[In this article, the author explains how our outer efforts
and work must be matched with a deep desire and aspiration to
want and partake of that work for it to lead to great success.]
If on the outside you do
a work, but on the inside you
do not enjoy the work, or aspire for something else, there is
little chance that what you are current doing will lead to any
great success. The results is that your
efforts will fall short of your real potential in life. However,
if your outer efforts have the
endorsement of your emotions and your psychological will within,
then your outer efforts are more likely to end in great
success and joy.
If
we examine our lives we might find out that situations and circumstances
bear out this fact. For example, in the book
Pride and Prejudice we can readily see how each person's true desires
come about, as their
inner aspirations match their outer efforts.
"Lydia wanted a dashing husband
and she got one. Jane and Bingley wanted like-minded mild mates and they
found them. Charlotte wanted security for herself and higher
accomplishment for Eliza and she accomplished both."
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On the other hand we can
also see how life's situations might be out of balance with what we really
want. For example, consider this store manager who came to realize that the
position he was put in was not square with what he really wanted.
A co-partner of a chain of retail stores
wanted to see his company succeed. Along the way he expressed his frustration at
being unable to lead his people. He complained that his partner was overbearing,
that others weren't responding to his wishes, and his business was not really blossoming
the way he would like it to.
On further self-examination, the co-partner discovered something interesting about
himself. He realized that he never really felt comfortable in the position of
manager, co-partner and leader of his company. Though he wanted to see his company
succeed and even made the effort to change some of his attitudes about his business, he
was unaware of a very fundamental aspect of himself--he never felt comfortable with being
a leader in the first place.
Here's a similar example:
A management consultant was doing an
analysis of a large retail floor and carpeting store in Northern California. He met with
staff to determine the problems the company was having. The consultant noted problems of
organization and direction. He was, however, a little reluctant to discuss the attitudes
and the involvement of the owner himself for this would be a little too direct. In
particular, the consultant avoided stating that there really was no direction and leadership coming
from the top, causing low morale of the staff, lack of dynamism in the organization, and
loss of big income opportunities.
The consultant then issued a report to
the owner of the firm. The firm took up a number of the suggestions. A few months later
the owner told the consultant somewhat bitterly
that he should have told him in the report that that he (the
owner) was reluctant to take up the reigns of the company. He had to find that out from
the staff as a results of the discussions between staff and the consultant. The owner then
admitted that all along he never really didn't want to lead the company and had recently hired a
new manager to run and give direction to the firm.
In each case what one truly wanted was
out of balance with
the way they lived their lives. In such
situations, we really have two choices. Either we move into a new line of
work that matches our inner aspirations, or we come to embrace the
situations that we are placed in and endorses it fully with our emotions.
In either case, the end result will be that the outer will match our inner
will and aspiration. When this occurs life responds abundantly to one's
efforts in life because the outer and the inner have become one.
When
there is a deep emotion, an intense
aspiration to accomplish a thing, it gains force
and will of purpose. Whereas a mere thought to accomplish
something will ultimately leave things as they
are, a deep aspiration and emotion will release
the hidden energies of life which will attract great positive results
outside ourselves. Such a bringing in balance of the inner will and the
outer work can even bring about sudden, even instantaneous positive
responses from life around us. Consider this example:
The film
maker Ken Burns was working on a film on baseball. In the middle of it
he conceived of a film on the history of jazz. He thought it a great
idea, and felt it would be an extension of his work on the baseball
film. After a number of years no action was taken on the jazz film even
though he conceived of it earlier on and could have begin
at least some initial
preparation of the film as he was working on the baseball film.
Only years later did he feel an emotional stirring to work on the
jazz project. From that point on it came about
very quickly, and with great
intensity and organization.
If what you do on the
outside is fully endorsed by your deepest aspirations inside, you will
succeed infinitely in life.
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