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In my survey question I asked what is the most important key to success, but maybe we should start by defining success. As a life coach, I run across many different pictures of success as I talk with clients. It can mean finding a job that "fits." To some people it's all about getting through college. To others it means achieving financial independence. But underlying all the variations on our picture of success, there is one factor that most of us don't even think about very often.
It is that sense of fulfillment and inner peace that we hope to attain after we reach our goals.What if we could have that NOW, even before we get all the external pieces lined up perfectly? You guessed it. We can!
In fact, finding that feeling of inner peace and appreciation for what is already in our experience is one of the keys to achieving our goals. Most of the time we have it all backwards. We make ourselves miserable, work really hard, struggle, scrimp, and wear ourselves out trying to reach goals that we think will eventually bring us the peace, joy, and satisfaction that we are missing. In so doing, we actually cut ourselves off from the experience we seek to attain through our striving.
Fortunately, wise teachers have always offered solutions to our dilemma. In modern times, Abraham-Hicks teachings expound on the Law of Attraction,
Eckhart Tolle provides insight into the power of living in the moment, and countless others provide us with a
smorgasbord of insight about how to find peace and joy. We can read endless books and fill our minds with ideas about how to be happy, but the fact is that no mind will ever be content.
It is the job of the mind to sort, categorize, compare, and desire more, but the mind cannot find the peace, joy, and success we really want to experience.True success is beyond mind. It has nothing to do with how much money you make, or how big your house is, or how many friends you have. It cannot be measured by any external means. Success is that feeling of contentment and fulfillment that comes with knowing that this moment is full of wonder and you are part of that wonder.
In order to "get there," you simply have to Be Here.
In the perfection of this moment - this moment - this moment - and on into infinity - there is the peace, bliss, and fulfillment we naturally seek, yet so often miss in our eagerness to find more. When we stop to simply watch the mind jump through its hoops, and feel our breath and our rushing energy, and just observe what is all around us without mental comment, an awareness expands within us that I can only call peace. A joyful awakening takes place, and in that awakening, we find that we are swept into the flow of All That Is, humming in harmony with nature and our deepest life purpose.
There is no greater success.
And the amazing thing is that once we find that inner flow and connection with our life purpose, the external pieces of our lives start falling into place, too. Our health improves, we have more energy, more money starts coming in, we find our ideal career, and there is more love in our lives. Dreams start coming true. Life takes on a whole new dimension of joy and appreciation. And, as Abraham says, "the better it gets, the better it gets."
