Take Your Success Light

How great is it to come to a long sought-after realization! What a feeling of immense joy to break through a barrier within your business and creative pursuits. It’s electrifying to find success in whatever we are pursing. And what’s the first thing we want to do when success is achieved? Run out and tell the world! We call our friends, partners, parents and drop a bag of “I did its” on them. We’re on top of the world, or so it seems. We met success and now it’s become a burning ball of exhilaration within us that we have to get it out, fast and to as many ears willing to listen.

But isn’t that so heavy? To constantly feel the “must” and need to unload your success on other people. Is this really a good thing to do? Sure, we’re excited and want to share our achievements with others, but what about taking a moment, silently and internally, and allowing a pause of grace and consideration to take shape — just you and your success. To reflect on your advancements and meditate on the journey that has led up to it. To contemplate the emotions of joy and renewal that surely come from any strides we make.

Success is like rumor: it sounds juicy and exciting, but the more people you share it with, the more those same people secretly despise you.

Try taking it light the next time you grasp a new concept or close a big deal or finish a book that you’ve been writing. Don’t feel the need to immediately pounce on your friends and family with the weight of your success. Perhaps they are dealing with misfortune in their lives and hearing about your success only further dampens their spirits. Perhaps your joy and excitement is really just another exercise for your ego to build itself up into the monster it’s becoming. Perhaps people simply aren’t ready to hear about you you you and only you. Maybe they need someone to just listen to them for once — someone to ask about their successes and hardships and failures.

Did you ever consider these possibilities in the midst of your excitement? Do you ever ask yourself if whether or not I should keep my success sacred and hold it within, where I can truly appreciate it instead of using it as a dark shadow to obscure the light of others? You probably haven’t because when we’re excited, it’s as if we’re on a drug. In fact, we are! And when on any drug, caution and consideration is always wise before action.

I’m not saying to hold everything in and never speak about your successes and journey, just as it isn’t smart to hold in dark issues that are eating at you. It’s always good to have a release. But let is be a soft release. Your friends don’t deserve to be a punching bag for you to aim your successes at. Perhaps a little humility and time spent alone with your success will go a long way with improving the work you do, holding them close to your heart for a while and drawing upon them for even more love and creativity before rashly throwing them at the first person you see.

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