Has Your Way Worked

Many years ago I had the fortunate experience of joining a cult called Amway. It was one of the more interesting cults I have ever joined.

Despite the man who ended up being my "sponsor" lying to get me down to the meeting, I was intrigued enough to get sucked into joining and then signing up for the real product.

The Motivational Tapes.

My favorite one was from a man who was very successful there, Larry Winters.

It was titled Has Your Way Worked.

The man had a real gift in talking from the soul, of sharing desperation, repeating routines that got us nowhere. And of his own personal triumph in changing his ways to become one of the most successful MLM marketers in the world.

That's one of the scary truths about cults most refuse to acknowledge.

For some folks, it gives just the right amount of rope and encouragement to actually make a life changing course.

The right kindling to really get that fire roaring, to burn where most of the others kindling quickly burnt out.

Turns out sometimes if you believe something strong enough you can somehow change from the round peg to the square peg and fit through that square hole now.

The Haunting Question.

Has your way worked.

I've returned to this question many times in my life since wearing the crap out of that tape many years ago when I bought it.

I would venture to say that not only has my way not worked, but just about everyone who comes here, regardless of how briefly or for a long time still has that itch needing scratched.

One would think that the silent desperation that hovers around us, polluting the depths of our souls would be enough that all of us could be like Mr. Winters and embrace so strongly new ways we made manifest what most seem unable to create.

Yet there is something so strongly entrenched in our need for familiarity. Our need for the routine that we so often cling to our ways that have proven not to work.

Better the devil you know than the one that might lie ahead.

Get out of your own way.

This has often been a major hurdle throughout my life. I imagine most who can withstand critically looking at themselves will also concede they are often what stands in their own way.

Often rationalizations made using comparisons.

Oh, I couldn't do that.

I'm not a writer.

I'm not an expert.

On and on, the excuses.

I remember back when I was in another cult. There was a saying that if a person really believed this religions teachings, one would be at the holy place every week.

This ties in so well with that powerful statement by Mr. Winters.

Has your way worked? + Do you believe the new way you avoid can work?

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Do you believe YOU can make it work?

What would it take for you to believe if others can do it, so can you? You see proof in front of you that others are doing it. Why not you?

What would it take to believe you deserve more than the familiar routines the cults you've walked in throughout your life have given you? Can you shed those shackles you've embraced?

It all starts and ends with that same question.

HAS YOUR WAY WORKED?