Doorways of Support and Inspiration:
Remembering Your Worth - No Matter What You Do or Who You Are

Claim Ownership of Your Self Identity  Stuart Zimmerman & Jared Rosen

Excerpted from Inner Security & Infinite Wealth: Merging  of Self Worth and Net Worth,  (SelectBooks, Inc., New York, New York, 2003)

 

The image that you convey to the world is created from the inside out through your own self-identity. This does apply to corporations as well. Corporations take ownership of their self-identity, shaping it to achieve their mission. Adopting the belief that its greatest assets are its reputation and employees, a corporation disowns the belief that it is a purely legal and inanimate entity. Instead, its self-image encompasses many human hearts and minds dedicated to a common goal. After all, even corporate makeovers are part of our inheritance.

Change is inevitable, anyway. Everything in the outer world is perpetually shifting, transforming and changing shape. Even your wealth is constantly fluctuating. Stock worth thousands today could be worth hundreds tomorrow.

 

Everything you own in the outer world is subject to change at any moment!

And, yet, this moment has never existed before!

 

In this moment, pick and choose from the totality of your inheritance the beliefs that support your dreams. Claim ownership of who you really want to be. It is time to own the virtues that will stimulate greater joy, flow and prosperity in your life. It is time to breathe these virtues into your deepest self.

 

Embody them!

 

Own them!

 

Go back to your will! [Note: the “will” here refers to New Year’s day practice of the making of resolutions and wish lists for the year to come]

 

When your will is in order, then you can clearly identify what you need to own to support you. For example, if your will is to become financially successful, you need to own a set of beliefs that serve you in this quest. This may also call for releasing beliefs that have inhibited you from achieving financial wealth today, such as the belief that money and power are addictive.

 

Claim the principles of money that support its attraction to you. Possess a complete set of ideals that are consistent with creating the wealth you want. Own the belief that you are worthy of material wealth. In order to achieve financial security, you do need to believe you are worthy. It is necessary to feel that you have value, and that you offer value in return for money.

 

Can you give me an example?

 

Even if you are a starving artist, you can become a millionaire. Others have. Their success is part of your inheritance. Every rags-to-riches story is your inheritance. Claim their success as your potential destiny. Disown the idea that it takes money to make money. Uphold the notion that your art is an expression of love-as is money. The concept that money can be an expression of love is also part of your inheritance. There need not be a separation between the two. Own the belief that your art is an expression of your love-your very being. That is worth its weight in gold.

 

If I am a starving artist, what virtues do I need to own to fulfill my destiny as a wealthy artist?

 

Patience, dedication and courage are three qualities that may enable you to reach your goal. You may need to feel that you do have the talent to break through the barrier of rejection and rise to the top. You may need to feel how sick and tired you are of waiting for your success. You may have to let go of your attachment to the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, and begin to enjoy each color and shade along the way. By enjoying the journey without attachment, you may find your way to your goal a lot easier. Your pot of gold may appear in an unexpected way.

 

How do you gain ownership of virtuous qualities such as patience, dedication and courage?

 

The first step to owning virtue is to return to your will. If your dream is to make money through your passion as an artist, feel the purity and strength of this desire. Sift through your vast inheritance to identify the thoughts, beliefs and virtues that support you in the achievement of this goal. In this case, to own patience, a virtuous quality that you believe enhances your success, become aware of when it is absent.

 

To be more patient, you will need to practice patience as a skill. Notice when you are impatient. Become aware of your breath. Shift your breath into a deep, relaxed rhythm. Using an affirmation such as "I now let go of time, I will get there when I get there," may help you to feel a deeper sense of patience.

Once you are feeling patient, you begin to let go of a need to control time. In that state of detachment from instant gratification, you are free to be in the timelessness of your passion for artistic expression. Dedication naturally flows from your passion. Through your dedication, your artistry has the time and space to evolve into its greatest forms of manifestation.

 

You may feel fear from time to time. It is only natural. Fear may even be your ally alerting you to potential danger. And, at times, it may be an old inherited response that prevents you from living your dreams. So, as you have free will, you are free to invite in your love of life in its entirety as well.

 

Courage is feeling your fears and rising above them to take right action. Your passion and love for what you hold most sacred, such as living the life of your dreams, override your fear of loss or failure. You can summon courage into your body when you arise, when you are in the shower, when you are stuck in traffic. When you go to sleep at night, you can embody or begin to embody these virtues. In time, courage becomes embodied within you, not an attribute separate from you.

 

Start right now.

 

Fan the flames of your burning desires.

 

Feel yourself breathing passion throughout your body.

 

Feel courage flowing through your veins, inspiring you to pierce the veil of limiting, fear-based beliefs you may have inherited from your parents, teachers and society.

 

As an artist, live a life of richness and passion. What you feel on the inside projects to the outside. Feel your wealth inside and it will show up in your outer life. You can bet your inheritance on it!

 

INSIDE, THERE IS NO LIMIT TO WHAT YOU CAN OWN.

 

It just may not show up the way you think. You may end up finding your abstract designs on sheets and pillowcases instead of canvas.

Anything is possible!

 

Be open!

 

Place no limits on what you own!

 

Excerpted from Inner Security & Infinite Wealth: Merging of Self Worth and Net Worth, by Stuart Zimmerman & Jared Rosen (SelectBooks, Inc., New York, New York, 2003).

 

© 2003 Stuart Zimmerman and Jaren Rosen. All rights reserved. Reprinted by permission of the authors.

 

Stuart Zimmerman and Jared Rosen, authors of Inner Security& Infinite Wealth: Merging  of Self Worth and Net Worth are principles of Inner Securities, Inc. whose mission is to provide products and services that promote the discovery of one’s true identity, the fulfillment of one’s ddest heart’s desires, and the redefinition of money as an expression of love. Inner Securities Training and Consulting provides individuals, families, small groups and corporations an opportunity to recreate their relationship to money, love and power. Zimmerman has spent over 20 years in the securities industry and lives with his wife and children in Northern California. Rosen is a pioneer in the field of emotional and spiritual intelligence and also lives in Northern California with is beloved wife and daughter. For more information, contact the authors at info@innersecurities.com or go to: www.innersecurities.com.