Calendar Books by Allen James - Daily Reading - "The Journey: A Calendar Book"

                                  
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Today's reading, August 21st, from The Journey: A Calendar Book reads,

"Embrace success" (James, 2012).

To embrace something means to hold on to tightly/closely or to wrap ourselves around it.  Despite what we may have been conditioned to believe, it is NOT self-serving or conceited to be proud of our successes.  Successes should be celebrated and touted, not necessarily outwardly, but certainly within; giving ourselves a good pat on the back when personal success comes our way.

For some people, success is illustrated by the monetary accumulation. For others it is about accomplishments, awards and recognitions. At the same time there are many people who define success based on their relationships, family, friends and status in the community. Like everything in life, we are the one who ultimately decides exactly what success means to us.

There was a time in my life when something “good” happened for someone else, I would automatically begin to think, “why not me?” I would then continue to come up with all kinds of reasons why perhaps it was (in my opinion) said person receiving the good fortune, was not deserving of it. I would go on and on about how it was not fair; with what I often now refer to as the “poor me” syndrome. The more I focused on what I perceived as the sad state of affairs of my life, emotions such as jealousy, envy, and even resentment began to surface. My attitude towards others, and these emotions combined with the energy that I had created for myself in this vibrational state, took me farther and farther away from the measurements of success  I held; thus creating “No Success”, I was literally saying “No, to success!”

One of the things we may never have considered (and I say this because it was something I never considered) is when we celebrate another person’s successes, we are actually creating success for ourselves. Isn’t this an interesting concept!

When we get excited, rejoice, celebrate and feel genuinely happy for someone else’s success and good fortune, we are moving this energy and information forward into the Universe “as if” it is our own. Our reactive attitude towards others in these moments is powerful. When we acknowledge another person’s success from a place of love, harmony and joy, we create success and good fortune for ourselves with effortless ease. The universe responds to our attitude, our thoughts and our feelings. Through our own conscious intent for good and blessings for others, we are literally commanding our world to fulfill our dreams and desires and bring about our own success. Our attention and focus to the present successes of others creates success for ourselves. We are energetically saying “Yes!” to success!

Keeping this in mind, we must pay attention to our attitude by:

o responding in thought toward our neighbors when we see a new vehicle in their driveway;
o rethink our thoughts when we hear our best friend is going on a holiday;
o watch our feelings and attitude when our colleague is promoted;
o watch our responses to those who always win raffles, lotteries, or door prize;
o adjust our attitude when someone around us accomplishes a goal have also set for ourselves.

We are creating in every one of these moments; what contribution are we making to our life? Are we adding expansiveness to the energy of our success aligned with universal flow, or are we placing energy in resistance?

I have come to realize in order to start creating success, I first need to find acceptance with where I am in my life and part of doing this, is taking a look back at all the times I have already been successful. This process has had me take a good look at how I was defining and measuring my own success and in turn, it has become increasingly easy to recognize and celebrate the success of another.

“In pursuit of your goals and the summit of your success, it is important to pause; take a look at how far you have climbed. Stop for this moment. Acknowledge where you have been, the steps you have taken and place into this brief intermission, gratitude for it all! As you travel forward to your dreams, rejoice in the accomplishments and successes of others who walk beside you. For their feat combines and magnifies with your own, thus creating a beautiful energetic marriage and a Divinely inspired recipe for success of the all!” ~ Creator

My life is filled with amazing experiences which contributes to my measurement and definition of success. I have accomplished, overcome and risen above, and with welcomed surprise, succeeded in one form or another, every single time in all I set out to do. Chances are, those reading this blog probably have too!

So today and in every day to come, let’s celebrate success… together!  Keep looking up.  : ) AJ