Create Success Newsletter!
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Create Success Newsletter
Volume 3, Issue 11 - December 2006
Powerful Tips to Grow Your Business and Your Life
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In this issue ---
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In this issue ---
1. Lead Article "The Debutante and the Preacher"
2. Recommended Resources
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Lead Article
"The Debutante and the Preacher"
“Above all, to thine own self be true, for thou cans't not then be false to any man.”
-- William Shakespeare
This article is going to be a little different than usual
and even somewhat controversial, so don't say that you
weren't warned if you read on. It's still about success, and
it's about a very crucial component of your success - your
authenticity - so I consider it very important.
Why should authenticity be important to success? Look
at it this way - we all bring unique gifts and talents into
this life to serve the world. When we fully express these
gifts, the Universe rewards us with happiness, fulfillment
and prosperity. That's called "success" in my book. Just
making a lot of money without the rest is not success, as
the large number of dysfunctional CEOs in the news
demonstrates. If you follow someone else's dream for
your life rather than your own inner guidance, you can't
effectively express your gifts. If you have to live by
pretending to be someone you aren't, you have an
even worse problem.
I'm going to make my point with a good example and a
bad example and show how authenticity, or the lack of
it, may affect your life. We'll start with the good example,
the debutante.
For those of you who aren't familiar with the term, debutante
is often used these days to refer to young women from very
wealthy and socially connected families who go off to
exclusive private schools and marry rich young men from
similar backgrounds.
That's what they're supposed to do, anyway. Elizabeth Wight
was different. From a prominent Saint Louis, Missouri, family,
she was sent to study at the American School of Ballet in
New York in 1948. She decided that her heart was in a
different kind of performing and horrified her family by
running off and joining the Ringling Brothers circus!
For three years she traveled with the circus, riding horses
and elephants and sticking her head in the tiger's mouth.
Along the way she met a cowboy in Wyoming that she
couldn't get out of her mind, and she eventually ran away
from the circus and married him. After several years of
rodeoing and cowboying the couple, now with four children,
moved back to Missouri and took over running her family's
farms.
The cowboy passed away last year. They were married more
than 50 years. Elizabeth "Bunny" Herring celebrated her
80th birthday last month. As you might guess, she
celebrated in her own unique way - doing an arial act on the
rings at the St Louis City Museum's circus arena for her private
birthday party. She's 80 years old, a size 8 and she's still got
game!
She started life with a belief system from her family. They had
very real expectations of what was acceptable and what her
life should be like. Had she followed their dream for her, she
would likely have been miserable. Instead she was able to
reject the belief system, be her authentic self, enjoy life to
the fullest and give her gift to the world We are all richer for
her example.
Let's contrast her experience with the very sad case of the
Rev Ted Haggard, former leader of the National Association
of Evangelicals. He also had a belief system given to him by
others, that homosexuality was "bad, evil, wicked, mean and
nasty." What do you do if your beliefs require you to deny
your authenticity? You repress part of yourself and you create
a "shadow self" that you try to hide, even from yourself. You
end up very unhappy, full of self loathing and terribly afraid
that others will find out what you know.
And people will find out, because the flip side of repression
is acting out. If we don't express our authentic self in a
healthy and appropriate manner, it will express
inappropriately. When it does, the consequences can be
tragic, as Rev Haggard has found out.
The fact is that Rev Haggard has a great spiritual drive and
a wonderful gift of ministry to give to God and the world.
The tragedy is that he still does not realize that it's his
belief system that's the problem. He still thinks that there's
something fundamentally wrong with him. So he'll
continue to try to live a lie unless he gets free from that
belief.
I know he can do it if he chooses. My wife (who is a minister)
and I know many powerful spiritual people who have made
that journey and are now empowered by their freedom to be
authentic. We can hold that vision for Haggard, too.
The lesson is that not being authentic will cripple your ability
to be fully successful! That's why doing what you love is
crucial. That's why challenging your beliefs is a constant
process.
Where in your life are you not able to be authentic? Where
are you following someone else's beliefs, or dreams? What
part of you are you hiding? Today would be a good day to
start toward full authenticity.
Let me close with my favorite tidbit about the circus debutante.
A couple of years ago she got a tattoo around her ankle and
she chose the Latin motto from her boarding school - "Esse
Quam Videre". It will serve as a great motto for all of us.
It means:
"To be: rather than to seem"
That's authenticity!
To following your bliss,
Wes
Comments or questions? Drop me a line using the
Contact form
on my web site.
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Recommended Resources
For a great explanation of our "shadow selves" and
how to integrate them and experience wholeness, I
recommend Debbie Ford's classic work, "The Dark
Side of the Light Chasers". It's available at most book
stores or online at Amazon.
For news articles on Bunny Herring's birthday, see
Circus News
For a healthy view of the Bible and sexuality from two
evangelical ministers, see the Rev Mel White's
SoulForce and the Rev Jack Rogers site
at drjackrogers.com/
Get The Secret here
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**Disclaimer - Results not typical.
Your results are the product of your own efforts and
we do not promise any particular outcome for you if
you follow our advice or take one of our seminars.
I hope you already knew this.
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© 2006 Wes Hopper. All rights reserved.
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anyone you wish.
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