Where does it begin and end?

When you reflect on your life, what causes you to feel successful? Is it the way you have gotten the job you have? Is it the nature of your relationships? Is it something else you've earned? Is it the state of your health and well-being? Maybe its a combination.

If you think of success like a circle, you may begin to believe that everything you think and feel is connected to your sense of success. Some people assume success is a result or, success is a process. Have you ever felt "in between" successes or like success is 'out-of-reach?'  What if success is intrinsic, immeasurable and differing than your current view?

What if you came to believe that success is partly a matter of learning to notice changes within yourself? To recognize what you are and what you're not, to discern how you feel and when you're experiencing something you've never experienced before.  As you evolve to observe yourself, you will detect meaningful energy and ideas you had missed before.

Human beings tend to be conditioned to assume success is a destination. Yet, success comes in different forms based on your perception, aspirations and priorities. It doesn't have to seem like it ends. Whenever you choose, you can believe you are successful as you are.  It doesn't matter where you are, who you know or, what you've done (or not).

How can you be certain?

What is it that convinces you that you're anywhere other than where you're meant to be? If you do conclude you are where you need to be right now, at this moment, then would you not concede this is a view of success? Would you not sense your own milestone?

Human beings are conditioned to think that success is represented by something other than what they already have or where they are. Why do you perpetuate your own sense of dissatisfaction? It may be unconscious and surprising, but you do it, and quite often.

You may ask, how can you be certain you cause your own dissatisfaction? How can you be certain you create your view of success? Every thought begins in your mind like a seed you would plant in the ground.  You water and nourish it with feelings to make it grow.

If you decide to examine your beliefs, then you realize you can convince yourself of anything. You can decide all is well or,  buy into any illusion you create and perpetuate.  You always have hidden reasons for choosing to be certain or not. Do you sense it now?

8 Principles to get you where you're going

Whatever your conditions, certain principles would enable you to effectively adapt.  Regardless of your view of success, these ideas will assist you to get where you're going:  

1) Recognize you decide when and where you will work through something.  Whatever is on your mind requires attention.  It may involve other people or factors outside yourself.  Choose to deal with things when you're detached and nonemotional.

2) Re-evaluate your focus and priorities.  The attitudes of people around you may affect you.  Remember, your thoughts are always in your control.   You have power to decide what feelings and relations are worth letting go if they don't serve your growth.

3) Accept the consequences of your choices.  Accountability is key.  Indecisiveness isn't an option.  If you're unwilling to have faith and support your decisions, or, if you choose to wallow in regret, its not only harder to see forward, you block your progress.

4) Live each moment to the fullest.  This requires you to learn to focus on the 'here and now.'  Make the best of where you are and the life you are living.  What somebody else somewhere else is or isn't doing doesn't matter.  You're your point of reference.

5) Trust your intuition.  To train yourself to listen to your inner voice may require unlearning other conditioning.  Its 'par for the course.'  In order to nurture faith in yourself, you have to figure out who you are and the implications.  Ready, get set, go!

6) Take the time you need.  Remind yourself time is a human invention and you also decide how to perceive it.  If you permit fear of not having enough, you may rush and behave in ways that do not work in your inteerest.  Be aware of the element of time.

7) Value delegation.  You need not always be at the centre of the action or focus of attention.  Part of getting where you're going means you need to value how you can learn from and share tasks with others.  You can play a vital role behind the scenes too.

8) Attune to your moods.  How you think and feel isn't always in your best interest.  As you raise awareness about your moods, you gain insight into yourself.  That empowers you to open your senses, and view situations with greater foresight and objectivity.

5 Lessons from my own life experience

We each have a series of life stories that help us explain why we are who we are.  We think, make choices, feel and interpret everything that happens within and around us.  I invite you to share your lessons about personal success. Here are 5 lessons from my life: 

1) Those people who seem to cause you the most discomfort offer your greatest lessons.

2) Anything that evokes our judgment reveals the source of our fear-based emotions.

3) Beliefs are as as you choose. (Duality--good/bad; right/wrong, doesn't really exist).

4) To accept the truth of our perception means accepting responsibility as co-creator.

5) Views at a given moment stem from insight into love, forgiveness & self-acceptance.

Sort out what matters most

If you've ever felt confused about the nature of success in your life, then you would benefit from sorting out what matters most.   Life experience teaches you that some of your most meaningful changes are difficult to measure.  Yet, you discern they can be experienced.  It is life experience which clarifies your values when you are ready to see.

Success need not be defined by words like, "physical," "material," "spiritual" or "metaphysical."  Experience has a voice and language of its own that is profoundly useful, even healing.  It is all about a journey of learning to listen to your inner voice and modes of communication not easily explained to anyone who hasn't sensed something similar.

A sense of progress will emerge as you grasp that you already work on a deeper level of intuition than you realize.  Its not about somewhere you're not, or doing something you're not doing.  Its about deciding to experience more love and joy where you are.  You possess powerful tools to transform.  It begins with how you view yourself, and evolves based on how you consciously choose to channel your energy.   Why hold back?