Your Heart Is The Key To Your Success
The question is, are you happy?
Ideas about how to be successful constantly bombard us. They are everywhere.
What success looks like, how we can succeed, and why it’s important—it's all about the success that numbers can measure.
How many followers, how much money, how many books, how many people are your friends, or how much do you weigh?
Success by fame. Success according to the size of your house. Success measured.
We see emails, ads, and social media promotions that claim we can achieve success only by following their prescription.
We pay dearly for that kind of success—not just with money, but with our time, which we could spend doing something that brings joy to our hearts and peace to our lives.
If I pay too much attention to the measured idea of success, it drives me crazy. I feel bad about myself because I don’t measure up.
But we all know that measured success is not all it claims to be.
Success cannot be a game of numbers defined by quantity, size, or fame. Success can’t mean my success should look like yours.
We can be the people who don’t think life is a paint-by-numbers kit and don’t color within the lines. We don’t need to take part in the craziness of greed, jealousy, or competition to be the winners.
What is success, then?
What if success was as simple as answering “yes” to “Are you happy?”
What if numbers do not quantify success, but success is experienced within the heart?
What if we didn’t measure our version of a successful life against someone else’s?
In all my years of coaching and consulting, I have never seen one person’s success look like another’s.
However, there is something that is central to all genuine success.
It is the core intent of choosing to do the right thing.
Our intent has to include all creation in our planning. We must live as if everyone is equal—not just say the words, but live the words.
We need to pay attention to our actions and notice what they say about ourselves, our priorities, and our beliefs.
Each of us can follow our own internal rhythm. We can learn to trust the Divine enough to know that It always provides for us and meets our needs.
We see this clearly when we stop measuring what success should look like.
Yes, it takes work. It takes time. But no one can sell us a shortcut.
When we stop tuning into the noise of outward success, we discover what success means to us.
And although success means different things to each of us, we can still walk that path of discovery together as we choose to live within the core of love rather than the shell of fear.
Einstein gave us this guide.
“The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth.”
Kindness. Could there be a more important quality to live by and express?
By listening and looking for it, we will find it everywhere. This could be our focus, rather than protecting ourselves against everyone else.
Examples of kindness abound in the world. What about these two men who stayed behind to care for the senior citizens when their caretakers left them?
Wouldn’t you prefer to hang out with those kinds of people rather than those who measure success and life by numbers?
Before we decide to do anything, let’s ask ourselves, “Is it kind? Is it beautiful? Is it true?”
This way, we will continue walking the path of genuine success—success that can’t be measured but is always known within the heart.
Full quote from Albert Einstein, The World As I See It
“I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves — this critical basis I call the ideal of a pigsty. The ideals that have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. Without the sense of kinship with men of like mind, without the occupation with the objective world, the eternally unattainable in the field of art and scientific endeavors, life would have seemed empty to me. The trite objects of human efforts — possessions, outward success, luxury — have always seemed to me contemptible.”
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