As a law of attraction coach to spiritual business owners, I often have  new clients who no longer trust the universe. Instead, they rely on their own intellect, hard work and willpower.

What’s the result? Often, their lives and businesses are a mess! (As they would be the first to admit.) They’re exhausted. They aren’t enjoying life. And they’re going nowhere.

Why is it that some entrepreneurs find great success using their intellect, willpower and hard work – while others find disappointment?

Not an easy question to answer. But here goes…

What if not everyone is on the planet to explore a spiritual path to success?

If you’re not called to a soul-full way of working,  you may very well find success through hard work and mental focus alone.  Or through luck, inheritance or marriage to a wealthy partner.  Anything goes in this free will universe.

By the way…having coached clients with trust funds and multi-millionaire spouses, I can tell you: there’s nothing to envy.

But let’s get back to your path as a spiritual entrepreneur.

Many of us alive at this time  seek success as an outcome of studying and living spiritual laws. If you’re reading this post, you’re likely to be on the path of success through spiritual understanding.

When you have a commitment, from the soul level, to explore and experience the spiritual underpinnings of success, so that you discover a 100% reliable way to create success under any and all circumstances, then personal intellect, sheer willpower and hard work alone probably WON’T work for you.

In earlier times, hard work often was the only path to success. Think of life in the Middle Ages – no one had it easy.

But we spiritual entrepreneurs today know in our hearts that there must be an easier, more graceful way. We’re here to uncover the way for ourselves – and model it to others.

If it takes us a few tries and disappointments, that’s the entire point of the adventure.

Call it The Way of the Spiritual Pioneer. We’re forging an entirely new model of work. It takes persistence, creativity – and spiritual commitment.

If the path of hard work has turned into a dead end for you, let go of it for the moment.

Re-connect with spirit and your inner guidance.  Accept that you are here to discover a kinder path to success. Forgive yourself for trying so very hard for so very long and having so little to show for it.

Then: get back on your true path.

The #1 task you have as a spiritual entrepreneur, regardless of the business you’re in, is to stay connected to spirit. Everything else flows from that – and without it, nothing much flows at all.

The universe flows abundant success to all of us – whether we’re on the path of back-breaking  hard work or the path of expanded  spiritual understanding. Or any other  path – there’s no one right way to succeed.

But you have to be true to the success path in your heart, in order for it to deliver results.

Know that if you aren’t experiencing success, you’ve temporarily gotten off track. It’s time to put your trust and faith back in spirit – instead of trying to do it all yourself.

Let these words from Marianne Williamson comfort you: “When we stop trying to control events they fall into a natural order,  an order that works… and…We learn to trust that the power that holds galaxies together can handle the circumstance of our relatively little lives.”