Confidence in Your Own Ability: The 9th Virtue of Maat

 

The ninth virtue of Maat is confidence in your own ability. Without confidence in your own ability, you can never achieve personal and business success. The power of who you are as a person created in the image and likeness of God cannot be unleashed until you believe in yourself. This belief in the self and the self’s ability to succeed is an acknowledgement of the power of God’s DNA at work within you.

 

The true atheist is not the one who disclaims belief in the Deity who created the universe and humankind, but the one who refuses to believe in the self-created by God. To denigrate your own ability is to practice false humility—the attempt to appear humble, when in fact, you are insulting the God who created you.

 

You are what and who you persistently think and believe you are. If you practice seeing yourself and feeling yourself to be successful, that is what you will ultimately become. Confidence in your own ability is the driver of your personal growth and expansion, just as belief that you will fail is the driver of your stagnation..

Confidence in the Power of the Master (Teacher): The 8th Virtue of Maat

The eighth virtue of Maat is confidence in the power of the master (teacher). This virtue is important because you do not know everything there is to know about the business you will choose to begin from scratch or purchase as a franchise or licensee. You must learn the ropes from somebody and you will not learn what you need to know if you have no confidence in the power of the person who is teaching you what you need to know about the business.

 

The virtue that is hiding behind this eighth virtue is that of humility. A prideful person has difficulty acknowledging that anyone knows more than she or he about anything. Consequently, there are many entrepreneurs struggling in business because they refuse to learn from those more experienced than they, or to take their advice.

 

It’s not always pride that can make you leery about having confidence in the power of the master (teacher), sometimes it’s your bad past experience with a so-called teacher who turned out to be incompetent at best or a shyster at worst. That is why you must check out carefully the company or the business you choose to invest in to make sure that the people who will be teaching you the ropes know what they are doing. 

Freedom from Resentment: The Seventh Virtue of Maat

The seventh virtue of Maat is freedom from resentment. It’s amazing how many people are stuck in an undesirable space in life simply because of their resentment toward other people: a parent, a sibling, a former lover, a current colleague or fellow worker, to name just a few. In too many cases, resentment is the excuse unsuccessful people use to justify their failures in life.

 

They love to blame others for what is actually their own inadequacy. They will talk about the father who abandoned them, the mother who didn’t love them, the teacher who discouraged them, the close friend or lover who betrayed them, and on and on.

 

To have freedom from resentment is to be so self-directed that you will not allow any person or circumstance to keep you from attaining the goals you have set for yourself. Freedom from resentment provides you a platform from which you can create, innovate, and focus on your positive future, rather than to stay mired in your troubled past or hurtful present. As a virtuous, highly successful entrepreneur, you will learn that the pure success you earn in your life is far sweeter than any bad feelings you could have harbored or any acts of revenge you could have carried out.

 

The way to gain freedom from resentment is to make yourself grow large enough internally to forgive the people who have wronged, betrayed or otherwise treated you unfairly. Forgiveness is not easy, but it is easier than holding on to resentment, because resentment traps and holds you, while forgiveness sets you free to become all you can be.

 

Along the road to economic prosperity there will be potholes and other rough spots that are designed to discourage and waylay you as you seek after true wealth—wealth that includes financial success. Remember that the Law of Attraction will bring you whatever you focus on in your mind. Don’t waste time and energy on negative thoughts of resentment because they will attract more negative things and people to your life. Forgive those who have wronged you, and the people whom you have wronged will forgive you. 

Evidence of A Call to Spiritual Order: The Sixth Virtue of Maat

The sixth virtue of Maat is evidence of a Call to Spiritual Order. Spiritual Order is when you become fully aware that you cannot live for yourself and family alone: you have a call to destiny that goes beyond your own private sphere of living. You have the obligation and responsibility to live a virtuous life that impacts, influences, and encourages others to do good, live well and to be a blessing to others.

The old adage, “To whom much is given, much is required,” is in play here. Every truly expanded person must be a leader, whether she or he understands that or not. A leader is someone who is followed. People who wish to become personally expanded follow the lead of those they believe to be personally expanded. Because people will be watching you as you develop into a greatly expanded individual, you must be a good example for them to follow.

You cannot afford to be selfish, stingy, or rude if you intend to obtain true personal expansion. You must show love, compassion, empathy, and personal discipline. You cannot live the kind of life that you have seen some rich people live. Your life must have meaning, purpose and Spiritual Order. True wealth and long-term profitability can never reside in a person who lives a dissolute life—a life wasted in self-indulgence and self-absorption.

Be the expanded person who leads others to be good, do good, and have good follow them! Be the person who evidences a Call to Spiritual Order!