@ Positively Present,
I am so proud of you; in a world where people read and write blogs to travel the road to spiritual enlightenment, this quote made my heart sing:

I don’t think I have a good measuring stick for my own success and that’s one of the reasons that I struggle with feeling successful. We can all be successful at something — we just need to find out what that something is and how to measure it.

That’s why I try so hard to help people discover themselves and their life purpose. It really is the road to simple abundance. Please try the tips in yesterday’s post. Ask yourself what score out of ten you’d give yourself for every area of your life at the moment – ten being “Couldn’t be happier!!” Then ask yourself what would need to happen to make you feel better about that part of your life. That’s how we can work out the small steps we need to take to get there and find the people who can support us in those efforts. You’re very hard working and focused; I can tell by the amount of positive comments you leave all over the blogosphere, but what do you long for in your non-blogging life?

@Nadia,
Thank you! It was interesting for me to compare my often tiring blogging journey with the focus I had back then when I wrote this piece, when improving my coaching improved my life.

I agree about going to bed happy knowing we’ve used our gifts the best we could. When I talk of defining and measuring success, I mean in the simplest of ways, like deciding when I wake that I’m going to do the small things that lead to cumulative happiness and not put them off till tomorrow. Even if life intervenes, setting the intention to be true to myself and give myself, my family and my community the love they deserve colours my focus and energy for the whole day. It doesn’t take much to make me happy these days but when I’m tired or overwrought, I’ve noticed that it takes less to topple me. That’s why I find some system of personal inner ‘measurement’ helpful. It helps give me a sense of perspective and proportion.

@Tess,
I wrote that article a few years ago, but coincidentally, I spent the weekend clearing out, too. A good spring clean always makes me feel abundant!

You raise a very good point about how the world views success these days. I feel we’re seeing a whole wave of people redefining what success means. I’ve been on my own spiritual journey since I was a weird, hippy, incense-burning teenager, but it’s so lovely having travelling companions now who don’t think I’m ‘woo woo’ when I talk about the things that matter to me. When I wrote my first book, there was 40 cms shelf space about personal development in my local book store. Now there’s an entire 2.5metre section.

I also have a couple of Richards books. I believe the last I read was the one his wife wrote about the love they had for each other. Remarkable.

Just living and breathing happy and joyfully is success for me. I think today the world is changing the way we define success or is it the other way around?

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