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In the spirit of play, life is easy. In the spirit of effort and struggle, life SUCKS!If you believe to be successful other people most love and approve of you or think that what you do (acting, writing, singing, painting, etc) is awesome, they won't.
Take it from me, thinking you need other people to love and approve of you in order for you to be successful is absolutely the stupidest thing you can ever think.
If you try to get people to approve and accept you, as a way to be successful, the best that will happen is that they will think you are as crazy as a looney bird (Look at how many people seeking approval and acceptance on American Idol and America Got Talent fail).
The worst that will happen, seeking other people's approval to be successful, is you will labor in obscurity for years. In other words you will work alone, be unknown and watch your dreams die a slow, painful, agonizing death.. That's what you get when you do what you do for the purpose of seeking other people's approval of you. Life doesn't work that way.
The way life work is that you first must love and approve of yourself. If that takes hating everyone in the world so the only person you have left to love is you, then so be it. Let me explain. If your believe other people are responsible for your success and they do not give you the love, approval and recognition you seek, you will end up hating them anyway. And worse yet, you will end up hating yourself. And once you hate yourself, you will have no creative power left at all to create the life you want.
All great loves begin with self-love and if you don't love yourself fully, your life will suck. And every day you will feel a little bit of your life force being drained out of your body by the people who are using you. You allow people to use you because you think you need their love and approval to create the life you want when, in fact, the only person's love and approval you ever needed was your own.
When you work at loving and approving of yourself by doing those things that make you feel good, you will naturally attract the love and approval of others, You see, when you do what feels good for you to do, you are loving and approval of yourself....and people find that very, very attractive..
As a result, when you are feeling good about yourself, people will want to be around you. They will feel compelled to compliment you. They will be inspired to give you nice things and do nice things for you. Why, Because when you feel good, it makes the people around you feel good too. That's how life works!
Putting other people first, all the time, will put you back at the end of the line..
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