When you look outside yourself there are all kinds of people in your orbit. There are people who you might think are more successful than you, or there are people who don’t seem to be doing so well.
This is the trap of otherness and separateness, as we fail to see that we are actually one. We are all variations on a theme that emanates from the source.
Rather than see things in terms of binary on/off (rich vs. poor), we need to remove that circuit entirely.
It’s safe to say that we cannot find out what it means to be successful simply by looking at other people’s achievements.
Sure, this process might offer some clues as to what we value in life, but it’s not the answer.
The answer is that the definition of success is completely internal. As the corny but appropriate quote says, “Happiness is an inside job”.
It is very hard to connect with this idea when you are working in the rat race. When you are panicking to make ends meet or desperate for some attention.
Get a head start on the world and carve out some time for yourself in the morning to connect with what the idea of success means to you.
At the end of the day, reflect on how this day lined up with your definition that you continue to think about every morning.
When I say that something is internal, that is code for that which can only be accessed in a state that we now call mindfulness. Yet you don’t have to think of it with that language specifically, and you don’t have to meditate to achieve this state.
You just have to be content with how things are, and who you are, right now in this moment.
Instead of trying to bend the universe in your favour, you accept the way things are, and you move with the waves.
Love this Elliot! Mindset is everything. Xoxo