Our Definition of Success is Wrong

Our definition of success is all wrong. It sends us into a rat race to become rats. It puts us onto treadmills like hamsters. Running and running and running but getting nowhere. We need to shift our definition of success away from only climbing a corporate or social ladder, away from simply accumulation of wealth or prestige or possessions or titles and degrees, away from being measured by the size of our homes or cars, and into a definition that is actually meaningful as far as what we REALLY want from life, and what we are here for! We need a definition of success that asks how much love did you share today? How much light? How much healing? How effective of an instrument of peace, love, mercy, compassion and goodness were you today? Did you feel the Divine flowing through you? How connected were you to the core, the truth of your very being and the beings of those around you? Let these become the new questions we ask when judging our own and others’ success. Otherwise, we just become yet another rat – winning the race or losing the race — but a rat nonetheless…