What is the difference between our ego and our sacred self?
The debate of ‘quality behavior’ can throw a lot of different opinions. Over time, we’ve learned to take steps to try to keep our ego in check and be more focused about the crowd that needs help. This has brought us much better results.
Over time, as we were trying to bring our sales back and bring up natural search engine rankings, we wanted to quit so many times. Dropping rank in Google and loosing 90+% of your sales can be a real blow to your ego. When things go wrong, our first instinct is to think ‘Is there something wrong with me?‘
That’s our ego talking, and needs to be put in check before we can focus on what’s important and fix the problem. One of the many things we’ve learned is to enjoy failure to some degree because we’ll learn far more from our failures then we will from our successes.
This is just one of the many lessons we’ve learned while trying to stay level headed while we build traffic and search engine rankings for you.
Here are the basic comparisons between Ego and our Sacrid Self.
Our children focus on ego constantly. But helping our children grow to become better people is better then feeding that ego. Helping others is the best thing we can do while we’re alive.
That darn ego often gets in the way of what’s important, which is where can we take the customer and what can we do to better help the customer with there journey to where they want to be?
If you read the below comparisons, I’m sure you can think of a lot of scenarios where we made the right choice (in helping others) vs. the wrong but more tempting choice (focusing on ourselves)
I hope this stuff doesn’t come off as ‘preachy’. But this was a key lesson for us for ‘getting our head in the right place’ to be able to execute our type of work successfully for you. Hopefully one of our visitors will get some value out of this as well. If you do, please feel free to share or like us using an icon at the bottom of the page. Thank you!
Ego vs. Sacred Self
Ego is instant gratification.
Our sacred self knows how to delay gratification.
Ego tells the same adverse story over and over.
Our sacred self finds lessons in others’ stories.
Ego judges others for their faults or flaws.
Our sacred self doesn’t judge.
Ego envies the successes of other people.
Our sacred self rejoices with the success of others and feels their joy fully.
Ego justifies not going to the gym because they “already worked hard all week.”
Our sacred self honors the promises we made to ourselves, despite being tired.
Ego has a be right and will prove a point.
Our sacred self is not attached to any point of view and can always see another viewpoint.
Ego loses momentum because it is not getting the results it wants right away.
Our sacred self is patient and knows there is a season for everything.
Ego treats people with disrespect.
Our sacred self treats people as beloved members of our human family.
Ego seeks to get love and acceptance.
Our sacred self seeks to give love and acceptance.
Ego is self centered.
Our sacred self is other centered.
Ego is threatened by growth and change.
Our sacred self relishes change and new experiences.
Ego has to get even.
Our sacred self knows to let it go.
Ego does not like losing.
Our sacred self is happy with the outcome, win or lose, and the lesson it brings.
Ego likes to fight.
Our sacred self loves to heal.
Ego thinks everyone is talking about it.
Our sacred self trusts in the good of all people.
Ego is a victim.
Our sacred self values the lesson in every experience, even those that cause us harm.
Ego makes excuses for anything and everything.
Our sacred self takes responsibility for our own actions.
Ego lives in the past.
Our sacred self lives in the present and visualizes our beautiful future.
Ego emotionalizes everything without rationality.
Our sacred self lets go of attachment, and the emotions it brings.
Ego loves resentments.
Our sacred self lets go of all resentment, and the emotions it brings.
Ego fears of anything that can be feared.
Our sacred self trusts all that can be trusted.
Ego focuses on getting leaner.
Our sacred self focuses on getting ‘cleaner’ — body, mind and spirit.
Ego loves intimidation.
Our sacred self loves compassion.
Ego loves to hide.
Our sacred self is open and available.
Ego blames.
Our sacred self takes responsibility.
Ego is reactive.
Our sacred self is proactive.
Ego loves comfort zones.
Our sacred self loves frontiers.
Ego loves vanity.
Our sacred self forgets self in service and love of others.
Ego seeks environments that support all of the above.
Our sacred self seeks new horizons and knows that growth can often be painful and realizes this process can be very uncomfortable.
Just ask a caterpillar before they burst out there wings.