You may have dreamed you exert a degree of influence over your life, and your view of success.  Yet, did you ever realize your hopes do nurture your beliefs?  This process predicts what you'll come to know, who you'll evolve to meet, what you'll choose to create and set out to experience?  Its no coincidence people will tell you that success begins within.  This may not yet have sunk in.

Consider that an individual who defines success based on the money he obtains may only seek out like-minded people.  His beliefs may justify vitually any venture.  If the 'how' or consequences won't matter, then this person could devise ways to obtain lots of money, but he may also find himself in jail for perpetrating criminal acts.  A state of mind can evolve to justify anything in the name of success.  Would morals and ethics come into play in your own version of success?

Consider the terminally ill person who defines success based on nurturing a peaceful mindset toward death.  To ly in a hospital bed waiting for the inevitable is an opportunity to reflect on emotional connections with life and to ponder the value of detachment.  What wisdom would you extract from people and experiences?  How would you find meaning in existence by reframing suffering?

Consider the individual who defines success as something earned through sacrifice.  An athlete may train long and hard to develop endurance and stamina for a big competition.  This person would commit to workouts, diet and psychological preparation, and redefine overall priorities.  Time spent on soem areas of life would mean less or no time left for other people or activities.  What kinds of lifestyle changes are you prepared to make in view of your desired goals?

Consider the person who defines success based on the idea that anything is possible.  This kind of person may push personal limits, take risks to step outside a comfort zone.  Such a person may imagine what success would look and feel like and then, take steps to create desired experiences.  How would you be ready to mkae different choices, from right here, right now? 

Consider the individual who defines succes based on what other people think, say and do.  People you respect or admire may tell you what they did and you may simply adopt their old approaches to life and believe you will do what they did, only your way.  Is what someone else did satisfying enough for you? What are the influences and sources of conditioning of your views?

Consider the person who perceives success as multi-dimensional with many phases at different periods of life.  This kind of person will never be wanting a new kind of success.  S/He will not say "where is success?" or "it's not there yet."  Rather, this person will evolve to see success everywhere.  In which ways do you think events unfold at the perfect time? Do you look past timing? At what point will you be ready to take each experience in as anew facit of your success?