There's a fake hierarchy or continuum ranging from #WINNERS down to #LOSERS that we buy into online and by extension in life.
#Hustle and WIN. #PERSIST and WIN. Get up at dawn and WIN. Closers WIN. Most views Win. Popular WINS..............................And yet it isn't so.
In this game there are winners and losers. This is a competition based on ego preservation.
Competition and collaboration are poor bedfellows and collaboration is a far better game.
Who are the losers when we close the deal, purchase the toy, get to #1? Everyone else - that's the message we're conveying.
The healthiest and happiest of us are identified by how we respond to the success of others not by the results showing up in our own lives.
One of the first books to make an impression on me was "I'm OK, You're OK" (#Thomas_A._Harris 1969) That's the eponymous message regardless of the results we're currently producing.
Chase alternate results, encourage others to identify new horizons but be wary the fallout of buying into populist definitions of success.
This is a confronting and provocative question. It presumes there’s a gap in your life and that you are in some way failing, falling short of your own expectations. If The Law of Attraction does indeed work, how then do we explain how bad things happen to good people? How can we explain how the worst of criminals can win the Lottery? Indeed we can question whether this much-quoted Law is in fact a myth. The point of this article is not to ponder the riddle of this apparent phenomenon or get bogged down in the mire of attempting to define the intangible. Rather I would like to posit the following commentary. Let’s twist the above question. Imagine that despite your initial reaction to the topic, that you are indeed living the dream, but have failed to realize this fact. Perhaps your appreciation lens is clouded. Perhaps you are with your ideal life partner but are blinded to this fact by virtue of your incessant fantasizing of some parallel universe where some
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