Shape Your Success

If you’re on the right path, you’ll get to where you want to go. Consistent commitment keeps you on the path.

The hardest thing for people to unlearn is the short attention span that’s been shaped by television, entertainment, letting the kids rule the roost, and by letting pernicious, untrue self-victimizing thoughts snuggle up into our belief systems.  And this inability to be flowingly calm and ‘real’ is really just the inability to return the mind to the most important thing it can be thinking about in the present moment. It leads to a lot of much unfinished business. The unfinished business then leads to drama. The drama leads to self-dramatization including wild stories about how other people make us unhappy or destroy our dreams. This self-dramatization replaces the committed life.

As Steven Pressfield writes in, “The War of Art,” “Sometimes entire families participate unconsciously in a culture of self-dramatization.  The kids fuel the tanks, the grown-ups arm the phasers, the whole starship lurches from one spine-tingling episode to another.  And the crew knows how to keep it going.  If the level of drama drops below a certain threshold, someone jumps in to amp it up.  Dad gets drunk, Mom gets sick, Jenny shows up for church with a tattoo.  It’s more fun than a movie.  And it works: nobody gets a darn thing done.”

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