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Licking Your Wounds Only Makes Them Bigger
By Sonia Miller | January 2, 2008
Remember my challenge to you? Make 2008 a year of giving. I shared with you that one of the fastest ways to unleash abundance in your own life is to focus on giving rather than getting. This week’s feature article will lend more insight into how exactly to do this and why it works. I hope to encourage you beyond the hypothetical into a concrete positive experience because my passion for this idea is rooted in a an event that changed my life.
You see, there was a time when I was quite self-absorbed. I’m not proud of it, but the fact was that I didn’t know any better. I was simply living my life, doing the best I could, battling my inner demons of insecurity and confusion about who I was and what life was about.
Well, one day my life changed when because of my self-absorption, I was fired from a volunteer leadership position! (Imagine getting fired from a volunteer position. How humiliating!) Yet, the experience came to be a remarkable gift.
I got fired because I didn’t “get it” about being of service. I was in training for a job that served participants in a personal-growth seminar who came in search of healing for themselves and their families. However, I was more concerned with whether or not I’d get the job and what people would think of me if I failed.
My peers pushed me to get to the root of my self-sabotage. Finally, I uncovered and broke through the limiting belief that kept me in a perpetual state of licking-my inner wounds. I discovered that I would never find the love, appreciation and validation I sought by trying to “get” it from others. But when instead I focused on “giving” those same qualities, the emptiness within me was filled to overflowing. All I had to do was get the attention off of myself.
My wish for you this holiday season and in the New Year is that you unleash the abundance in your life by discovering the freedom of true giving!
Choose Your Reality!™
Sonia
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