Comments on: A successful man? http://www.i-change.biz/blog/?p=3073 Our lives are the sum total of the choices we make and the changes we effect. These are my musings about this journey... Thu, 02 Sep 2010 15:38:01 +0100 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: What a Wonderful Life! - Change Blog http://www.i-change.biz/blog/?p=3073&cpage=1#comment-1195 What a Wonderful Life! - Change Blog Sat, 26 Dec 2009 19:43:38 +0000 http://www.i-change.biz/blog/?p=3073#comment-1195 [...]     « A successful man? [...] [...]     « A successful man? [...]

]]> By: richardderwentcooke http://www.i-change.biz/blog/?p=3073&cpage=1#comment-1194 richardderwentcooke Fri, 25 Dec 2009 15:16:54 +0000 http://www.i-change.biz/blog/?p=3073#comment-1194 Sam, I have to agree, but it can be oh so hard when confronted with this kind of obvious success. Being present is <u>the</u> challenge that confronts us all. If I felt I had mastered this one, I would indeed label myself a <i>'success'</i> Sam,
I have to agree, but it can be oh so hard when confronted with this kind of obvious success. Being present is the challenge that confronts us all. If I felt I had mastered this one, I would indeed label myself a ‘success’

]]> By: Sam Deeks http://www.i-change.biz/blog/?p=3073&cpage=1#comment-1193 Sam Deeks Fri, 25 Dec 2009 14:28:33 +0000 http://www.i-change.biz/blog/?p=3073#comment-1193 Do I feel successful? It's a good question. When I'm being totally unenlightened, I measure my 'success' against a whole pile of culturally-agreed measures (wealth, beauty, fame, power, influence)... and fail depressingly. The more enlightened I feel, the less I measure 'success' (mine or anyone elses') and the more I just accept things as they are in the moment and let go of what they 'mean'. Like millions of people, I've spent a lot of my life torturing myself with an idea of 'success' that I could either waste my life yearning for or use to punish myself for failing to achieve. Don't know about you, but for me it was all just about not being present in the here and now. Do I feel successful? It’s a good question. When I’m being totally unenlightened, I measure my ‘success’ against a whole pile of culturally-agreed measures (wealth, beauty, fame, power, influence)… and fail depressingly.

The more enlightened I feel, the less I measure ‘success’ (mine or anyone elses’) and the more I just accept things as they are in the moment and let go of what they ‘mean’.

Like millions of people, I’ve spent a lot of my life torturing myself with an idea of ‘success’ that I could either waste my life yearning for or use to punish myself for failing to achieve. Don’t know about you, but for me it was all just about not being present in the here and now.

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