On Success
The world will tell you success is achieving what you set out to do. It will tell you success is winning, that finding recognition and/or prosperity are essential ingredients in any success. All or some of the above are usually by-products of success, but they are not success.
The conventional notion of success is concerned with the outcome of what you do. Some may say success is a combination of hard work and luck, or determination and talent, or being in the right place at the right time. While any of these may be determinants of success, they are not its essence. What the world doesn’t tell you - is that you cannot become successful. You can only be successful.
Don’t let a mad world tell you that success is anything other than a successful present moment. And what is that? There is a sense of quality in what you do, even in most simple actions. Quality implies care and attention, which comes from awareness. Quality requires your presence.
Let’s say a businessperson after two years of intense stress and strain finally manages to come out with a product or service that sells well and makes money. Success? In conventional terms, yes. In reality, he spent two years polluting his body as well as the earth with negative energy, making himself and everyone around him miserable, and affected many others who he never met. The unconscious assumptions behind all such actions is the ends justifies the means.
Be present and do your very best in every moment and action you do. The next moment will work out itself.
It’s all about HOW you do something.
