Your Only Option is Success
Your Only Option Is Success By: Herndon L. Davis
http://herndondavis.com
(The following is the part 1 of a 2 part series focusing on
achieving success in one's life.)
Did you realize that your life was actually pre-destined for
success and that you were hard-wired and pre-planned for
greatness? Can you imagine your life surfing on a continual
high, wave, and generation of success? If not, then get used to
the idea, because success is your only option in life.
But how you argue? Everyone can't be rich, there can only be one
at the top, not everyone is educated, and there're so many
living in poverty, how possibly can everyone have success as
their only option?
Well I'm so glad you asked. Let's first re-define success.
Success isn't a dollar amount, an overpriced car, or a vast
countryside estate. These are only the window-dressings of
perceived success.
Success is achieving what the God of your Understanding has
pre-destined you to do and to become. And the icing on the cake
is that when you are obedient in doing and becoming what the
Universe desires, then the window-dressings of success will
always follow. It's just that simple!
But that's too easy you say. If that's the case then the entire
world be successful. YES, that's it!! The entire world is meant
to be successful! You see success comes in many different forms,
shapes and colors. The Universe stands ready to hoist upon you
volumes of success, if only you would allow your life, your
words, your actions, and your love to be transformed and used
for the spiritual purpose and plan it was meant for.
But as you think about it some more you desperately try to
convince yourself this really isn't the path. Not everyone can
thrive you say. Not everyone can be rich, not everyone can be
middleclass, the economic system just doesn't work that way. All
6.4 billion people in the world simply cannot exist when
everyone succeeds and no one ever fails.
Well sir/madam, I am here to happily inform you that you are
completely and utterly dead-wrong!! With all of your might you
cling to the mistaken belief that there are scarce, limited
resources in the world and even scarcer, limited time to grab
your share of it. This is why the blessings of the universe have
not yet been opened to you.
Success is your only option but you're in a holding pattern
waiting to take off. You see you're still stuck on the ground;
you haven't yet begun to fly. The reason you're stuck on the
ground is because of your limited thinking, limited knowledge
and limited understanding of a God that owns and operates
everything in the universe and beyond.
You're also stuck thinking that your life is really about you.
Instead your life is meant to be utilized by God and through its
use, your success will come. I would dare estimate that a few
billion people in this world are in a holding pattern due to
their limited enlightenment. Okay, Okay you shout. I'll give it
a try but how do I know what I was meant to do? How do I find my
purpose in life??
Well here's the formula:
Prayer + Meditation + Self-Action = Purpose x 2,3,4 or more =
Success
1. Prayer is you talking to God. 2. Meditation is you listening
to God. (much harder to do)
3. Self-Action is doing what you hear God telling you to do.
(even harder to do)
4. Purpose is the sum of your Prayer, Meditation, and Self-Action
5. Success is your purpose magnified or multiplied times 2, 3 4
or more. Whatever the amount of effort you put into living out
your purpose is returned to you in your success (i.e. window
dressings that we covet such as money, car, house etc).
Sounds really easy doesn't it? Well it is, until you find out
what your purpose is; that's when you start to back away. You
see some of you were meant to teach, others preach, others were
meant to sing, others were meant to listen, while other were
meant to build and create something from nothing.
Some of you were meant to become the targets of others (i.e.
activists) while others were meant to change their careers
altogether and become and do something that initially their
heart does not desire.
So instead of living out your purpose and receiving the success
you were meant to have, you remain on the ground waiting to take
off, but you never do. So in essence, you never take advantage
of the only option available to you which is success.
Success is waiting to be eagerly and generously bestowed upon
you, but instead you spend your life in a holding pattern then
you eventually die unhappy and unfulfilled blaming it all on God
or on your being gay/lesbian.
Well I'm happy to report that I've decided to live my life
embracing the only option that is available to me, which is
success. Do you want to join me? Will you join me? If so, then
I'll see you at the mountaintop!
Herndon L. Davis is an inspirational author, lecturer, and TV
Host. He can be reached directly at http://herndondavis.com
Copyrighted 2005