QUOTATION OF THE WEEK
Put your heart, mind, intellect, and soul even to your smallest
acts. This is the secret of success.
--Swami Sivananda
PERSONAL REFLECTIONS
When you think of success, what comes to mind? It is the completion of the large goals of life? Does it come only when we reach our loftiest desires? Is it the culmination of days, months, years of hard work? While these things can be successes, they should not be done at the price of acknowledging the success we achieve in even the smallest acts. After all, every day of our lives we have successes. It may be something as simple as giving help to a stranger and receiving a warm thank you in return. It may by just the fact you took a pause and enjoyed a beautiful sunset or stopped in your busy life to pet a kitten. A success may be that you just did what you knew was right. These and so many more things are our daily successes, and we need to honor them.
We have very little difficulty in acknowledging our perceived little failures. Why not honor our small successes instead? If you put "your heart, mind, intellect, and soul even to your smallest acts" and acknowledge these small successes, it will create a habit of success that will affect the way you act and react to life. The small successes will lose their smallness and become the stuff that builds your character and values.
So honor your small successes. Be thankful for the many, many opportunities to be successful throughout a day and put your "heart, mind, and intellect" fully into them. You will then know, as Swami Sivananda wrote, ". . . the secret of success."
Blessings and Love,
Allen Schmeltz
Copyright © 2000 Allen F. Schmeltz. All rights reserved.
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