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“Success in life could be defined as the continued expansion of happiness and the progressive realization of worthy goals. Success is the ability to fulfill your desires with effortless ease. And yet success, including the creation of wealth, has always been considered to be a process that requires hard work, and it is often considered to be at the expense of others. We need a more spiritual approach to success and affluence, which is the abundant flow of all good things to you. With the knowledge and practice of spiritual law, we put ourselves in harmony with nature and create with carefreeness, joy, and love.”
This quote was from Deepak Chopra’s book the 7 spiritual laws of success, as today we start a new mini-series of videos on this wonderful little book. It is important that we are all able to define our own definition of success, otherwise, we will not know how to get there. I really like coach wooden’s definition of success that we talked about when we presented his pyramid of success. He says: “Success is peace of mind that is the direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.”
What I love about this quote, is also that it is very inline with my philosophy. I like to consider myself an aspiring stoic philosopher as I resonate a lot with that philosophy and its ways to obtain the good life, the good soul, through virtue and purpose and flourishing. And the stoic approach to practically everything is to fully focus on what it is that you can fully control: your actions, and your reactions to external events. Once you have done the best you can, the outcome is ultimately outside of your control, and so we do not focus on this.
Success comes then, very much like coach Wooden tells us, from the process, much more than from the outcome. If you focus on giving love, on radiating love moment to moment each day, if you act with empathy and compassion and care, that love will very probably be reflected back to you. If you are a good person in general, chances are that people will be good to you.
Now, having said that, in stoic philosophy, we train to be prepared at the event that people are not good to you, and don’t reflect your love, or don’t respond to your wonderful business proposition. This is something that we will talk about in-depth in future videos. A little reminder, the seven spiritual laws of success are:
1. The law of pure potentiality
2. The law of Giving
3. The Law of “Karma"
4. The law of least effort
5. The Law of intention and desire
6. The law of detachment
7. The law of dharma
Journaling exercise:
Take your journal, it doesn’t matter if its on paper on iPad or on the computer, we put our timer for 5 minutes, that is 300 seconds, and we write, without taking the pen off of the paper, without stopping, and more importantly, without editing yourself. Don’t care about spelling and grammar, don't care if your sentences make sense. Just write. Often times, we find ourselves writing little gems and learn so much about ourselves. The subject of today, of course, is success. 300 seconds, let’s write down our own definition of success. How we view success. Who for us is successful. I don't want you to go in Deepak’s direction, or in Coach Wooden’s definition of success direction, but go in your direction. There are no mistakes, everything is valid. I'm going to do it with you, let me set up my timer here. Ready? Set? Write.
Ok guys, awesome. Feels great to write non stop for 5 minutes. Like putting some weight off our shoulders also, no? Great too that you can use often. Keep that page, what you have written. Maybe come back to it in some time.
EMPOWERING AFFIRMATIONS OF THE DAY:
* I choose what success means to me
* I am successful in my own eyes when I act with virtue
* I am successful when I give the very best of myself to someone, or to an action.
* I have control over my success
* I focus on the process, not on the outcome