What Is True Success

Q: What do true success and power mean?

A: I believe that success has many different definitions for everyone. Each individual has many different values and needs.

Marriage might be a success for one and misery for another.

A Six-figure income can represent success for one and turning into an addiction for another. Beauty can be exciting for some, and an eating disorder for another.

I have seen it all in my years of practice. So it is quite individualized. It’s important to define what success means to you. It’s important to view success as an undertaking driven by a healthy conscious, self-motivation, and a desire to improve yourself and be of service to others, regardless of what your job is and what you do to make a living.

Success is when you give your all, then let go of the results. Many teachers know that if you have never met failure (I prefer to call it lessons) you have never succeeded. While some view failure as a blow to your ego, learning to cope with it successfully can open your heart to greater self-acceptance and not become hopeless or cynical.

Success is a sense of the sacred so that your ego won’t be seduced by it. It must reflect on how you choose to deal with it in all aspects of living. With regard to power, I view it as strength, your strength to embrace challenges and change.

Your power comes from drawing from your inner spiritual muscles rather than simply getting what your ego wants. Power has different levels. It has to do with how you view yourself on many levels; body, mind, spirit, financial, relationships, work, aging, and death.

It’s important to addressall of these aspects of yourself and ask yourself if you are just enough as you are. There are those who use the Serenity Prayer as a way to reclaim their power when they are worried, stressed, feeling powerless.

If you are hopeful but not fixated, you are in your own power. Be proud of who you are, not just what you have. Appreciate who you are and the value of the love you offer to yourself and others. Embody good, do good things in the unique sphere of your life.

When you are kind and gracious to others, it will all come back to you tenfold.