God and Company has no
competitors. There are no other goods so perfect as those we manufacture. ….God
and Company, therefore, never deals with competition but always with completeness.
– Ernest Holmes Your Invisible Power
Gratitude will lead your mind out
along the ways by which things come; and it will keep you in close harmony with
creative thought and prevent you from falling into competitive thought.
– Wallace Wattles Science of
Getting Rich
I enjoy some of the reality shows
with talented trained people showcasing their skills by competing with each
other for a prize that moves them forward in their career. The shows I like
showcase people who care about each other judged by experts who care about
their craft and desire to see the best of the best attain success. Rarely,
someone who is highly competitive succeeds because the very competitive lose
sight of their talent or training by focusing on someone they need to best.
I love to sing. I love to cook. I
love to dance. I love more the awareness that there are singers, dancers, and
chefs, some quite young, who present their work in a way that moves me to do my
best. Doing my best is win enough. Doing my best attracts my best to me without
taking from anyone. In fact, when I do my best, I give freely of myself to all
involved and I receive freely and abundantly in return. It tickles me that the
coaches and judges sometimes work with the “losers” to assist them in
furthering their careers. I delight that relatively unknown talents obtain
world exposure so anyone who is in a position to enhance their career knows how
good they are at what they do.
Was it Einstein who said that we
all have talent and genius but if we judge a fish by its ability to climb a
tree, it will spend its whole life thinking that it is stupid? I don’t compete
but I do create. I don’t even really create. I listen to inner wisdom from God,
my senior partner, and write it or speak it in my own style. Hedy Lamarr was an
amazing actress who held patents in the radar industry and loved to be
surrounded by beautiful art. Most people only knew her as an actress but she
obviously had many talents.
I believe that we all have many
talents but we are so busy feeling like fish out of water because our parents,
teachers, etc. prodded us along paths that we would not have chosen on our own.
I believe that at any age, no matter what our history, we can cease competing
with the world and begin to cooperate with our Higher Self, our senior partner
in life; and that by entering into self-cooperation, we discover our real
genius and bring it into play in our lives for a greater good than what we have
known.
Now, I focus on the Genius behind
my own. I look at my life and wherever I feel spontaneous gratitude, I give
that talent, skill, or interest my most intent attention. The Infinite responds
by prospering me in that intention and filling me with joy and gratitude for
all that I am and so it is.
John
John Lusk
“First
you ask definitely for direction, then it will enter your consciousness as a
definite thought; then in your turn you give it back the thought and it will
give you back the thing. It answers every question, solves every problem; it is
the solution to every difficulty.” Ernest Holmes
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