But what is ‘success’? What makes you successful, and
what makes you a ‘failure’?
To answer this question, let’s first take a look at
our world. Our societies are completely focused on our five senses of seeing,
hearing, tasting, touching and smelling. Our five senses are constantly
stimulated. They are enticed and exploited all the time.
It is therefore no surprise that we tend to focus our
minds on materialism 24 hours per day. We tend to focus all the time on big
cars, big houses, lots of money in the bank, and so on.
There is nothing wrong with that in itself. Neither does
this mean that being ‘spiritual’ equals being poor and living in a dump. That
doesn’t make sense either. The problem is not with the ‘material’ objects
themselves. I’ll get back to this later.
First, I’d like to know this… So many people want to
‘attract a new car’. But what is it with cars anyway? Somehow the car has
become a symbol of status, of ‘success’. I know a number of people (even some
well-known ones) who are so obsessed with their cars, they even give names to
their car.
A friend of mine had a car and was really proud of it.
He called this car ‘Infinity’. Another friend of mine doesn’t care the least
bit about what kind of car he drives. Still, he needed to buy a car the other
day to be able drive to work. But because he didn’t really care about it, he
simply bought the first set of wheels that he liked even just a bit and of
which he thought the price was right for him. “If I can drive to work and back
with it, then that’s a great car for me”, he thought.
He bought himself a pretty old car to be honest. It
certainly didn’t look that fancy. The other friend would have dubbed it a piece
of junk. But this guy couldn’t care less. In fact, he could see the fun of it.
In response to my other friend who called his car ‘Infinity’, this guy decided
to give his car a name too. He called it ‘Finity’.
I kid you not, this is a true story. What it
illustrates is the relativity of ‘status’ and ‘success’. What one person would
consider being dignified, could be considered by the next person as pathetic.
Like I said, the trap is not with material objects
themselves. These are just frequency patterns anyway. The problem comes when we
see those objects as the ultimate goals and the very symbols of success that
confirm whether we ‘made it’ in life or not.
It is for this reason that many people look to others
to confirm to themselves if they are ‘doing well’ or if they are ‘successful’.
When you don’t succeed in terms of big houses, big cars, big money, you are
often considered as a ‘failure’, and often consider yourself as such.
The whole system thrives on consumption and the
constant expansion of consumption, and the more we consume, the more we are
considered to be ‘successful’. This even leads to many people borrowing more of
what they don’t have and getting in even deeper trouble, simply to provide
themselves the very things that should testify to others of their alleged
‘success’.
So is this the kind of ‘success’ you are looking for?
What if I told you that the real success you are
looking for is not having all kinds of material stuff, but is actually called
‘happiness’?
After all, why would you want a lot of money, or a big
house, or a big car? Why would you want others to approve of you? In the end
it all comes down to a desire for a sense of security and happiness, and being
able to live life on your own terms. The quest ends when you’re happy and
fulfilled.
But when are you happy and fulfilled?
Here’s a hint from what a wise man once said:
“Money and fame do not happiness make.”
Don’t get me wrong. There is nothing wrong with having
a lot of money, or being well-known, or having big cars and big houses. These
are all thought fields and are just experience. The problem is that so many
people get absorbed in pursuing the material ‘dream’ that they forget about why
they are doing that in the first place.
I believe it was John Harricharan who said this:
“Most people are so busy trying to make a living, they
forget to make a life.”
He’s right. Most people are ‘human doings’ instead of
‘human beings’.
The funny thing is that the greatest payoff from
trying to get what you want through working with the ‘Law of Attraction’ comes
from a state of being. It is a state of happiness, contentment and
love and gratitude for what IS that gets you what you truly want.
At any rate, the greatest payoff from your attraction
efforts does certainly not come from an obsession with ever more material stuff
in the merry-go-round that gets faster by the day, for the sole reason to seek
approval and confirmation of your ‘success’ from others, in order to compensate
for a lack of self-esteem that is the cause of this obsession to begin with.
A sense of security, self-esteem and ‘success’ is
found within yourself, not outside.
And the funny thing is that once you give up the
obsession with possession and finally acknowledge your true self, the person
who you really are deep inside, you seem to manifest what you want much more
easily.
When that happens, you can enjoy all kinds of material
stuff as much as you like, if that’s what you choose. You can choose to have a
big car if you like. You can choose to live in a big house if that’s what you
want.
The difference is that you won’t be controlled by the
never-ending pursuit of these things. You won’t be ‘on the path to happiness
and success’ anymore. You would just BE happy instead, and from there you will allow
things to manifest instead of chasing them forever. It’s a small difference in
perception, but with profound effects.
It is then that you will start to live life, instead
of life living you.
So what is ‘success’?
Success, my friend, is what you define it to
be.
Now go manifest your success, whatever that is
for you!
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Nicholas
P. Kidd and Henk J.M. Schram are the instigators of the alleged ‘Great
Revolution’, which provides the members with truthful instructions regarding
the universal principles of life.
The
Revolution is receiving increasingly widespread attention for its
straightforward explanations and instructions with regard to complex issues,
which are made understandable for people from all walks of life. In essence,
the true secrets of the ‘Law of Attraction’ and the other ‘Universal Laws’ are
explained in much clearer and practical ways than the 'enigmas wrapped in
riddles' that usually characterize the descriptions of the Law of Attraction
and its application.
More
information on the Great Revolution, on joining and on the ‘universal
principles of life’ (the true ‘Universal
Laws’) can be found at http://www.revolutioniz.com/.
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