Success

Success . . . What is success?

We spend so much of our lives striving for success. There are many, many books written about success . . . magazines, movies, songs - you name it, it is available. It is like there is an endless supply of resources pertaining to success. Is this because it is presumed that there are more of us seeking success than there are those who have found success?

How do you know you haven't already reached success?

What does success look like? What does it taste like? How does it feel?

Does success not come in all different sizes and shapes? Is success not about exploring your potential? Ought we not be defining success in our own terms?

. . . so, if you are not a failure, then what are you? Do you know what success means to you? Have you ever taken the time to stop and define success for yourself? Chances are, that many of us have never really stopped and looked inward to define success for ourselves.

If you've never defined success for yourself, how can you know when you have reached success? It is sort of like the person that fails to plan, then, do they not plan to fail?

The tragedy in life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach. ~ Benjamin Mays

What would it be worth to you to sit down and look at what success looks like for you?

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. ~ Thomas Edison

Success is yours if you set out to find it

Looking Outward from Within

Within: ( As defined by the American Heritage Dictionary )

1. In or into the inner part; inside.
2. Inside the mind, heart, or soul; inwardly.


Are you comfortable within your own skin? How much time do you expend admiring another? Their success? Their mis-takes? How much time do you spend in judgement?
What if life was a mirror? What if what you saw or what you see in another is only visible to you to because it is within you?

Really, life is a journey . . . a journey in which we travel along a path . . . a path where we spend time gathering information, observing, sharing, judging and forming opinions. Often, we spend so much time looking outward, that we forget or neglect to to look within.

The next time you encounter someone you admire, someone you aspire to be more like, I challenge you to stop and take a moment to tell this person what it is that you admire within them. Share with them that you aspire to be like them and tell them what traits you aspire to be more like. Give of your heart to this person.

Then, I challenge you to receive. Celebrate who you are, for you see, we can not see in someone else what is not already within us!

What do we see in others that we do not see within . . . nothing for life is a mirror.

Seeing within changes one's outer vision. ~ Joseph Chilton Pearce

Every moment is a gift . . . open it!

Have you ever been in the place of resistance?

What you think about, you bring about . . .

The act of resisting . . . resistance.

Mind over matter . . . amazing the matter the mind can so easily create!

If we truly feel and believe that we want something, are deserving of something, then why do we not go after that which we want, that which we deserve? What holds us back?

Most of us have heard about The Secret, if not read the book or seen the movie . . . ought we not be able to create that which we want? Is it not only a matter of putting thought into action? If it really is to be, what is holding us back? What keeps us from action? Could it possibly be the thoughts and beliefs beneath the surface? Who or what is driving the bus?

Every moment, every thought, every action, every mis-take, every person who crosses our path is a gift. It is up to us to open the package and find the gem within. When was the last time you really, truly took the time to check in with yourself and celebrate the joy in your life?

Yesterday is the past. Tomorrow is the future. Today is the present . . . stop, take time to smell the flowers. Tell a loved what they mean to you. Extend a gift of yourself into the world. Be the change you want to see and who knows what might follow . . . celebrate the gifts!

"Wherever you go, go with all your heart" ~ Confucius