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Law #7

Position Yourself To Be Blessed

Blessed - Consecrated; sacred; holy; sanctified. Worthy of adoration, reverence, or worship. Divinely or supremely favored; fortunate.

Imperfections - A defect or flaw. Something that is NOT entirely without any flaws, defects, or shortcomings.

Failures - The condition or fact of not achieving the desired end or ends. The condition or fact of being insufficient or falling short.

Successes - The achievement of something desired, planned, or attempted.

Talents - A marked innate ability. Natural endowment or ability of a superior quality.

Source: Dictionary.com

My imperfections and failures are as much a blessing from God as my successes and my talents and I lay them both at his feet.

(Mahatma Gandhi)

What Was Gandhi Suggesting?

In my opinion, Mahatma Gandhi was suggesting that we should not only be grateful for our successes and talents, but we should also be grateful for our failures and our imperfections. To me, success is the opposite of failure and talent is the opposite of imperfection. This has very much of a yin/yang feel to it.

As you can see, there is a little white dot inside of the yin (black) and a little black dot inside of the yang (white). This diagram is intended to symbolize the idea that the see of the opposite is in every extreme.

In other words, every success has the seed of failure in it. Every bit of failure contains the seed of success.

Likewise, every talent has the seed of imperfection within. Every bit of imperfection contains the seed of talent.

So What Does This All Mean?

It means that we need to experience what it is like to fail in order to learn how to succeed. It means we need to learn about our imperfections before we can develop our talents.

Likewise, it means that we need to sift through our failures and look for the seeds of success, so we can cultivate them. It also means that we need to sift through our imperfections to look for the seeds of our talents and develop them.

All The Good Things In Our Life And The Bad Things Are Blessings

For the reasons illustrated above, we should embrace the negative / bad things in our life just as much as we embrace the positive / good ones.

It’s easy for us to embrace our positive traits, but it’s not always easy to embrace our negative ones. However, you need to remember that as you embrace your negative traits, you are doing so to learn from them, not to feed upon them. Your goal is to learn how to be positive as a result of having examined the negative. It is NOT to embrace the negative and embark upon a downward spiral.

One person who counts his blessings is Dr. John Blangero of San Antonio, Texas. John is a geneticist with a very interesting background. In the video below, he talks about his early family life and gives thanks to his mother for helping make him into the person he is today.

Dr. John Blangero is one of the persons who will be featured in my upcoming book:

If you want to view that portion of the interview, click on the image below.