Should We Expect to Be Liked If We Don't Like Ourselves?
Do we feel we are talking / walking in accorrdance with what we actually want to get accross to others?
The great theologian Steven Tyler once said, "Walk This Way".
I don't think there was any huge message, there, on his part, when he wrote it (he had to actually write it a second time, having left the original lyrics in a taxi cab).
My point is, how happy are you going to be if monetary success is your goal.
There aren't many examples of people who have had a serious measure of monetary success by being integral people, unfortunately. At least it seems that way to me.
Yes, money comes in pretty handy. And we should be happy to have it when it comes, especially these days, despite and because of it's increasingly meager value... You can only keep printing money with nothing behind it before somebody's lifestyle is going to start to suffer...
I live a very paltry life. And it has instilled in me values that I wouldn't have otherwise had.
I have had to painfully deduce that it produced a sense of poverty in me, which I have had had to fight all my life, and now realize has built something good in me. I would never wish a spirit of poverty on anyone, but as much as it harmed me, it delivered something wonderful for me, in it's ugly hands.
And I have realized that I do this blog thing for the right reasons. And the more I realise that, the better I get at it. At the end of the day, I will be proud of what I do.
You can just start rattling off thoughts that are an extension of your heart, and bring it around to fit your topic. Or maybe it will turn into another topic, but whichstill fits your niche.
If you are doing what you are supposed to be, you will know it, at some point.
Especially if you can manage to stay in tune with the voice you heard when you got started in this, in the first place, if you still see it as a true voice.
That is a rambling, jumble of thoughts is what that is.
I'm about as un-sorry about that as ever, though. :)
Cheers.
Craig
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Not sure how your story fits your title, but I do believe that we must first like ourselves. Then others will be more apt to like us.
As for money, yes, I'd like to see the money come rolling in, but I am happy doing what I do, money or not. I believe that eventually if enough people see my website, they will buy stuff and the money will com.
Yes, it did seem to go quickly astray from the title, didn't it? Haha.
I'm glad you are enjoying doing it.
We all walk our own path, eventually. It takes time for us to realize that being true to ourselves is really the only thing we need to accomplish, or should I say the first thing we need to accomplish. Many people never get to be true to themselves, they are so wrapped up in the image of themselves, that they cannot be true.
It is a sad state of affairs, but one that is often repeated.
Alex
Walk your walk, whichever way that may be. A very thoughtful post, Craig. Thanks for sharing your thoughts.
Susan
Finding one's way is a journey, and sometimes the trail seems a bit random. Keep on trucking and seeking your personal truth.
Living in poverty thought patterns are sometimes difficult to grow out of. Now, I realize I was in poverty in my mind, never in this real world.
I realized that I could go to the grocery store with ONLY $40, or that I could go to the same store with the same $40 and buy EVERYTHING that $40 would buy. It is in my mind that things have to change.
They finally did!
Sami
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Great attitude Craig. I think money is something that comes after doing something you love. I certainly wouldn’t be here if I didn’t enjoy myself, lol..sometimes too much.
But I don’t see money as the goal. The goal is helping others in clarifying my position as being able to help if needed.
The reward is having people accept that help or belief ant then the money is an outcome only..Starting to get a bit convoluted here I am…lol.
Steve Tyler..Did he write might as well jump, or was that someone else…ironic if the same person. Walk this way leads to might as well jump..hoho.
Stephen
Haha, no. Jump was Van Halen.
I don't know if anyone who didn't grow up in Canada would know Kim Mitchell...? He had a song that says, "Might as well go for soda". You could work that in, too...