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We All Want it but What is it?

Like most things, success is personal. It means different things to different people. My major achievement (running five miles, perhaps) might be a barely-noticeable part of your daily routine. For some people, a new job that provides them with a hundred thousand dollars each year would be financial nirvana. For somebody else, that same job could be a massive drop in salary and therefore, the opposite of success. For the guy recovering from a car accident, walking ten feet might be the biggest achievement of his year. For you, it’s what happens on the way to the fridge.

In your world and mine, things only have the meaning we give them. Success is no different.

A Few Success Facts:

1. Being ‘successful’ doesn’t always equate to being happy.
2. Success doesn’t happen, we create it.
3. Your definition of success will evolve as you do.
4. Looking successful and being successful don’t always go hand in hand.
5. Sometimes, success lives where we least expect it.

A Few Success Suggestions:

1. Consider the goals behind your goals. What’s your motivation for achieving those goals? How do you think it will change your life?
2. Leave your ego out of the goal-setting (success-creating) process.
3. Make time to get clear about your core values and goals. If you can’t define it (success), you probably won’t create it.
4. Pay attention to what your inner wisdom is saying (it knows stuff). Not to be confused with the inner attention-seeking fourteen year-old.
5. The enormity of conformity is ever-present. Don’t waste years trying to achieve someone else’s goals. Think, choose and act for yourself.

Peace.

I find that a lot of people don’t live in the present moment and if they do it is only a small percentage of the time. They often traverse between the past and the future jumping in and out of the present as they go through. This makes sense when you think of time being circular as otherwise you’d never visit the past as it was in the past!

The problem is the less time you spend in the present moment, the less aware you are of what you are creating right now and feeling the joy and spontaneity of life.

Being in the past is problematic as it is always riddled with bad experiences. You don’t often hear people saying great things about their past experiences. A lot of people have painful memories of their childhood, adolescence and early adulthood that they want to try to put past them, but their beliefs have been founded around these bad experiences.

What happens is when a person leaves the present moment to go in the past, they are going back to those old dysfunctional (not to mention untrue) beliefs to check their reality. For example they might see a nice girl at a bar and think maybe I’ll go talk to her but then they instantly go into the past where they say to themselves, she’s out of my league and she’ll just reject me like all the rest. Another example might be that someone wants to go to university but then unconsciously decides they are not smart enough to do it and they should stick to what they know.

The beliefs that we make contact with when we leave the present moment are deeply unconscious and this is why they are so hard to confront and change as most people don’t even realise they are there!

The beliefs you have is what make up the experiences that are around you. This might sound odd but our beliefs are so strong that they end up shining through in situations. You get a job and you are not appreciated so your belief of not being valued is confirmed. However as you have this belief in the first place that is probably what attracted you to the job (subconsciously of course) and why the employer liked you. They weren’t thinking that consciously of course, but remember talking makes up 10% of communication. 10%!! That means 90% of communication comes from body language and energy. So this is what people are reading and it becomes an unconscious agreement, one person saying I agree to allow myself to be undervalued and you agree to undervalue me.

I could give you so many examples of this happening in all areas of life and a popular reaction is often to blame the person doing the other thing. Blame your boss for undervaluing you, your partner for leaving you, for people being rude to you, for friends standing you up and so on rather than looking at what beliefs you have that keep these experiences around you.

Ever notice how the same things don’t happen to everyone around you? Each person has their own little world of beliefs all being replayed in the here and now. When you challenge these beliefs in the present moment by saying why is this happening to me, what is it I think that brings this to me, not only does it keep you in the present moment, but it puts a stop on the past and future jumping. When you are in the present moment you are fully alive and can embrace life.

If you want to live in the present more and change or challenge some beliefs let us know.

What would YOU change if you could?

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