Louise’s reflection post on Redefining Failure and Dirk’s heartfelt response resonated deeply. It posed an interesting dichotomy between failure as not trying at all versus trying and not living up to the expectations we, or others, have placed on us.
Nobody who embarks on a path of entrepreneurship sets out to fail. We expect success! Booming success. The kind of success that makes a full-time job and all its perks lose their power.
We believe we’re able.
We believe we’re worthy.
We believe we’ve got what it takes to succeed.
And then we don’t.
Bringing it back to vibration and my understanding of it, we start our entrepreneurship journey with excitement, and often an equal amount of fear. The fear. Therein lies the contradiction.
Buying into traditional beliefs about what entrepreneurship is supposed to be, we do what others are doing expecting the same the results. Get the website. Get the social media presence. Get the community. Get the lead generation going. If you get it right, you’ll get the clients. All ways of controlling the outcomes.
THE VIBRATION OF ASKING AND RECEIVING
Knowing what we now know about energy, frequency, resonance, and vibration, it’s the fear that holds us ransom. If the fear is prevalent, we’re darned if we do and we’re darned if we don’t.
In the image, I’ve illustrated this vibration of asking and receiving.
When we ask life for what we need, do we do it from a place of fear, healing, or wholeness?
We’ll know by our next steps…
Do we ask and try to control how it happens?
Do we ask and accept whatever happens?
Do we ask and trust whatever happens is for the greatest good of all?
At any one moment, we have access to our human self and our higher self. Our all-knowing higher self operates from a vibration of unconditional love and universal wisdom. It’s the highest vibration that transcends time, space, and separation between “us” and “them” and knows the fastest route to getting whatever we’ve asked for.
REDEFINING FAILURE
In response to Louise’s question “What does failure mean to you?” I would say failure, for me, is a fleeting moment of forgetting who I am, i.e. my higher self, which then allows me to change course, which then allows me to surrender, which means it’s not failure after all.
I have learnt to accept the outcome…
And then trust that whatever unfolds is for the greatest good of all.
Failure then becomes a mindful, beautiful high-vibrational gift that reminds me to reconnect with my highest self.
