The Desire for Success & Relationships
While the basic desire for success is naturally a part of all of us, what we view as important varies.
A broad spectrum exists from improved health and fitness, greater personal development, achievement, travel, fulfilling relationships, a deeper spiritual life, a more harmonious family life, a more exciting social life, more financial freedom, education, personal growth, or more free time.
With no shortage of books, tapes or CD’s to listen and learn from, why is this most sought after desire going largely unfulfilled by many?
The desire for success hasn’t changed over time; what’s changed is our perception of the way we get there.
We always achieved success through relationship—now we understand that to better help and receive help, we must fundamentally experience this in all aspects of our lives.
Therefore, the intention to form solid relationships must be at the forefront of all our interactions.
The driving force behind this thought is that relationships are primary to everyone’s experience.
We are constantly in relationship with our self, with others, and with a greater environment, world, and source.
A continuous process of cultivating, attuning and attending to these relationships over a lifetime is part of the human experience we share with one another.
Our observation skills, our diagnostic skills, and our remembering what is most important increases the quality of interaction in relationships, and, we would add, increases the quality of life.
I’d like to leave you with one of my favorite quotes from Albert Einstein.
“Strange is our situation here upon earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why yet seeming to divine a purpose. From the standpoint of daily life there is one thing we do know. That we are here for the sake of others… Many times a day I realize how much my own outer and inner life is built upon the labors of others, both living and dead, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received and am still receiving.”
Albert Einstein
March 5th, 2007 at 12:32 am
I like the topic you broach: the longing for success, and how relationships are central in both the accomplishment of success, and… well
(I’m not clear on whether I’m rewording what you are saying, or making up a twist of my own here, but it’s funny to play with the following thought:)
…relationship might be both the vessel to reach life’s more distant successes, and perhaps being in peaceful, loving relationship to our experience of ourselves and others IS success in and of itself.
“We are constantly in relationship with our self, with others, and with a greater environment, world, and source.”
True that. My inner philosopher offers this:
Is the most important relationship to be successful in, not the one between the true state of things (reality as it IS), and the state I desire them to be in?
Must these two not see one another, honor one another, yes, indeed love one another, for me to live in a flow of bringing them to meet one another?
Is that perhaps what success, relationship, freedom and flow are made of?