Success Begins Within.
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Success begins within through the choices we make. The only person present all the time in your career is yourself. The decisions we make are a critical factor for success. They can contribute to ‘Circles of Violence’ that feed our fears and anxieties or they can foster ‘Circles of Love’ which will support us in creating a fulfilling career. As you replace habits that drag you down and with those that lift you up, you step closer to being the person in your dream jobs. Your success begins within you.

Circles of Violence

People are caught in ‘Circles of Violence’ to themselves and to others. By engaging in any fight everybody looses out Freedom and Happiness. It is difficult to fly when you are simultaneously being pulled back down.

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What are the ‘Circles of Violence’ in your life? Could it be procrastination, being resisting what is, or staying in a job you hate? Stopping the circles of anything that drains your vitality is like being in a hot air balloon and casting off the ropes holing you to the ground. It could mean changing your environment, choosing a different attitude or adopting new habits.

These things are out of our comfort zone. Many people spend years accepting uninspiring working conditions. They have a dull ache that they just put up with. This is like Chinese water torture, where you are restrained and small drops of cold water are repeatedly dropped onto your forehead and irregular intervals. Individually the drops are inconsequential. However, the cumulative effect is mental distress that far outweighs the pain of each individual drop.

What is your drop of water? Is it the sight of the same office everyday, the politics in your office? Is it feeling undervalued? Is it the lack of challenge? Is it the boredom? Is it the lack of creativity? The cumulative effect of these drops day after day can lead you straight to a mid-life crisis!

If you listen to the sources of your inner discontent now, you have the opportunity to be courageous and unreasonable about ending the circles of violence that are holding you back from your dream jobs. This success begins within, all it takes are new committed choices.

Circles of Love

In not choosing fear and violence, what is left is to choose love. When you phase the violence out of your thoughts, words and deeds, you can replace it with love, happiness and fulfilment.

If you are inspired, passionate and self-expressed in your work these lead to more of the same. Of course there will always be challenges, but they are the ones that push you to grow rather than merely endure.

Success begins within as you create ‘Circles of Love’ through making conscious choices about who you choose to be in any situation. For instance you can be integrous or not. You can be grateful or not.

These ways of being start inside you. Then as you behave in accordance with who you are being, they will start to overflow and create uplifting circles with those around you. This is where you will start finding support for success in the people, environment and opportunities around you. ‘Circles of Love’ are the hot air that will lift your hot air balloon off the ground to soar to success.

Where does a Circle start?

There is no start. You can look back round a circle of events to determine causes or assign blame. However, it will keep coming back to you. Circles just go round and round. You may want other parts of the circle to change, but the only point at which you have the power of choice is yourself.

It is not the world that can change your experience by your responses. You will just recreate your old circles of behaviour in spite of any external changes. Transformation occurs when you step out of circles of violence forever. You start to soar to success when you respond ‘No’ to those things that do not support you.

A circle of violence I’m personally aware of at the time of writing is a habit of safe-guarding my independence. This limits my ability to act in partnership. I perceive an element of threat to my independence through acting in partnership. This is what I see irrespective of whether there is a threat in real life. With this awareness I can now also see that partnerships could propel me to new levels of success, if our mutual talents create an explosive mixture then forget the hot air balloon, what about a spaceship!

I have a choice to make about whether to be Love of Fear as these opportunities arise in the future. The critical factor for accessing this new level of success begins within me. At the moment this is a new conscious choice I am able to make. Eventually it will become an unconscious habit.

Break The Cycle

The chances are you have many circles of violence. As you start to identify them, just work on one at a time. It is difficult to continually make new choices instead of your habitual responses. There is no need to tackle the whole world all at once!

• Where is an area of pain for you?
• What are you afraid of?
• In which ways can this situation be offering you the exact opposite of what you fear?
• Which of these new opportunities will you create in your life?

Everybody in the world is engaged in ‘Circles of Love’ and ‘Circles of Violence’, firstly in within themselves, but also with the people around them. These circles can either support or destroy the fulfilment you experience in your career. You have the choice to take responsibility for the circles you are engaged in. You can end the violence to your self, and create circles of love to propel you forward into your dream jobs. This success begins within because it is all a matter of choice. What do you choose?

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