Introduction to the Practice (3 of N): What makes some succeed?
What makes some succeed?
Just as some of us are better singers, or some days we are more coordinated than other days, there is a great deal of variability in the effectiveness of any given thing which we might do. The final measure of success is the results of the potential generated—what eventually happens.
We see that some of our actions have more power than others to affect the future—they generate more potential:
- Some people have more power to affect their own futures and the future of others;
- In some areas we are more effective, that is, we each have areas of “talent”.
- Within different scopes we will have more or less effect—I may find that I can effect something in my home or business, but not in every home or business. (Though someone else with different knowledge, capability, or capacity may do just that.)
Where do the variations come from?
- Capacity: our talent, skill, knowledge
- Congruency: our ability to stay on track, to stay focused
- Alignment: our ability to find our updraft—the purpose and direction which is ours—and to align ourselves with it.
Alignment is an important facet of our success toolkit, that is, our ability to sense or intuit the possibilities that are already in the pipeline so to speak. If we can find a creative current that has a strong potential already we can leverage it’s momentum into our lives by our engagement with it. Ideas and intuitions we have are often precisely these potentials coming into our awareness. Part of this creative practice is to develop our ability to fully engage with the existing potentials, learning to leverage this current as our own creative power.
So we see that our success in affecting the future is mediated by many factors:
- Our ability to sense what is already arising in the potential of the future,
- Our ability to catch the current of that arising potential,
- Our ability to generate appropriately directed action,
- And then, what everyone and everything else is doing.
Our ability to dramatically change our world is limited to our ability to generate potential through powerful individual and group action, knowing all the while that everyone is making things happen, but many are only diffusely effective.
It is key to remember that an action does not generate a result. An action generates potential that arises with the rest of the potential into an actuality. This indirection is key to understanding the magic of the arising universe and understanding this will dramatically enhance our ability to succeed.
