"Striving For Success"

My Horoscope (LEO) Reads:

Put everything you've got into your future.  

Both personal and professional achievement can be made.  

A change of scenery or planning your next trip will motivate you to work hard, play hard and strive to live life to the fullest.

THEORY

First it tells me put everything I've got into my future. Change my scenery, plan a trip, because it will motivate me to work hard.

Play hard and "Strive to live to the fullest."

I agree with every statement, Except for encouraging one to Strive for Success.

To Strive- defines exert strenuous efforts: Labor. To struggle against. Contend.

If any of you are striving towards success, I suggest you stop.

Why?

The self-focused person strives continually for greater and greater success, more and more wealth, more and more fame, more and more power.

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The God-focused and spiritually mature person is freed from striving. He lives in a steady state of confidence-confidence in God's power and presence, confidence born of relationship with God-while at the same time living in the hope of greater and greater things that God will unfold and reveal and bestow.

Ethel Robertson