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Self-Aggrandizement (Originally Published 12/4/2020)


Many of my blogs are the result of one word that wakes me up, usually around four o’clock in the morning, and won’t leave my mental hard drive until I sit down and write about it.  This morning’s word was self-aggrandizement. 


No greater example exists of the spoils of self-aggrandizement other than President Trump.  Many say Trump lost the election to Covid – 19.  Any leader would have been replaced after all the negative media hype about Trump’s handling of it.  Covid – 19 is going to have its way with the world regardless of what any leader does.  God’s Will is God’s Will. 


Others said Trump’s goal to “drain the swamp” did him in as the “swamp” figured out how to use the media and court system to protect their future.  I say self-aggrandizement did Trump in, and self-aggrandizement can do anyone in and can further cause one to “go backwards” in the journey we call life. 


Self-aggrandizement is defined as exaggerating one’s own importance or power, an act of pride or boasting.  If there is anything Republicans and Democrats alike can take from the last four years, it is to learn that pride – one of the seven deadly sins, can take one down – even if you’re the President of the United States. 


I believe that Trump will go down in the history books as a great President.  Fifty years from now, historians will look back and see the many positive trickle-down effects Trump’s tenure produced.  For Harry S. Truman, it was the atomic bomb.  A terrible event, yet would we all be speaking Japanese today if he didn’t do something to stop Japan’s desire to take over the world?  Would the United States have become the Union and the Confederacy if Lincoln had not decided to take part in the Civil War?  Would we all be driving on backcountry roads if Dwight Eisenhower had not established the Interstate Highway System? 


Aside from the shame Richard Nixon took from his resignation, history rarely reports a president’s idiosyncratic quirks or oddities such as James Monroe’s hot temper or Abraham Lincoln’s trash-talking about those that opposed him. 


We can always observe things about others that, with the right mindset, can help transform our own lives.  Trump’s self-aggrandizement is just that. 


Trump was hung by his own tongue.  Even loyal republicans will tell you that if he had just shut his mouth, he would have won reelection.  So what can we learn from Trump’s self-aggrandizement?


Earth is a planet of contrasting events that are constantly seeking their balance.  A planet where each activity is dependent upon the other.  A world fueled by yin (female) and yang (masculine).


Self-aggrandizement is a testosterone-filled, highly masculine, yang activity that does not allow time to let one’s accomplishments speak for themselves.  Silence, a wildly known yin or feminine activity, is the balancing act to self-aggrandizement.  Truth always reveals itself in the silence. 


We all self-aggrandize.  Maybe not as loudly or with such vivacity as Trump, but we do it.  Let’s take the example of Trump’s defeat and look into our own world.  Are we bragging or taking credit for the things we did or do.  Weren’t those accomplishments the result of talents we were bequeathed at birth?  Do we thank our parents at the least for the special combination of DNA we received on their behalf?


Want to dwell more in the yin (feminine) energy of silence?  Stop taking personal credit for the talents you were blessed with to make our world a more enjoyable, art-filled, light-filled world.  Give acknowledgment to those around you who made all those accomplishments possible.  That should eradicate any self–aggrandizement you were thinking about spewing. 


Self-aggrandizement is poison.  Take a lesson from Donald J. Trump on that.  It just goes to show even presidents have a thing or two to learn. 

 

Affirmation:  I dwell in the silence that I may hear Soul’s guidance. 

“I'm Catherine Wilcox, working to help others see that God is in all things, all the time, through conscious change and self-healing.”

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