[SELF-APPRECIATION WILL HELP]

 

Question:

I have been carrying around your book "You Can Have It All" for umpteen years, reading it often, trying to figure out what it's all about. and I am confused.

You say I have to take responsibility for what happens to me. I believe that "there is God's plan, and there is my plan. And my plan doesn't count."

  • Jan, 2001, I'm take over as President of Co. I have worked for 15years
  • Jan, 2001, my dad dies. he was 79.
  • Feb, 2001, many clients are congratulative about my success
  • March, 2001, Corporate offices catch fire. no catastrophic losses.
  • March, 2001, Doctor advises that my PSA is jumping.
  • April, 2001, I get sideways with the board of directors (all who are employees, the
  • company is an ESOP)
  • May, 2001, I seem to get most grievances reconciled
  • June, 2001, still doing old consultant job as well as President job. It would take me some time to turn over my business portfolio to new consultants.
  • July, 2001, went on Ireland vacation with spouse, daughter and son-in-law.
  • August, 2001, all seems quiet with department managers. They advise me that all is well.
  • August, 2001, Doctor advises me i have prostate cancer. I need to decide on which therapy. The Doc, my wife, and I agree that Prostatectomy is the correct way to go. August, 2001, the Board of Directors fires me as President. I am to return to consultant job. However, I have about given away all of my portfolio built over 15 years.
  • Sept, 2001, WTC and Pentagon. World Changes. Prospective clients are reluctant to undertake additional travel.
  • October, 2001, I am still giving away my portfolio to employees I had already committed while I was president.
  • November, 2001, I return to consultant status to rebuild my business portfolio.
  • November, 2001, I undergo the Prostatectomy. I am convalescing nicely. I hope to return to work on Nov. 26, 2001, which just happens to be my wife and my 30th wedding anniversary.

Life is going so fast for me, and I seem to be failing in abundance department. I am confounded. Can you help out here?

  • Certainly, some good things happened in 2001.
  • The Presidency was good and fun for me.
  • My dad dying was not great, but he was pretty sick, the timing could have been better. I hired some good people for the company. That was good.
  • Some of my customers sent congratulatory gifts. One recognized me at a party he threw.
  • In June I shot a 91 on the River Course at Kingsmill, that was good.
  • The Ireland trip was a good thing.
  • The cancer was bad, but the surgery was good, so far.

But I have to say my confidence is shaken or shaking. I need a win or a change or something. Any Ideas? Your follower, ....

 

Answer:

You have carefully listed many of the ways you see power outside of yourself. You see the world as a series of events that happen to you, and you are just a powerless entity subject to these forces.

The truth is that you are a God Presence with all the power of the Universe making believe that you are powerless. You purposely hid that power so that you could have the experiences that you came into the human to have, including the ones you listed in your question.

Creating these experiences is a monumental undertaking on your part, for which you are entitled to feel great appreciation for yourself. Feeling this self-appreciation will help you see the experiences you listed as a wonderful accomplishment instead of a series of setbacks intermixed with very few positive occurrences.

When you are ready to awaken to who you really are, the support for that part of the journey will be given to you.

I suggest that you scroll back through the answers to other people's questions during this past year. That will give you a sense of what the next part of the journey is about. You cannot give away your power. The sense that your power is outside of you in the events that seem to come uninvited into your life is just an illusion you create. Since you create the illusion, you can replace it with the clarity of appreciation for the overall experience with you as the intentional creator rather than as the poor victim.

Creating the illusion required all of your talent, cleverness and commitment. These are the same attributes you use to open to who you really are.

 
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