Feedback is essential to get what you love
When I was a child, learning to walk, I was given so much encouragement and support that I thought nothing of the several hundred, even thousand, times that I fell as I learned. Indeed, the quote by Thomas Edison "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work" is particularly relevant.
The facts that we all learned how to walk, despite numerous falls and that Edison invented the lightbulb appear to get diluted as most of us get older. For many of us the words progress and learning are replaced with stagnation and failure. Why?
Because I am not considered as cute as I was when I was an infant, the voices of encouragement became less frequent. It has taken many years to turn up the volume on my internal voice and stop listening to the external voices that would crush my dreams and aspirations. Ultimately, life is a test of congruence - when I haven't been doing things that I love it has been very easy to listen to external voices that criticise me - my internal voice has then jumped on the bandwagon and I had become a master of self-sabotage.
However, having found Walk Innovation - something I love to do - processing feedback has become easier. All external voices that offer me feedback on how to do things better are gratefully received. All of those who wish to try and pin their own limiting beliefs and restrictions upon me are compassionately received. This has not always been the case but now it is. My life purpose involves helping people to move through their pain. The people who would give me the most pain (if I allowed them to) are the ones who need help the most. Knowing that I am living what I love makes it easy to deflect negativity of others and, if the situation allows, replace it with hope.
Anyone who would desire to crush the dreams and aspirations of others is put in your life as a guardian. They are there to test your faith in achieving your dreams and goals. Loving what you do will enable you to love all feedback. When this happens there is no longer positive and negative - just learning and understanding. To reach that place is a wonderful feeling. To get there you simply go for what you love - and keep going until you get there, regardless what happens on the way.
The facts that we all learned how to walk, despite numerous falls and that Edison invented the lightbulb appear to get diluted as most of us get older. For many of us the words progress and learning are replaced with stagnation and failure. Why?
Because I am not considered as cute as I was when I was an infant, the voices of encouragement became less frequent. It has taken many years to turn up the volume on my internal voice and stop listening to the external voices that would crush my dreams and aspirations. Ultimately, life is a test of congruence - when I haven't been doing things that I love it has been very easy to listen to external voices that criticise me - my internal voice has then jumped on the bandwagon and I had become a master of self-sabotage.
However, having found Walk Innovation - something I love to do - processing feedback has become easier. All external voices that offer me feedback on how to do things better are gratefully received. All of those who wish to try and pin their own limiting beliefs and restrictions upon me are compassionately received. This has not always been the case but now it is. My life purpose involves helping people to move through their pain. The people who would give me the most pain (if I allowed them to) are the ones who need help the most. Knowing that I am living what I love makes it easy to deflect negativity of others and, if the situation allows, replace it with hope.
Anyone who would desire to crush the dreams and aspirations of others is put in your life as a guardian. They are there to test your faith in achieving your dreams and goals. Loving what you do will enable you to love all feedback. When this happens there is no longer positive and negative - just learning and understanding. To reach that place is a wonderful feeling. To get there you simply go for what you love - and keep going until you get there, regardless what happens on the way.
Labels: essential, feedback, learning, love, paths, persistence, walk innovation
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