The Path to Success...but Firstly, What is Success?

What is success?

The word success is very general and can indicate many different things. Everyone understands it differently, and accordingly sets different goals. If we are to define success, we find it more appropriate to speak about overall or total success, a Successful Life, and we would divide a Successful Life into three basic components, three separate categories or stages: (1) Financial Success, (2) Social Success and (3) Spiritual Success.

Financial Success is often associated with the material world - money, power and wealth, economic prosperity and security, while Social Success can be linked with social acceptance, publicity, fame, influence, personal persuasiveness and political power.

While both financial and social success are easily spotted and stem from (and represent) the ?external/outer world? of a person, true success comes from within and happens on a very different level of experience. When speaking of true success, we are referring to inner success, what we call Spiritual Success.

A financially successful man is rich, a socially successful man is richer and a spiritually successful man is the richest. 

— Erenda & Metelko

This does not refer to religious fulfillment (although for many people this may be one aspect of this type of success), but to the achievement of inner personal goals and values not directly visible to others, which may be associated with blissfulness, fulfillment, happiness, love, compassion, honor, chivalry, integrity and resonance (being in tune with your own personal calling, your true mission in life). 

When this level is reached, a person starts seeing and sensing himself and the world around him in a completely different way.

Greed and money are replaced by integrity and compassion; power and fame are replaced by self-satisfaction and self-sufficiency and the word ?me? changes to ?we?.

A person is not trying to impose anything on anyone, he just IS and lives, doing things with a different kind of energy and approach, and the people around him naturally start to feel and honor that. He is not just talking the talk, he is walking the walk.

When you trust your intuition, you act so convincingly that others subconsciously start to follow you,” affirmed Ivo Boscarol, founder and CEO of Pipistrel, the first company in the world to bring out a fully electric twin-seater aircraft.*

Striving for the misleading forms of success brings more harm than good to our body, mind and soul, and so listening to our inner voice usually becomes more important in relation to all forms of health aswell.

?Success without fulfillment is the ultimate failure. The ultimate failure!?

—Tony Robbins

Tony Robbins, an entrepreneur, best-selling author, incredible philanthropist, and one of the world′s best life and business strategists, who has empowered more than 50 million people from 100 countries through his programs, spoke in one interview about two important skills: the science of achievement and the art of fulfillment.

Making money is based on ?science? and following certain rules: ?Any age, any color, any background, any gender, if you do these things, you will have an abundance of money,? he says. The same applies to the body: ?Everyone`s biochemically different, but you and I both know there are fundamental rules, laws, there`s a science of the body. You violate that science, you`re gonna have a disease, you′re gonna have low energy. If you align with that, you`re gonna have an abundance of energy.? Of course, inner fulfillment is not like that at all, it is not a science, it is an art. ?Most people think, 'Well, I want to get that' because they`re modeling somebody else and that might work on how to achieve something.? But as he nicely continues, ?It will never work for what fulfills you. Success without fulfillment is the ultimate failure. The ultimate failure! Because if you go at something and you fail and you`re an achiever, you don`t [really] fail, you`re like 'I learned something, I`ll just try something else. I`m still going to get there'; but when you succeed and you are not happy... you`re technically screwed.?

Robbins cites a very good example, the comedian and actor Robin Williams, who was a great achiever, he even won an Academy Award for NOT being funny; he achieved everything and yet he hung himself. ?And I know someone`s saying, 'You know, he had dementia, he had drug abuse, he had alcohol abuse through most of his life', because he made everybody happy but whom?? The answer to this question is absolutely clear - himself. ?That`s the ultimate failure,? Robbins says, and continues: ?I believe our lives are controlled by one force – decisions. I certainly believe in a force greater than myself, call it God if you will, grace, whatever you want to call it, the universe. But I also believe it gives us choices.?**

If you never have before, maybe now is the right time to start listening to your intuition. Look deep down inside yourself and ask: ?Am I really happy? Am I living a meaningful life? Do I remain in a beautiful state of mind, regardless of my circumstances and surroundings??

We have performed extensive studies on this subject, and in our new book Intuition and Success we are presenting numerous examples and testimonials from highly successful people from around the world and all throughout history, each having their own success story to tell, and yes, you guessed it: at some point in their lives, they each started trusting their inner voice and letting it lead the way to their fulfillment and a meaningful life.

Would love to hear your thouhts. What is success?

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*At the time of publishing this book, larger competitors like Airbus have only developed prototype electric planes. Pipistrel was named the most innovative company in the European Union in 2010 and is a multiple NASA Challenge winner.

**"Master Happiness - Tony Robbins | Inside Quest #40," [Online]. Available: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Sf3vMMErwg. [Accessed April 2018].

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