By Jim Selman |
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New Year’s is a time to reflect and remember.
I was reviewing some old ‘resolutions’ and came upon one that has
served me well over the years. It may be one of the most useful and
relevant bits of wisdom I have to share with people.
“The important thing is to choose what we have and
give up our attachment to what we don’t have—so we can have the space
to create our dreams and manifest our intention.”
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I was talking with a fellow recently who was asking why this blog is
called Serene Ambition™. He thought that the two words didn't seem to
go together. He could get 'serenity' and also understand 'ambition',
but together they made no sense to him. In our normal way of relating
to the world, you can have serenity (meaning inner peace, calmness,
maybe even joy) or you can be ambitious (meaning committed to creating
or accomplishing something in the future)—but not both together. In some ways, we might say these two terms label the best of East and West.
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Since I starting blogging a couple of months ago, I find myself
waking up in the middle of the night with something inside me screaming
to be said. Tonight it is cynical ambition. What I mean by that is the
kind of “Do anything for power — or money, or sex, or fame”. You can
fill in the ‘it’ that people will do anything to have.[
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