The Only Measure of Success

The only measure of success you should weight yourself against is the level of self-control you maintain in all areas of your life.

All other expectations, goals and manifestations may fall short of your highest celebration of self.

The single minded focus that will lead you on the path of conscious evolution is the level of self-control you are able to have in your day to day thinking, activities and manifestations.

The more control you have over your thinking, the better the chances of divine guidance to flow freely through you.

The more control you have over your actions, the more in-line you will be with the power of the present moment.

This is because as soon as you allow the mind to dwindle on thoughts of the past, you are not centered in the present, you are running with your mind to emotions like regret, guilt, resentment, anger that stems from those memories of the past.

As soon as you run with your mind out to the future, you allow emotions of fear - like fear of the future or fear of failure - to overcome your state of being.

These emotions have the potential to spin you into the world of duality.

The only means of staying centered is to be in the present. The present is devoid of emotional attachments, thus you become a vehicle of expression for consciousness and truth manifests into actions.

This is not to say that you should not have goals, or loving memories. Just make sure that you have resolved the memories of the past with negative emotional connotations. Find the lesson in these and transcend (close the book, so to say) with gratitude for the lessons in life.

When you fly out towards the future with dreams and visualizations, let them fly out, freely, without holding on too tightly.

For the constant state of change may render your dreams more magnificent tomorrow than you may dream of today.

The easiest way to be centered in the present is with the attitude of gratitude. For in the present there is nothing who you should be, nothing that you should have, except being who you are right now.

See all your primary relationships as a reflection of yourself. Release addictions knowing that they hold power over you and thus weakens your own.

Win back the control of your mind and it will become your greatest asset.