Realize what you already do

Success is grounded in your own understanding of your perception and values. As you evolve to willingly give up or change many values you thought you had, you will grow to acknowledge some of your beliefs were misguided. You slowly remove your own smokescreen. You come to realize you hinder success, you create it, you are it.

For example, you may be a person who always thought you were an individual of principle and that your views would guide the evolution of your whole life. What you said here isn't entirely wrong. However, to admit assumptions about what you see as 'right and wrong,' 'acceptable or unacceptable' or 'desirable and undesirable' don't change, is a way of postponing your own sense of success.  Did you know that?

Consider that somewhere in your past, you might have adamantly said that you wouldn't do something you knew someone else did. Your position was a judgement, based on how you saw yourself and the world at that time. Years later, you may have decided to do precisely what that person did, because you saw your life differently and you felt ready to evolve and change. That change of heart wouldn't mean your original view was wrong.  In fact, it was appropriate for you at that period. Its unfair to judge your lack of a sense of success today on yesterday's decisions. Everything we do is part of a process to shape our own attitude.

I know a farmer's daughter convinced from childhood she would grow up to become a farmer's wife. She felt happy in the country and chose to learn as much as she could about farms. When her neighbour's daughter grew and moved to the city, the girl sensed she could never do such a thing to her parents, or abandon her country life. Yet, over time, as her self-awareness grew, she decided to attend university away. She became a large animal veternarian and now works on farms throughout her home state. Her view of a desirable life evolved and her decisions caught up.

We each experience different kinds of success exactly where we are. As we choose to grow and change our minds about things, we acknowledge that somewhere deep inside what we knew what we were doing before wasn't quite right. Yet, our past is necessary to understand who we are in the present. In your heart, you recognize that change is inevitable, but your choices in life may initially resist what you seek because you desire to learn in body, mind and soul. All parts of you do not perceive and understand success in the same ways.

Success for the physical body may be defined by doing what it takes to survive where you are, to get enough food, water, shelter and to experience pleasure.  Success for the soul may involve taking steps to learn and helping you come to better know your deepest self. The soul doesn't require what the physical body requires. Your mind defines success by its own experience, sense of time and space. Each part of you abides in the realm of the relative. You may sense a disconnect between achieving success in different parts of you. Success is also achieved in just being here now.