Hello friends,
Here is another nugget from Dr. Robert Anthony. Hope it speaks to you!
EXPRESSING YOUR TALENTS
- by Dr. Robert Anthony
http://ManifestingSecrets.com
Are you a successful person or do you think of yourself as a failure?
I suppose that every one of us must decide for ourselves whether we are a success or a failure, regardless of what the outside world thinks of us.
Indeed, if you look back through history you will find that many of those men who were the biggest successes in terms of outer acclamation, were complete failures in terms of their own inner aspirations. For example: Alexander the Great conquered the then known world, but he was never able to conquer his own violent temper – he wanted to do so very much that he considered himself a failure.
Napoleon won the undying devotion of millions of his subjects, but the one person he really wanted to love him, refused. That was Josephine, his wife. Although Napoleon was passionately in love with Josephine, she never returned his affection.
Then think of Goethe, one of the greatest poets and writers in the world, and yet he really wanted to be an artist: he wasted many years in his early life studying art when he really had comparatively little talent in that department and considered himself a failure as a result. Imagine Goethe thinking of himself as a failure?
Whistler, the great artist, strangely enough wanted to be a poet, but fortunately he realized his lack of ability and turned to art instead. But in terms of his poetry he was, in his own eyes, a failure.
Think finally of Hans Christian Andersen. Those fairy tales won him a fantastic place in the world of children’s literature, and yet, he could only appeal to children through his writing. In face to face contact, children found him ugly and repulsive and he thought of himself as a failure in his contacts with children.
Now, take another look at yourself, and ask yourself: am I a failure or am I a success? If you are honest with yourself, I think that you will discover you are successful in those areas where you express those God-given talents that are yours and yours alone and that you are a failure, or you consider yourself to be a failure, in areas where you are trying to inflict your will upon a given situation.
There is so much fulfillment to be found in this world that we don’t have to go struggling and striving for it. You have been blessed with more talent than you can ever use up. Why then give your life to striving to fulfill yourself in other areas?
Why consider yourself a failure because you have been trying to inflict your will on a given set of circumstances, when you are an unbounded success when you use your own God-given talents. You can be a great success in this life, and all you have to do is to recognize those talents, which are yours and yours alone and follow them wherever they may lead you.
Don’t let your self-inflicted failures hold you back. Simply say: Well, that is not for me, I will release it and move on. Release it and move on and you will find the success that is justly yours.
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This is from the ebook - 50 Ideas That Can Change Your Life - by Dr. Robert Anthony. Get his fr..ee 6 day e-course, "The Million Dollar Secret That Can Change Your Life" at: http://ManifestingSecrets.com
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Wow, I like that. "Release it and move on."
Doesn't that feel great!
Many blessings for your prosperity and well being.