Being Successfully Happy
Wednesday is Business Series
Post 11
If you could, please, answer this question (for yourself and to yourself), with complete honesty - before we start today: Am I dedicated to me?
There are multiple millions of different, right ways to reach pure lasting happiness for life, which leads to success in every aspect of your life – but they all depend only on one right answer to the above question.
Of course there are just as many other ways of being – clearly not everyone wants to be happy for life. In that case, keep doing what you are doing. By the way, if you don’t feel pure love in your heart for the soul that carries you through life – you cannot truly love nor help another being (bearing in mind that by far most of us find the most profound meaning in uplifting and connecting and feeling true oneness with other souls). Thank you for stopping by, and I wish you nothing but well in life.
So, it’s Just Us Again, My Friend
Now that we have our attention to what really matters to each one of us (those of us aware, and those still creating by default – just the same), I would be remiss if I don’t remind all of us that success in business, in any work we do to serve others, depends solely on how we relate to ourselves. Looking within for our answers, listening to our inner guidance, deeper understanding, clearer thinking, and absolute respect for the immeasurable love that lives inside us – is the only way to be authentic, to be real and to truly care for others. Because if we don’t have love, kindness, compassion, forgiveness, understanding, patience for ourselves – we sure as hell are not going to have that for anyone else. Don’t be fooled if someone claims otherwise, but look for confirmation of this inside you. What is your inner voice telling you? Can someone who doesn’t know what love and connection really is – love and connect with someone else on a profound level? Absolutely not!
Here is the Best Part
Once this foundation work is done with self – you are on the road called success in life. (Life is the synonym for family, work, passion, dreams, relationships. Life is the synonym for everything – for the way you breathe, for how bravely you step up whenever life gets tough, how willing you are to show up for yourself and others, for the non-judgmental attitude towards self and others, for your ability to forgive yourself and another, for the love that unites us all, for one and only home to which we belong, and for this journey we are taking back home.)
You are your own teacher in this, my friend. I, or anyone else can only guide you with love and respect, but you are the measure for you. Everything inside you has the same abilities, same potential to be as great and full of light and love as me. The only difference may be that I trust the Love that created the world is inseparable from my being. I am not just a part of that love. You are not just a part of that love. Together we are all of that one love, but also each one of us – we are all of that love. The power inside you is that big. You do have to surrender your will to its guidance, my friend. That’s the only way to being successfully happy. Disconnecting means suffering unnecessarily. (If nothing else resonated with you, let that last sentence stay in your memory. It will ring true one day….)
* * * * The Exclusive Update – 342 Days to Dream * * * *
1.
As part of this bigger journey through 365 Days to Dream, I am using the opportunity to go deeper within my soul and the more peace and guidance I find in there, the more I open up and listen to its wisdom. I am learning to letting it guide me, slowly surrendering fully to its capacity to help me create and co-create every dream I have. I no longer do things in auto-pilot mode. Enough of my life was spent in the waiting for my life to resume. Little did I know that I willingly accepted to hold my finger on the Pause button on the pulse of my life. Lovingly, I have released that grip in the last two years and watched the false and momentary pass, whilst I rebuilt, recovered and restored my connection with the source inside me. It was I who held me back by waiting for the right moment (more perfect than right now will never arrive), not the circumstances I found myself in. I invited, created and allowed it – replacing with it all natural, pure and irreplaceable inside me. To the point of no return. People perhaps smarter, and certainly wiser than me – can figure it out even before it gets to that point. But I, stubborn as I am, I went all the way in putting myself last and everyone else above me. Oh, I believed with my whole heart that we are all equal, but the only person I didn’t treat equally was me. But then when I could no longer go back to the way it was, I opened my eyes to see that the point is never ever going to be to get comfortable. In fact, the more you are comfortable in the uncertainty – the better you do in life. And I allowed the love to fill my own cup too.
All this overture to say I listened to my intuition this morning when it told me that I enjoy doing certain activities (all that I do at the moment) so much that the self-imposed structure of limiting myself to 1-3 hour slots in which to do them – sometimes stops the flow. Sure enough, I go to the next activity I love just as much and keep them all going forward (remember, that was the intention I set). But, I want longer time 4-5 hours, or even 6 when it comes to working on my aquarelle painting or working on the 365 Days to Dream project. Home renovation is a creative, exciting process in which I like to immerse myself. I will move with that going forward – see what inspiration that day holds and pick that. So, I might take a whole day, or half a day working just on the challenge. Especially now with longer days, I really feel I want to enjoy the process and see the progress I am making.
Today, it was an impromptu garden work. Back in February, before this challenge started, I did prune and tidy everything. For those who don’t know, my whole garden is paved and I have plants (even trees) in the big blue glazed terracotta pots. Today called for some more caring in this area of my home, which I also love. Every outdoor space is so precious, and I am fortunate to have a large communal garden with grass and big trees just beyond, all the way to the neighbours’ opposite us gardens. It was precisely the view and outlook of natural world, bird song and huge, lush green trees that ticked the biggest box on my list when I was choosing where to live just over nine years ago.
2.
Beautiful peaceful feeling today. I think gardening and fresh air may have contributed further to my already calm start of the day: prayers, meditation, brisk cardio workout and a long but gentle yoga (first day of the new 30 days cycle). I am grateful for every moment of every day, for you reading this, for me writing this, for us being safe, for this challenge and the focus and passion and purpose behind it. Love it all!
3.
If you read the above two points, my friend – you will know that the #3 always presents a bit of a conundrum. Who knows what I will feel like doing tomorrow, and actually end up doing – despite having a plan of action to execute. Within that plan I intend to keep it varied and unpredictable, as long as there is activity and recordable steps forward (that can be in mindset, research or in the space around me). Stay tuned to see how it evolves and unfolds in the most beautiful way.
Remember – You Are Safe Here
This is the sacred place between our souls. Thank you for sharing your visions, dreams and ideas. Your courage to be vulnerably seen will always be respected, and you will be treated with nothing but kindness and compassion. ♡
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