What Happens When You Discover Success?
We’ve all learned to equate success with phrases like “hard work, work ethic,” and “twelve-hour days.” Certainly, one will not achieve much noteworthy success without regular and sometimes massive action. We all know this. However, the thought hardly inspires.
However, notice how different these questions feel:
What if you discover success just like you might discover a new skill that you pick up quickly?
What becomes possible when you discover success just like you discover that you have knack for something and say “I’m pretty good at this?”
Do you realize how much easier success becomes as you imagine that it is a new and exciting discovery and that success is just waiting for you to recognize it?”
That’s quite a difference!
Here’s the empowering thought behind this idea. Suppose that an intense desire for some worthy achievement is proof positive of talent. Suppose that a persistent, insistent desire confirms that the corresponding talent resides in you as a part of you.
What happens when you access this part and awaken your slumbering talent? Now that you have discovered this newly-realized and talented part, you can redefine success as a matter of discovery and subsequent talent development.
Notice the difference this makes. And I’ve observed that it makes a huge difference.
Do you realize how much more exciting the whole idea of success becomes when we imagine it as a discovery of talent that’s already a part of us?
Here’s an exercise I developed that helps you embrace this idea and transform it into confidence.
Call to mind a part of you that shows talent for some worthy activity. This might be cooking, gardening, music, telling jokes, or something else that you enjoy and do well.
Suppose you consider this activity as a part of you that makes a unique contribution to your total personality. Suppose you have a talent marked “success.” Suppose you discover it and develop it like any other talent.
Then “success” is not some distant dream that requires lots of strenuous action. Rather, it is an already-existing talent that you can develop like any other.
This new point of view helps put to rest limiting ideas like reliance on luck, fear of failure, and fear of criticism. And this is why discovering success as a talent that is already a part of you builds confidence and generates a sense of empowerment.
As you think of success as a talent that already exists as a part of you, you realize that what goes outside of you is not nearly as important as what goes on inside of you. With this new perspective boy massage recliner established in mind, you can work hard, apply your work ethic, and put in twelve-hour days as needed.