By Robert Stuberg
It's a curious irony that although everyone wants the best life has to offer, the vast majority of the world's population never discovers the secret for improving their lives. This requires discovering the simple but important secret that we only improve our lives when we improve ourselves. Stated another way, you could simply say that the secret to making your life better is making yourself better!
This is one of the most rewarding secrets of life anyone can learn. In order to have more or get more of what you want, you must first become more as a person. Everything you want in life can be yours if you learn to make the most of your hidden potential. And by changing yourself for the better, you change the world for the better.
I recall the insightful words of Don Quixote in "Man of La Mancha," who said, "Love not what thou art, only what thou may become." It's so important to both experience and to enjoy the liberating understanding that it is OK to aspire to a better self, even to love that better self you can become.
The idea is to begin using your own self improvement as the means for attracting success. In many ways, this contradicts the popular notion that success is a golden object we must pursue. But the truth is, you're better off if you don't pursue success, but instead, make it come to you because of the person you become.
The process of focusing on improving yourself has some interesting consequences. You'll find that your world will expand with the expansion of your personal development skills and disciplines. The abundance of that larger, new world will be attracted to you in direct proportion to the rate of your personal development. You attract what you want in life as you become the complete person you have the power to become.
And then be prepared for a surprising transformation. As you grow through personal development, you'll find that you've acquired what can only be described as a mysterious magnetic power. It's the magnetic force that attracts success to you. You are no longer pursuing success, it is now chasing you.
This is a completely foreign concept for people who believe they have to change their circumstances -- or the people around them -- for their lives to get better. They are accustomed to thinking, if only they could live somewhere else! If only they had a better boss! If only they could find the right special someone to make life complete! As they see it, life would be a whole lot better if only the world were nicer to them.
What seems to elude so many really isn't that difficult to understand. It's one of those fundamental laws of living that everyone ought to know. That law clearly states that we can change our world by changing ourselves.
I believe this is what the famous French writer André Guide (jheed) had in mind when he wrote, "Never cease to be convinced that life might be better -- your own and others".
When you think about it, would you really want it any other way? The system places control of our lives in our hands. We get to decide how our lives will turn out. And once we've found our purpose for fulfilling our mission in life, success will begin to pursue us. That's what I call a great system!
Robert Stuberg is an entrepreneur, speaker, consultant and best-selling author of many books, including The 12Life Secrets, Creating Your Ultimate Destiny and Sell and Grow Rich. Stuberg specializes in helping people find and apply their unique talent—the one thing that they are meant to do
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