11 Steps To Success and Inner Peace

About two years after my mother gave me that piece of paper, I discovered it was actually an adaptation of the works of Dr. Wayne Dyer.

It's important to give credence to it's original creator because it's well deserved. Despite my paper's slight adaptation from the original work, I later read the book and became a fan of Dr. Dyer's books. They are great!

While some might find there is a religious twist on the version I share, it is in keeping with my faith and the faith I believe of the majority. I wish to share it in the form in which my mother gave it to me.

I will also share more about Dr. Dyer and offers for his books. They are fantastic and wonderful reading for those times when you don't feel at your very best. We all confront situations in our lives that can bring us down. We can let them defeat us or we can strive for success and inner peace on our terms. Reading is a great source of self-improvement and always makes you feel better. So let's live a life of Success and Inner Peace!

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Here are the 11 Secrets To Success and Inner Peace that my mother shared with me. This is a slight adaptation of Dr. Dyer's work and book but the message is inherently the same.

I will briefly share some things that are called to mind and relate in my life for each one. I encourage you to consider using these steps and your interpretation of them in your life. It's a great way to stay grounded and real. They can shape your day, life and future. They've been the start to most days for me and a great reflection when times seem difficult.

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Open-mindedness is a great thing. Often times we are so bogged down in our fixed way of thinking that we can't open our minds to broaden our horizons and enrich our lives.

This secret encourages you to open your mind. When it speaks of attachments I see it as our self defeating thoughts, our fears, the thoughts that hold us back.

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I used the cleaning images to symbolize what needs to be done with resentments in our lives as illustrated in Secret #3.

Now I know that this one is much easier said than done. I can admit to being guilty of wanting to hold a grudge. I think we all have that in our makeup. The bigger the hurt or disppointment, the harder it can be to let it go.

Something I've found really helpful while trying to work on Secret #3 within myself is asking myself why I am so resentful. To make it easier to let it go I always ask myself what purpose did whomever I'm resentful towards serve in my life.

Usually I find as I think things through that person served a purpose in my life. That higher purpose was to teach me a lesson about myself. The more aggravating and frustrating that person was and the harder the resentment to let go usually tells me that person was definitely put in my life to help me in my own self-discovery.

I am a believer that there are no accidents. Every person who is put in your path is there for a reason. Sometimes the reason isn't because that person was "meant to be" in your life but rather teach you a lesson about yourself and move down the road. So work on letting go of those resentments. When you send blame out of your life you are free to let many other good things come in and fill that space.

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I'm not going to get spiritual or religious here. Nor do I wish to debate anyone on what that one power is. For me, it's God. Plain and simple

Secret #5 is here to remind us that while we are on this journey called life there is someone more powerful than ourselves. A greater being however we worship and no matter what we call them. Again I'll say it for me, it's God.

It's humbling to know in a sense that someone else is ultimately in charge. But it likewise takes the burden off of us to think we have to run the show. Many people go through life actually thinking they run the show. When we humble ourselves to our greater power, we can live life as it presents itself more freer with this knowledge that they are running things, not us.

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Secret #8 is profound and true. It's likewise not one that's easy for us to admit.

Sometimes it takes us stepping out of ourselves and our thinking to solve a problem of our own making. We are largely a product of our thinking so if we want to change something it starts within. Beginning with our thought processes.

Some thought processes aren't easy to change. We don't feel comfortable doing that. We don't want to take responsibility for creating our own problems either.

We cling to the thought (problem) for dear life usually. We feel safe within the comfort zone of those thoughts.

The only way to fix the problem (whatever the problem is) is to change your viewpoint and thinking on the matter. It requires work. It's not easy and sometimes it's a stretch out of what we view as our safe comfort zone.

Keep the same mind and thoughts and you'll never solve the problem! Want to solve it? Change your thinking and viewpoint! Challenge yourself!

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