Inspiring Stories » Mine Is A Total Success Story
Happiness and Personal Growth
Dear Bears,
Thank you for The Option Institute and
for you and the
staff!!!!! The Grand
Summer Sequence
(formerly L.T.D.) was a wonderful loving, learning experience for me.
Where to start? My
life is so different today from “POST” (Pre-Optimal
Self-Trust). When I came to Optimal Self-Trust, I
came wanting to overcome years of depression and anxiety. I came hating my job and earning very little
money. I came as the victim of the
circumstances of my life – years of incest by my father, a childhood of
verbal
and physical abuse by both parents, and continuous rages by my
alcoholic
father. I had been married and divorced
twice and three of my four children weren’t speaking to me (that was
the
hardest part of my life).
I was believing that, in spite of
information to the
contrary, there must be something I should be doing to change the
situation
with my children, so I could be happy.
I had a dialogue with you that first
Monday night and
changed some beliefs about myself and my children. In
Tuesday’s class, I decided on the name
“Open.” I wanted to be open to whatever
new ideas were presented, no matter how illogical they seemed, and I
wanted to open
myself up to the teachers and the class. I kept
hearing ideas that made little sense to me, and kept
reminding
myself to be open to them; just because I hadn’t heard them before,
didn’t
necessarily make them invalid.
I took the ideas home and tried them on. The one I reminded myself of the most was “I
can make it up the way I want it.” I
played with the ideas, listened to some of your tapes and reread your
books. Also, my housemate and I talked
and talked about The Option Process®
concepts.
I came back to Empowering
Yourself, and kept
changing my beliefs. I bought The
Option Process 12 Lecture Series
on CD and listened
to it over and over (and over). I
doubled my income that first year and had fun doing it!!!
I went from hating my job to having fun at
work every day. Selling real estate is
listed as one of the most stressful jobs in our society, and it is now
virtually stress-free for me. If I feel
any stress, I am aware that I have created it.
I have saturated my mind and my life
with The
Option Process concepts, and have kept changing unempowering
beliefs into
empowering beliefs. I am now so aware
that this moment is the only one there is, and I have the power to
choose what
I want to do in it and how I want to feel in it. Happiness
is totally a choice – and it is my
choice everyday now.
I have stayed Open – open to the ideas and
concepts, and
have kept trying them on. I have learned
how not to be so concerned about what others think of me, and to stop
measuring
myself up to others. I can just choose
happiness anytime, anyplace, and always have a great day.
I was so joyful upon my return home about my
new beliefs that I did a home study class with some of my friends so
they could
learn the ideas also. I had great fun
doing it, and learned so much myself also. I
have filled my life with more and more people who relate to The
Option Process concepts.
I am more open to myself and my
feelings, and open to taking
in love from others. Even though I
always saw you as totally loving, I didn’t take it in as personally for
me
until the last two weeks of the summer programs (Grand
Summer Sequence). I know the
change was not in you, it was in
me.
Knowing that I can trust myself and God
moment-to-moment,
day-to-day, month-to-month and year-to-year is a self-trust that I have
never
felt before. I am relaxed in myself and my
interactions with other people.
Mine is a total
success story! I now know I have
total charge of my life, my feelings and behaviors. I
can turn any unhappiness or distress around
and choose happiness at anytime in every moment. Thank
you for playing with us in a way that
led me to take charge of my beliefs. I
have a great day every day, and it keeps getting better and better as I
learn
more about myself, and allow myself to go toward any discomfort, feel
it, let
it go, and choose to be present and happy.
I am so happy for this gift, and am
spreading my happiness
around everywhere I go!
Love,
Jackie McCullough, Real Estate Broker, New York
