Success is Not a Straight Climb to the Top

James Ray recently shared an interesting concept with me. Great leaps forward in consciousness and ability are typically preceded by a crash or a fall of some sort in your life.

In other words, something happens that really knocks the props out from under what you think should be or is, and then you come to this breakthrough. Quantum physics and chaos theory scientists have proved that is true. Ilia Prigogine won the Nobel Prize for a concept he called dissipating systems. He proved beyond a doubt is that all things are going into a greater state of chaos. In fact that's the second Law of Thermodynamics is increasing entropy.

What Prigogine found in this principle of dissipating systems is that when systems come to this chaos point, they do one of two things--they either die and that's why a lot of entrepreneurial ventures go out of business in the first few years and statistics prove that. If they don't die, they always reorganize at greater capacity and capability. And so, that's what happens to us as an individual as well.

The road is not always easy. I've had many personal crises or crashes in my life, and I'm still here. What that means is that on the back side of that I've reorganized at greater capacity and capability and broken through to a new level of consciousness and achievement.

One of the studies I read, you can make twenty percent improvement, and then you have five percent setbacks. Then you make another twenty percent improvement and you have another five or ten percent setback. And that's just the way it works. You cannot escape gravity, but you can continue against it.

I think we have lopsided perception to think that anybody is on 100% rosy street. It's absolutely possible, but not in a traditional sense of the understanding. I think we have this lopsided perception that we're going to get to this place where we make our first million or our second or our third or whatever it is, or we grow our business to multi millions and then we're going to be on constant Rosy Street.

Well, if you're going to have a multi-million dollar income, you're going to have multi-million dollar challenges. The great breakthrough though is that you get to a place, if you're truly evolving and you get to a place where those things don't rattle you anymore... You know, the things that used to rattle you no longer grip you the way they did before because you evolve.

And so, true equilibrium and true wealth comes internally, not externally, because the waves are always going to hit you. It's how you deal with those things that determine your level of conscious evolution.

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Scott Martineau has put together a collection of inspirational works by some of today’s greatest spiritual minds. He is dedicated to creating a greater quality of life by enriching levels of understanding and inspiration. You can find out more about Scott and these remarkable authors at http://www.consciousone.com.