What to do with Disappointment

One of the most powerful indicators of your over-arching Success — in business or in simply living the life of your Dreams...

...is how you handle Disappointment.

What you do with it.
What you allow it to mean about you.
What you allow it to mean about your Dreams.
How long you let it 'take you out' — of the game, of your Belief, of your Devotion, of your Desire, of your ability to Receive.

Tools to help you continually find your Power and your willingness to OPEN in the face of Disappointment are a game-changer.

But what about when you feel like you disappoint OTHERS?

What do you do with that?

It's a form of feeling Disappointment, too, isn't it?

Because the LAST thing you want — as the beautiful loving Heart that you are — is to disappoint the people who love you, who Believe in you, who invest in you, who have shared themselves with you.

{ Some may see that as a weakness — I don't...
The "screw what everyone thinks, I don't care if I disappoint anyone" may seem empowered,
but we're BUILT to care about and consider the feelings of others... we're BUILT to consider the rest of the village...
When we're not, in my view, that's counter to Connection, counter to Harmony, counter to Creation Energy... i.e. counter to the energetics of Thriving. }

So, you DO care about disappointing others.
And so, what you do with that?

Do you shut down around it? Either shutting yourself down, or shutting out those you've disappointed?
What do you allow it to mean about you?
That you're less Worthy or Lovable now? That there's something wrong with you?
What do you allow it to mean about your Dreams?
That you're somehow less capable of reaching them? Or that maybe they aren't meant for you anyway?

How long do you let it 'take you out' — of the game, of your Belief, of your Devotion, of your Desire, of your ability to Receive?

I'm sitting with this one tonight.

Me, the consummate (former) people pleaser,
who hates letting people down.
Even if it's just in my own head.
I know how I coach around this,
I know the Energetic principles I teach around this,
but I'm sitting in the fire of "being a let-down"
(my Ego's words, not anyone else's)
so that I can burn away more and more and more of the part of me that is STILL being driven by the fear of being disappointing;
the one who makes Choices SO THAT I don't disappoint.

She's ready to go.

And how I'm doing that is:

I'm letting myself feel it.

Not as Shame or guilt,
because those would come just from the Stories I would tell myself from Wound.

No, I'm letting myself feel the rawness of it.
The nakedness of it.
The "this is me"-ness of it.

And I'm letting myself feel the LOVE in it.

Because that's what this is... It's Love.

Love is the only reason we care about disappointing anyone else — or ourselves.
We simply want to be able to Open our Hearts more —
— and it's our Stories around Disappointment,
and the things we let ourselves Believe around it,
that has us wanting to shut them down.