword at the top, it is a focus on something more that wild upsides and deep depressive downsides. This is the middle path, where love and inspiration are a priority. Very few people can sustain this level of growth. They most often yoyo up and down the cone some days at the top, others at the bottom.
Viewpoint is everything. The person who prioritizes their ego sees the world from their own circumstances and looks out at it. To them, when they look at the stars, they are at the center and the whole universe is rotating around them. To the inspired individual, they look at the stars and it appears they are on the outer looking in. The ego driven individual will take everything personally and become disturbed by the small things of life. The inspired individual see the balance in everything and takes nothing personally, to them, there is no self to take anywhere.
To the inspired individual, there is no soul, there is no individuality to identify with, not even a good and bad to protect. To the inspired individual there is work and life and love and doing. The elations and depressions of it all are just seasons of the day, there is simply no need to react.
The search for truth, is the search beyond self. That truth lies hidden below the ego. When the fog is cleared everyday life becomes transparent we see the beauty that lies beneath.
One moment standing in the midst of nature’s orchestra with an open heart seems like a whole lifetime, if we are in tune with her rhythm.
‘What can be learned from books means so much, yet, it is all someone else’s, repeated, regurgitated, recapitulated, renovated, rejuvenated truth. We must learn to write our own books, instead of parroting what others have said, and in this, let nature be our guide’ The ground is steep, the rocks are wet, we must take care of each other. There is no alone, with Inspiration, one is never alone. Every tree is a sacred friend, every footstep divine, the rocks are mates ready to lend a hand. Inspiration teaches us friendship with nature. We learn to be humble to the power that is greater than ourselves, not because of fear or faith, but through trust in the heart of the divine. Nature is our witness.
Everyday inspiration does not come from sitting in caves with crossed legs, (although that’s how Chris found it) it comes from life and an understanding of it. Whether we are fishing off the pier or swinging a billion dollar deal, singing in the shower or to a million people, we see beauty, we see life and we are in awe of it.
The first step is to unlock what has already been learned and then unlearn it. This unlearning is what is called the gaining of real wisdom. In the past you may have said ‘that person is bad’. This is knowledge taken from our learning, but such learning and judgment are in defiance of natural law because the experience is one sided. It is out of balance, and all emotion ‘ including your emotional downers ‘ comes from imbalanced thought. Emotional downers is the product of an imbalanced thought about something or someone in the past.
Unlearning is to see the circumstance differently. There is always two sides to that person or situation, you just never saw it. When you see the goodness in a situation you have already called bad, you have unlearned; you have seen with two eyes. You learn by seeing one half of the story; then unlearn and see two sides. This makes the learning complete.
Nature’s law pervades every walk of life so it is not specifically what you think that matters, it is how you think that makes the difference. You must change how you think from one sided learning (causes depression) to balanced thinking (causes love).
S came to me for a consult. She was 18 but looked 12. For nearly 5 years she had been diagnosed as depressed and due to that had taken on board some eating disorders. Her mother was with us in the consult and was obviously shattered by her daughters declining health.
Eating disorders that deprive the body of nourishment are self deprecating, something about S, was so unacceptable, in her opinion, that she wanted no body to live in, she was trying to eliminate her physical presence on earth (bulimia or anorexia). In S case anorexia because she was not vacillating between infatuation and resentment. She was only conscious of her depressions.
Emotional downers, looked at from the point of view of natures law, is an obsession with a self righteous set of beliefs that are stubbornly held in the individuals mind against the backdrop of everyday life. Remember, there are two sides to everything, Expressed and Repressed. The expressed disappointment with life is the balance to the repressed belief that the depressed person knows what is best for themselves and others.
So there were two issues. One a thought that S was holding onto that was causing her to become depressed. The other was nature destroying her body, which meant she was not fulfilling, or had already fulfilled her purpose.
Me ‘ so, tell me what you like and dislike about life’ S ‘I dislike everything.’ Me ‘money’’ S ‘yes, money makes people mean and cruel’ Me ‘your mum’ S ‘yes, my mum doesn’t love me she just wants to fix me so I get out of her hair’ Me ‘your Dad’’ S ‘I hate my dad’ Me ‘so what is your dream’’ S ‘ I don’t care’ After an hour of this Me ‘when you were a little girl, what was your dream’’ S ‘I don’t know’ Me ‘yes you do’ After another half an hour S ‘I used to dream of becoming a dress designer.’ After another half an hour she shared more an more Me ‘and why is there a problem becoming a dress designer’ S ‘it’s too hard, there are too many people doing it, I’m not good at it, It’s a cut throat industry’ Me ‘so if that’s what you think about the real world, that means in your fantasy you believe you are better than everyone else but no one recognizes it’ S ‘yes. And’’ Me ‘when we have such inspirations about ourselves its usually because something happened really painful and we create a fantasy of ourselves inside our mind. Then when we can’t live that fantasy, we get angry at the world and want to go somewhere where our fantasy can become reality’ S ‘so’’ Me ‘so where are you going to be able to live your fantasy you’ S ‘heaven’
To extract the gift from our life path, we must get beyond the ego, and to do that we must become an empty cup. This means letting go of and changing some of your judgments about people in the past or present. Often a person, like P, comes to me and says "here I am. Can you help me spiritually’", to which I answer, "yes". Then they say "I want to know what you think about life and death, or about the beginning and end of existence". This prompts me to wonder what their attitude will be if their existing opinion does not agree with mine. They seem to want to learn, yet they do not want to be empty of their preconceptions and expectations. That means going to the stream wanting water, but keeping one's cup covered up,
A full cup is the ego, jammed full of beliefs, identities and ideals which prevent change. They are learned ego responses that have served you in the past, but maybe blocking you now. They maybe blocking your heart from being open, but instead of changing the thoughts and ego attachment people will change their relationship instead. This is a high cost, to keep infatuating the ego. With emptiness, comes an innocence that is open to change. With that emptiness comes trust to open and let go, find love and the recognition that there is an order in each chaos and we do not need to fight.
P came to me really depressed. ‘I have had cancer 10 times and now it’s 11. I want to know if there is anything I can do to stop this’
Me ‘so, what have you done to heal it 10 times, that sounds amazing’
P ‘I have gone to India to get rid of my bad Karma. I now meditate for peace and love and bring in the healing’
Me ‘and what were you doing before that’’
P ‘I was a Christian and I prayed for love’
Me ‘and before that’’
P ‘ I studied comparative religion before I got cancer. I wanted to be a priest and bring love to the world’
Me ‘do you want to question this idea of love you have for the world’
P ‘who do you think you are. What a waste of time. How can you call yourself a spiritual teacher when you think spirituality is not about love’ You have no idea.
Me ‘I guess not. But I am doing something different to you, and you don’t want to know what it is. So I can’t really help you until you are ready.’
P ‘thanks for nothing’
Me ‘sorry I couldn’t help’
The purpose of this article is to discuss the second law of nature, the law of growth. Personal growth comes from changing your mind. When things happen, you can go into a downward spiral or change your mind. I you change you mind you can grow, if you don’t then you will simply have to deal with the issue at hand.
http://www.chriswalker.com.au Chris Walker is a world leading change agent, an environmentalist and author of more than 20 books. Born and bred in Australia, he consults to people and organisations throughout the world on improved relationships, health and lifestyle through the application of the Universal laws of Nature. The result he offers is that we stay balanced, share loving relationships, work with passion, enjoy success, and live our personal truth. To learn more about Chris’s work and journeys to Nepal, visit http://www.chriswalker.com.au -- http://www.chriswalker.com.au
The Real Secret to Living Your Dreams
Stop, right here and right now, and ask yourself this critical question about your dream: Do you really believe you can have what you want?
Or do you tend to operate with your feet in two camps -- one that says, 'I'm going out there and pursue my dream' and another that says, 'I'll also hedge my bets by doing something I don't love that much, just in case the dream thing doesn't work out.' This is what Persephone Zill, a coach I've worked with, would call 'indirectness' and I'm here to say that it doesn't work.
I've spent a lot of time in life hedging my bets under the mistaken illusion that this is mature, business-like behavior. The real irony is that seldom have these supposedly businesslike ideas ever produced income or other results that I thought for sure they would.
The urge to hedge your bets often runs contrary to everything your gut instincts scream at you to do. For instance, say you want to be a teacher. Your instinct says 'Quit the job! Go get licensed! Be a teacher kids never forget!' Meanwhile, you hedge your bets by dedicating most of your energy to work that doesn't feed your soul, and taking a course here and there that never really moves you any closer to the dream. You justify your lack of action by insisting you can't afford to quit or alter your job, or deciding you don't want to change your lifestyle and live on a teacher's salary.
And yet ... what do you want?
Do you want the excuses, or do you want the results? Do you want a life that's halfway, but never all the way, to the dream? For a lot of us, the excuses, and the half-baked life are all we think we deserve.
We don't focus on getting what we want because somewhere along the way, we decided we don't deserve that much happiness and fulfillment. I trace my own inclination to think that way back to a pivotal lunch with my mother back in my senior year in high school, when she asked me what I wanted to do with my life. As I was about to answer, 'Be a singer or a writer,' she pointed a finger at me and announced triumphantly, 'Communications! You're going to be GREAT in communications!' Whereupon I promptly burst into tears, and went on to spend 18 years in advertising, 'communicating' and hating myself all the while.
Seeds get planted that should not have been allowed to grow; ideas get listened to that should have been ignored. We cast about looking for anyone else but ourselves to give us direction -- and yet, WE are the only ones who can give us the permission to really, truly, honestly create what we want in life.
We can do what we want, but only if we are brave enough to seize the initiative -- even if it means not listening to Mom and going it alone. The urge not to provide ourselves with what we need in life is a sort of creative anorexia, deprivation that is all about a distorted picture of who we are and what we deserve. The real irony is that seldom do the contingency plans and hedged bets work out. During my entire career in advertising I never made half the salary that my other, more eager co-workers made. The simple fact was that I didn't want to be there, nor should I have been. Consequently, I couldn't produce the results that were expected of me.
(As a footnote to this, however, I will say that Spirit always has a plan -- for now I use what I learned all those years in advertising in my work helping coaches, speakers and consultants brand themselves and build platform. And now that I'm promoting something I actually care about ... I love it.)
Perhaps the road to getting what you want won't be fast, easy or lined with gold, but it will be one hundred percent honest. And that provides riches you can't even begin to count. So get out there, make a transitional plan you can stick to, and begin to do what you want.
I'm here to say that you do, indeed, deserve it.
2006 Suzanne Falter-Barns LLC.
For information on how to find the time, energy, money to live your purpose in life, check out Suzanne's free ezine, The Joy Letter. Sign up at http://www.howmuchjoy.com/joyletter.html and receive our valuable report, 35 Guaranteed Time Savers. And get a daily blast of joyful tips from the Blast o' Joy blog at http://selfhelpsalon.typepad.com/blast_o_joy/
About the Author
Suzanne Falter-Barns is the author of 2 self help books on living your creative dream. How Much Joy Can You Stand? (Ballantine) was a Main Selection of The One Spirit Book Club, and featured in Fitness, Woman's Day, Writer's Digest and on more than 100 radio and TV shows. Living Your Joy was named one of the top nine self help books in print by Self Magazine, and has been featured in many publications including the Christian Science
Or do you tend to operate with your feet in two camps -- one that says, 'I'm going out there and pursue my dream' and another that says, 'I'll also hedge my bets by doing something I don't love that much, just in case the dream thing doesn't work out.' This is what Persephone Zill, a coach I've worked with, would call 'indirectness' and I'm here to say that it doesn't work.
I've spent a lot of time in life hedging my bets under the mistaken illusion that this is mature, business-like behavior. The real irony is that seldom have these supposedly businesslike ideas ever produced income or other results that I thought for sure they would.
The urge to hedge your bets often runs contrary to everything your gut instincts scream at you to do. For instance, say you want to be a teacher. Your instinct says 'Quit the job! Go get licensed! Be a teacher kids never forget!' Meanwhile, you hedge your bets by dedicating most of your energy to work that doesn't feed your soul, and taking a course here and there that never really moves you any closer to the dream. You justify your lack of action by insisting you can't afford to quit or alter your job, or deciding you don't want to change your lifestyle and live on a teacher's salary.
And yet ... what do you want?
Do you want the excuses, or do you want the results? Do you want a life that's halfway, but never all the way, to the dream? For a lot of us, the excuses, and the half-baked life are all we think we deserve.
We don't focus on getting what we want because somewhere along the way, we decided we don't deserve that much happiness and fulfillment. I trace my own inclination to think that way back to a pivotal lunch with my mother back in my senior year in high school, when she asked me what I wanted to do with my life. As I was about to answer, 'Be a singer or a writer,' she pointed a finger at me and announced triumphantly, 'Communications! You're going to be GREAT in communications!' Whereupon I promptly burst into tears, and went on to spend 18 years in advertising, 'communicating' and hating myself all the while.
Seeds get planted that should not have been allowed to grow; ideas get listened to that should have been ignored. We cast about looking for anyone else but ourselves to give us direction -- and yet, WE are the only ones who can give us the permission to really, truly, honestly create what we want in life.
We can do what we want, but only if we are brave enough to seize the initiative -- even if it means not listening to Mom and going it alone. The urge not to provide ourselves with what we need in life is a sort of creative anorexia, deprivation that is all about a distorted picture of who we are and what we deserve. The real irony is that seldom do the contingency plans and hedged bets work out. During my entire career in advertising I never made half the salary that my other, more eager co-workers made. The simple fact was that I didn't want to be there, nor should I have been. Consequently, I couldn't produce the results that were expected of me.
(As a footnote to this, however, I will say that Spirit always has a plan -- for now I use what I learned all those years in advertising in my work helping coaches, speakers and consultants brand themselves and build platform. And now that I'm promoting something I actually care about ... I love it.)
Perhaps the road to getting what you want won't be fast, easy or lined with gold, but it will be one hundred percent honest. And that provides riches you can't even begin to count. So get out there, make a transitional plan you can stick to, and begin to do what you want.
I'm here to say that you do, indeed, deserve it.
2006 Suzanne Falter-Barns LLC.
For information on how to find the time, energy, money to live your purpose in life, check out Suzanne's free ezine, The Joy Letter. Sign up at http://www.howmuchjoy.com/joyletter.html and receive our valuable report, 35 Guaranteed Time Savers. And get a daily blast of joyful tips from the Blast o' Joy blog at http://selfhelpsalon.typepad.com/blast_o_joy/
About the Author
Suzanne Falter-Barns is the author of 2 self help books on living your creative dream. How Much Joy Can You Stand? (Ballantine) was a Main Selection of The One Spirit Book Club, and featured in Fitness, Woman's Day, Writer's Digest and on more than 100 radio and TV shows. Living Your Joy was named one of the top nine self help books in print by Self Magazine, and has been featured in many publications including the Christian Science
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