DON'T COMPETE -- CREATE.

Why can't we have a world that works for everyone? If this is your experience, perhaps I can answer it for you with a few intensely personal questions that may start you rolling again on your journey of self-discovery :-

What is it you're attempting to accumulate? Is it money? Affection? Respect? Loyalty? Security? Power? Possessions? Knowledge? Wisdom? …..

Why? What's the poverty you're trying to hide?

Does someone else HAVE to lose in order for you to gain? From my experience, only if you're lazy, lack imagination, or there's something seriously out of whack in your psychology and social skills. In any case, you can never truly have anything you take from another because you're always expecting to lose what you “know” you don't deserve. You're well on your way into a lifetime of chronic dissatisfaction, anxiety and disappointment.

Life coach, Stephen R, Covey once wrote: The key to life is not accumulation. It is Contribution. But for as long as we live in duality and feel separated and powerless, we so easily get hooked up in parent thoughts of Lack and Loss, and games and rackets of Jealousy and Competition. For some personal reason it does not occur to us that, despite all evidence to the contrary, we have the power to create what we want for ourselves. We are awesomely powerful at creating what we DON”T want; how is it that we so vehemently refuse to trust our ability to create heaven on earth?

Out of that ignorance and contrariety, we re-enact the same old strategy of, by fair means or foul, stealing from others what we won't give ourself. Individuals, families, groups, tribes, and nations get caught up in “I”, “Me, and “Mine”, and go hammer and tongs to “grab it while I can get away with it.”

“Don't compete, create”. Freeing words! Byron Katie, in her book Loving What Is: writes “As long as you think that the cause of your problem is “out there”—as long as you think that anyone or anything else is responsible for your situation, it is hopeless. It means that you are forever in the role of victim, that you’re suffering in paradise.”

Wouldn't a life of creating be more fun and satisfying than continuing a life of impotence? 

Sit with these magic words for a while – “Don't compete, create”.

[That's the Way It is – Celine Dion – 4:02]