The above formula is a powerful reminder that the only real obstacle to your achieving phenomenal success, joy and peace in your ideal career, is an internal resistance that is within your control.
In other words, the obstacles are never outside of you. The obstacle lies within, and could be your self-doubts, your fears, your low self-esteem, your negatively charged emotions, etc.
Indeed, in most cases, you know your potential and you know what you want in life (unless you’re 10 years old!). What you may not know is that how you think of yourself (i.e. your self-esteem) and all the emotions you associate with yourself, are often negative and ARE the major obstacle to realizing your potential. Your negative emotions build up an internal Resistance that prevents joy, peace and happiness to flow to you.
Look, you have great potential. You know it. I know it. And your mom definitely knows it!
But you also have resistance within you. It could be the belief that you don’t deserve to have an amazing career, and this belief could have been inculcated in you by various people as you grew up. This feeling of unworthiness could have come from past lifetimes (for those of you who believe in reincarnation).
So there is a conflict between your Potential and your Resistance. All you have to do is let go of your prejudice or tendency to judge things before you experience them. This release of resistance could save you YEARS of struggle, frustration and stress.
For example, some people have so little resistance that they embark upon their ideal career in their early 20s. They just go through life doing everything they want to do. They are not influenced by other people’s opinions or negative judgments. Sometimes, close friends, siblings and parents can be the source of much negative judgment. So love them because they have good intentions, but realize they have their own emotional issues so do not be sucked into their negative thinking for it will increase your own resistance.
Then there are people who resist, resist and resist until they are 50, because they prefer to be “right” rather than be “happy.” They will do all the normal things that a normal person “should” do and yet, they will miss their purpose in life, not realizing that there is no need to sacrifice one’s happiness at the altar of political correctness. Sometimes, at age 50, they finally understand (if they are lucky) and abandon their stressful or meaningless job to launch their ideal career. Other times, they face a severe medical crisis and they “awaken” sooner.
One path is not necessarily better than the other since every human being has absolute freedom of choice in regards to the timetable of his/her evolution. So even for the person who awakens at age 50, it is never too late.
My role is simply to offer guidance and knowledge to those who WANT, right now, to embark upon their ideal career. My function is to save you time (and suffering, pain, frustration, stress, illness, etc.).
By the way, illness, stress, fear, frustration, etc. are all UNNATURAL. They arise because a person is RESISTING her own well-being by having negative thoughts and by judging others and by being critical.
As mentioned in a previous post, your body is only a learning device for your mind. The state of your body (its health, its vitality, etc.) is a reflection of how well you are using your mind.
But let’s get back to my formula, or Success / Joy / Fulfillment = Potential – Resistance.
As you clarify your potential and write down PRECISELY everything you want to experience in your ideal career, you naturally begin to shift your attention AWAY from whatever resistance you are offering to yourself, and begin to clarify your thinking.
As a result, you will succeed more and more, and you will feel joy and passion flowing through you. That’s because your Potential becomes clearer and clearer while your Resistance is progressively reduced.
However, if you focus on your Resistance (negative feelings, criticisms, prejudice, problem-seeking, etc.) without trying to heal your emotional issues, you will cloud your perception of your potential (which never changes). That’s when you begin to experience what people call “failure.”
In fact, there is no “failure” really, it’s just that you chose a tough path to follow. Eventually, every person — in this life or the next — will find and achieve their ideal career.
The Ideal Career Framework was created to allow you to get there sooner, with less pain, frustration and stress.
