You celebrate them, of course.
If you’re anything like me though, that’s sometimes after a twinge of envy—a brief moment of wishing for a similar success.
That’s not the way of personal mastery, of course. There, others’ success is an enabler, a contribution to the greater good, and no threat at all to our self-esteem.
If you’re working on a change goal, here’s a useful test of your motives and purpose…
Were the goal to be achieved without you, would you welcome that, or is it more important to be contributing to the success?
Which matters more to you, working on change, or seeing the change happen?
Worth a moment’s reflection.
How do you benefit from others’ success?
One day he says one thing; the next another. He just doesn’t seem to “know his own mind.” If only he would stick to what he said.
In a word, “no,” not in my map, anyway. It’s tempting to think personal mastery means complete command of a subject or indeed oneself. But that’s an ideal rather than a reality, even for the most accomplished.
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