I recently read Wayne Dyer’s new book I Can See Clearly Now, in which he said something that had a profound impact on me, “I’ve never chased success…success has always chased me.” As I’ve thought about this over the past few weeks, I realize that not only have I spent much of my life chasing success, the idea of letting success chase me (i.e. allowing it to show up with ease) is a complete paradigm shift from how I often operate and how we are mostly taught to create success.
In this week’s video blog, I explore this idea of letting success chase us and invite each of us (myself included) to let go of our attempts to control success, and instead to allow it to manifest through trust and faith.
Feel free to share your thoughts, insights, and ideas about letting success chase you here on my blog.
As always Mike, in just 3 minutes you encapsulate the essence of what so many of us are grappling with as we seek to live the best life we can. Thanks for the warm, inspiring reminder that “What We Want, Wants Us.” Love, Jane
Thanks Jane! I appreciate your kind words…nice to hear from you! Hope you are well!
Sign me up, baby! Yeah, chase, chase, chase – and then the phone rings with some great offer and BOOM! Really? But I wasn’t even looking over there! 🙂
So many of these blessings every week. And I keep my eyes focused what I love and believe to be important. All that success is roaming around and then it sees a match to my gifts – and I welcome it.
Thanks – thoughtful piece, and I’ll grab both books (yours and Wayne’s). How the heck does he crank out a new book every 12 days?!?! Oh yeah, success chasing him.
Amen Barry!
Mike – I’m happy to report that I will be reviewing your book shortly! Looking forward to reading it.
Thanks Corinne – hope you enjoy the new book!
Such a great way to refocus on service. When the intention is to truly serve with excellence you can find the space to detach from the outcome. But when the outcome defines your success you get so attached you can no longer allow.
This resonated so deeply with me, yet, clearly putting it into practice will require a new level of understanding. Practice, practice, practice.
Very helpful message. Thanks!
Yes…service…and, practice…both very important!
What you say is so true……because I look back and things seemed to just happen to me. Not that I chased anything— I gently pushed into each situation. I always have to remember to listen to my inner voice, because when I am not doing what it says, I learn later that I should have. Excellent blog, as usual.
Thanks!
Hello Mike; lately i have ben blessed to receive opportunities to be featured on other people’s sites. I didn’t set out to achieve this. I just kept doing my work on a daily basis focusing on stretching myself and getting better and people just approached me to do things. One woman interviewed me about having had gastric surgery. another interviewed me about being blind and how it effects my daily life. and a fellow from switzerland asked me to be on his podcast. I enjoyed all the experiences and did them without thinking of the results or possible outcomes. I recently started doing some of my own videos and it feels good to do them even though I have no aspirations of becoming a youtube superstar and getting a tv show or anything like that. I’m just enjoying the process and hoping it will lead to some equipment sales. I wish you all the best with the book. I won’t be preordering it but i will read it as soon as they add it to the national library services for the blind site. thanks for the video messages and take care, Max
Thanks Max – I appreciate your sharing…good stuff!
On chasing success, for years I was concerned about the future now I set a plan and ask the following questions: is this good for me (the person that I am today) and who I strive to be in the future? If it means more money and material things but the answer is no, then I let it go and allow the next opportunity to reveal itself.
I love letting things unfold organically. The push-push-push has never worked for me. This creates a strange challenge in balance because I’m such an over-achiever! But I find that I can focus my thoughts toward “My vision is ___” and still be an over-achiever in visioning!
I noticed about 20 years ago one December, as I pulled out my goals list for the year, that I hadn’t accomplished one single goal. But when I made a list of all the wonderful things that had happened that year, I was pretty impressed. It just fascinated me how different the two lists were! So I don’t set goals anymore, and I don’t work like a madwoman anymore. But I do envision the crazy-good possibilities and then let them unfold organically!
If you ever thought of having a short study group in this new book, I’d be interested!
Mike,
This concept really hit home and I loved hearing your thoughts on chasing what we want. I’m a big believe in having a plan, but the piece I enjoyed hearing most was being able to have tremendous TRUST the experiences we want and are committed to will show up. We don’t have to ‘make’ them happen.
Thank you as always,
Karen xo