What is Real Success?

While this question is impossible to answer on a general basis, by practicing Caycedian Sophrology, we can all find our very own answers. However, through my experience, I have more often encountered people who made an initial declaration and later discovered that they were far off.

Many people make the mistake of thinking that success means, to be rich, well known, intelligent, married, a parent, look chic, collect diplomas etc... But I will say the source of man's success is; to know who we are; our needs/limits and how we can transform our potentials into capacities. This is the bottomless well that we can always draw from, in every case scenario.

We are always looking for approval, appreciation, recognition, respect and most of all love, from the outside. But, if we inverse the process and look for all these things from the inside, I can assure you that we will not be disappointed. We will find everything that we desire and deserve.

Who can ever be in a better place than our own person, to know and to supply each one of us with the correct dose of what we really need? Who has always been there, that we can indefinitely rely on? It is the love and care that we give to ourselves is the component that shows us how we can do so for others.

When we learn that our best friend and life long companion is no other than the self, the one who entered and will depart from the world in the same state; with no belongings it may trigger another mindset.

We are all here for a certain length of time, all on probation. Everything/everyone that is given to us are only borrowed, for a limited time. And what do we each choose to do in this time?

How many of us can answer this question with a clear consciousness? What are we here for? I can not answer it for anyone else. But, at least I can say this:

Seeking to resemble someone else
Favouring material gain
Carrying around emotional baggage
Not making the most of the present moment
Not giving priority to love, peace & affection
Being selfish
Turning our backs on who we are

Make every moment that we are given a waste of time.

Deep down we all know that the only thing that makes our lifespan worthy is to be able to make a positive difference. Our true purpose consists in leaving this world a little bit better than it was when we arrived. The great challenge is to leave behind a loving trace, thanks to our individual existence. And this can only be done through love; this is to have truly succeeded.