You feel positive and joyful when you realize that you are
successful. However, when failure comes to you, you feel defeated. The
definition of success and failure varies from one person to another and
according to the stage of life that you are in. It is important to have success
and failure well defined for yourself, because, based on your definition, you
feel greater or lesser inner wellbeing, happiness and wholeness. There are also
different levels of success and of failure. For example, for some the greatest
success is to be happy and radiant, whatever happens inside or outside. If one
manages to keep happy in the face of failure, for them it is a success. Because
to be happy means that I am connected with my essential worth or inner self, my
being is awake and alive. Failure does not reduce my vitality, my contentment
levels. The greater or fewer external achievements do not reduce the quality of
the inner being or of being happy. The important thing is that you believe your
own definition of success and failure. Some ideas can be shared that can act as
guidelines, but, in the end, each person has to create their own guidelines,
definitions and factors leading to success and failure. Basing ourselves on
these guidelines and beliefs, we evaluate our successes and failures. You can reflect on what true success and
failure mean for you and, according to those meanings, centre your attention on
the values and efforts that lead you to achieve your objectives.
For many, society has conditioned us to look for success through the path of our career, achievements, profits, praise, financial wealth etc. That way, we have learned a narrow view of success. Running in search of this kind of success and pursuing it, we come to exhaust ourselves, get burnt out and depressed. In order to achieve these successes we have stopped caring for the inner being (the soul) and relationships. That has meant and means stress, pain, anxiety, family break ups, personal and relational disintegrations, the destruction of the environment and planetary and climatic imbalances. As a consequence, we feel empty. Although we achieve the applause, the income and other successes, the soul is malnourished and has the sensation that it is lacking something. Reaching fame, financial wealth, the power of a visible position, and reaching it with a broken soul, broken up family and a sick body, causes depression which explains why, in our recent history , famous people have ended up committing suicide.
If we want to redirect our personal and collective lives toward true wellbeing and wholeness, we have to re-evaluate and redefine our beliefs and factors that lead to success and failure. Before asking yourself what success and failure mean for you, it is important to be clear what context you want success in. Depending on the context, the dimension and the meaning of success and failure will be different. For example, in the work context, a failure will be different to that in the family context. In the personal context or in life in general, the way of perceiving success or failure varies.
Disclaimer: This article is reproduced from "Positive Reflections For The Day messages sent by the Brahmakumaris". Daily articles can be subscribed by sending an email to awakeningwithbks@bkmail.org.
Also you can access Vijay Karanam's similar article WISDOM OF SUCCESS published in his other blog http://swetha-hrudayam.blogspot.com/
For many, society has conditioned us to look for success through the path of our career, achievements, profits, praise, financial wealth etc. That way, we have learned a narrow view of success. Running in search of this kind of success and pursuing it, we come to exhaust ourselves, get burnt out and depressed. In order to achieve these successes we have stopped caring for the inner being (the soul) and relationships. That has meant and means stress, pain, anxiety, family break ups, personal and relational disintegrations, the destruction of the environment and planetary and climatic imbalances. As a consequence, we feel empty. Although we achieve the applause, the income and other successes, the soul is malnourished and has the sensation that it is lacking something. Reaching fame, financial wealth, the power of a visible position, and reaching it with a broken soul, broken up family and a sick body, causes depression which explains why, in our recent history , famous people have ended up committing suicide.
If we want to redirect our personal and collective lives toward true wellbeing and wholeness, we have to re-evaluate and redefine our beliefs and factors that lead to success and failure. Before asking yourself what success and failure mean for you, it is important to be clear what context you want success in. Depending on the context, the dimension and the meaning of success and failure will be different. For example, in the work context, a failure will be different to that in the family context. In the personal context or in life in general, the way of perceiving success or failure varies.
Disclaimer: This article is reproduced from "Positive Reflections For The Day messages sent by the Brahmakumaris". Daily articles can be subscribed by sending an email to awakeningwithbks@bkmail.org.
Also you can access Vijay Karanam's similar article WISDOM OF SUCCESS published in his other blog http://swetha-hrudayam.blogspot.com/
