No such thing as an end

Success is defined by what you desire to experience.  Its not simply what you foresee happening somewhere down the track.  It is occurring now and has been happening throughout your life.  Each decision you make will influence the evolution and depth of experience,  what you grasp and savor, as well as experiences that may traumatize and change you in seemingly undesirable ways.  You're somewhere if that's what you believe.  You're nowhere if you feel that too.  Neither idea represents success or failure, but rather a limited view of where you are in time and space. 

As you develop abilities to differentiate among experiences, your value judgment will try to convince you that, "you aren't really successful," or, "you aren't as successful as you could be" or, that, "your last success was short-lived."  What if you took steps to redefine success completely? 

Think a minute, as if success as an experience wasn't the win-lose scenario you were taught. What if success was happening to you always?  In this case, it wouldn't be something that motivated you as much as reassured you to continue living and learning wherever you are.  It wouldn't be a reason to compete with or injure others, but impetus to distance yourself from what you thought triumph was. Consider a minute that what you have always thought about success was a misconception.   

Many people will isolate fixed ideas of success, achieve or not achieve them, and then, move on to pursue other ideas of success, which they may or may not realize.  Your own expectations of success influence emotional highs and lows.  You may forget success isn't simply a destination, isn't really a person to cling to, isn't a trophy to be given back when you enter next year's annual race. 

What would happen if you began to realize the things you perceive and believe are not what they seem at all?  Your options would expand exponentially.  A sense of success would have no end.  Each choice would be like a new thread to be woven into your growing web of life.  You would no longer have reason to reprimand yourself for what you aren't doing. You could accept yourself more as you are.