A Vital Resource? Your mistakes and hard times are incredible resources that support you with succeeding
May 10th, 2012 by rob white
You can listen to the WROAR Radio broadcast of ” The Vital Feature of Success: See Everything as a Resource” with co-hosts JK and Deeone below.
And now on with the Blog…
In every day affairs, I clearly see the need for placing everything in its right order. Everything is in its right order when I see everything in my life as a resource. Everything in my life is in right order when I see everything as a means to an end. Moreover, when the end I have in mind advances my dreams and aspirations, then everything is a blessing, isn’t it?
A resource is something that supports you with what you are up to; it is a means to an end result that you desire to accomplish; it is an expedient that quickens your action so you can realize your mental abstractions; it is a facility that enables you to achieve your aspirations. Everything is a resource!
How does this work? Imagine wanting to play the guitar. What are the many resources available in your life that contribute to your playing the guitar? Yes, you need a guitar; that’s certainly a resource. What else is a resource? Where do I begin? There is no end to the myriad resources in one’s life that contribute to one playing the guitar. Your fingers are a resource (how are you going to do it without fingers?). Your brain is a resource (how are you going to strum the strings of the guitar without a brain?). Your enthusiasm is a resource; a guitar teacher or instructional DVD is a resource. The food you eat is a resource (how are you going to enthusiastically practice the guitar if you are starving?). Your attitude is a resource, your passion is a resource, electricity is a resource if you want to play the electric guitar.
Are you beginning to get it? Everything is a resource. If you want to play the guitar in public, then even the folks who come to hear you play are a resource, a contribution, aren’t they?
Dare to ask yourself what you need as a resource in order to succeed with your aspirations and aims. Don’t be shy about it. What do I need to write a blog every week? My laptop, my fingers, my intelligence, my passion, central air conditioning (it keeps my office cool in the summer when I am writing blogs). You folks who read my blog are resources (you inspire me to keep writing more blogs … thank you). The air that I breathe is a resource (how am I to write if I am gasping for air?). Everything, everything, everything is a resource, everything is a support that helps me write my blogs; my command of the English language, my elementary school teachers that taught me how to spell words several decades ago. Everything is a resource; even time is a resource (how am I to write my blogs if I do not have the time to write them?).
When you begin to think this way, you see that even your mistakes and hard times are incredible resources that support you with succeeding. They teach you the value of hard work; they offer you lessons so you can refine your action; they teach you to lean on nothing outside your true self.
There was a time when I had a problem feeling worthy of receiving life’s many riches. This changed quickly when I stopped seeing my financial gains as rewards, and began seeing my financial gains as resources to help me further my dreams and aspirations. This is a big one. When you see money as a resource that supports you with all that is important to you, you stop feeling unworthy when large amounts of money come to you.

When you see money as a resource that supports you with all that is important to you, you stop feeling unworthy when large amounts of money come to you.
Seeing money as a resource banishes feelings of unworthiness. Feelings of unworthiness are the reason that a lot of lottery winners lose the money in a few years. What if these lottery winners saw the money as a resource, rather than a reward that they did not deserve? What if they considered the money as a means to a greater end, and then set noble goals? This is a very important point that I am making about money being a resource rather than a reward. Are you receiving it?
Look at everything you own as a resource that supports you with your noble aims and aspirations – everything! This point of view is very empowering. Acknowledge every experience you’ve had (the bitter ones and the sweet ones), as fabulous resources that support you with your breakthroughs into grander versions of yourself.
When you see everything, and everyone, and when you look at every experience you experience as a resource that supports you:
(1) You participate fully in life.
(2) You begin doing things that really make a positive difference with your family, your community, at work, and in the world
The next time you face a disturbing and unexpected crisis; ask yourself, “How can I consider this a resource?” This question will help you value inner integrity over outer reactivity … and this, right here, makes the matter a valuable resource, doesn’t it?
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ILLUMINATING TIP:
When you see everything in your life as a resource that supports you with what is
important to you, you place the inner man (the true you), in control of
your outer circumstances. How empowering is this?
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Set ‘resource-awareness’ before all other thoughts; place this kind of thinking before speaking, and you will never catch yourself complaining or whining again.
Blessings to you. You are a resource for me. How is this blog a resource for you? Please share your thoughts so others may learn from you … now you become a resource for others. How great is that?
Thank you.
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