Success: Hustle versus Alignment
This fall I have my first speaking event in my career and I’m so excited. To make things even better the locations is a bar I used to work at when I was at a very low part of my life. I was in school for a program for a big career I didn’t feel aligned with, I was recovering from toxic mold, and living in my mother’s basement. I remember one of my last shifts there I literally cleaned up poop off the floor. Human poop. 🙈
And now I get to speak there for an audience.
We hear all the time that success comes from alignment not hustle. But what does that even mean?
It means you have integrity.
It means your thoughts match your emotions and actions. If you hate your job but still chose it and don’t even attempt to leave that’s out of alignment. If you don’t like your partner but stay that’s out of alignment. And if you speak poorly about yourself—that’s out of alignment (because you’re actually perfect ;)).
When it comes to success, just remember:
Anyone can be rich and make money.
This money can buy you a house but no home, a network but no intimacy, food but no full table. These things can’t be bought—only alignment can do that.
We need to remember we are WHOLE humans. Yes we can wealth but don’t do it at the cost of your health, relationships, joy, and pleasure. The thought that you cannot have it all is an old paradigm. You can have all of it. A full table, close friendships, wealth, and true love. All it takes is staying true to you and staying in alignment with your heart.
The system we model success after is made by men for men and it works for most of them because their hormones are on a 24h clock. But women work differently! Women flow more. We mirror the moon. We dance, we need joy, we bring abundance with our alignment and enjoyment of the present moment. That’s our dance with the universe.
This is a simplistic binary look at our sexes but you get the idea.
Success isn't one size fits all
There is room for both types of people to be successful.
The people who wake up early and hustle and grind and the people who could watch a bee make pollen pants all afternoon.
Written by MJ Renshaw
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