Achieve deep satisfaction with your life

They asked me, what is success? 

My instant response was “A feeling of deep satisfaction with where I am and who I am in the world today.” 



This answer allows us to take a step back and invite a definition which can meet the infinite combinations of choices and preferences that the human race brings forth. 

One man’s resting on laurels is another’s deep satisfaction. Settling for less in the eye of one is the top achievement for another. The measurement only being validated by the worth of the measuring stick. 

“How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?” Logan P. Smith

As we are presented with the multitude of measuring sticks we are at the same time presented with a multitude of opinions on these measurements. Others try to sway us: stating that theirs is the better measurement to apply to our life in order to measure success accurately.

Accurately? REALLY??

“Living someone else’s dream will always kill the soul and erode the spirit.” 
~Tania Johansen

So tell me…

What is the measuring stick you use for measuring success? Is it your own? Did you borrow it from another? Perhaps you inherited it from someone?

Another thing to consider would be time it takes us to achieve success.
It takes only a few minutes to make a cup of coffee. It takes a few hours to knit a sweater, a few days to paint a painting. It takes a couple of years to graduate from college, some more for a masters or a doctorate degree. It takes more than 20 years to raise a child or build a franchise emporium. 

“I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.”
~Jonathan Winters

With infinite variety of human nature and preferences there is an infinite variety of definitions of success. 
The ultimate challenge for the human race is not to come up with a uniform definition of success but to find within ourselves the courage, acceptance and love that will allow us to respect the differences between us. 

Think about your definition of success. How did you come up with it? Where did your core beliefs about success come from? How old were you when you started thinking this way? Have you gone through a process of deconstruction of your values and beliefs in order to update your blueprint of success?

Following other people’s opinions puts us in an endless loop of trying to please others at the cost of our own happiness. It is a trust issue: When do we trust ourselves enough that the opinions of others become mere suggestions instead of a place where we always fall short? It is this same internal versus external divide that causes us to question our own version of what we consider success.

“You can be fully satisfied with where you are, understand that you’re eternally evolving. When you get into that place of feeling appreciation of where you are and of who you are, and appreciation of what you are, and you accept that you are a never-ending, always unfolding Being, then you can stand in that delicate balance of being optimistic about what is to come, without being unhappy about where you stand.” 
~Abraham-Hicks,