Why did I have to experience it? Why or how is it I thought it necessary to set myself back in a profound way?
Imagine we were in a conference hall, a crowd of a few hundred people. The next speaker is introduced and we are informed they will discuss their recent setback in life, and we judge it as foolish and uneccessary in a superficial way.
They experience a totally life changing volcanic eruption in their lifestyle, though we audience members categorize it as just plain insanity, to justify our daily progress, and forward thinking goal setting, self disciplines and happiness expectations. We think glad it happened to you and not me my friend.
We feel compassion certainly, and maybe empathy for the speaker, all this in the moments following disclosure of the setback details.
Some of us might be snickering, some aghast that such a setback could occur.
An array of human reaction and expressions occur, throughout the conference space, as each individual reacts, responds or processes what they’ve just heard the speaker say to them.
Now within two minutes of beginning their talk, the speaker turns it around and says: “now what does this have to do with you; why am I telling you this?”
(silence in the audience)..
the speaker pauses more..
an uncomfortably period of time passes before they speak again; all the while they search for the one or two that know the truth and answer..
They go on.. “you see, what I learned is that we cause our own setbacks”.
Can YOU admit YOU caused a setback in your own life..
..people begin to remember their setbacks..
they continue..
“we choose our behaviors, consciously or unconsciously” they continue.. people shift in their seats..
They elaborate: “we can play the victim card, or we can play the victory card” in all that we do. Which ever card we play, comes from our mindset, heart set; our alignment with our well being focus, or from the “inner realm noise” that blocks our prosperity.
Then we are asked:
How clear and aligned are you? Are you coming from enlightenment, or perhaps fearfulness from facing an indescribable Goliath?
Are you “setback bulletproof”? How’s your relationship with YOU?
If you were given a prosperity consciousness test, how would you estimate you would do on the test?
Are you accurate in your definitions of Prosperity, mediocrity, poverty, self respect, self esteem and worthiness?
What are your deepest beliefs? Are those beliefs still serving you?
Would you be able to own the setback? Could you admit YOU were the cause?
How would this affect your thinking? Is critical thinking a strength of yours?
What could you do to improve those skills?
Setbacks, I believe are “setups” for a resilient self reinvention.
Are you in the deep with me on this, or simply at “the surface”.
What are your thoughts? I’m writing this for me. If it helped you, let me know,
it will be gratifying to know.
Thought provoking isn’t it? How do you handle yourself in a crisis?
Do you believe setbacks are “setups” for something more beautiful and wondrous or.. not so much..
I’ll leave this with you to ponder.
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