Badassery Magazine August 2018 Issue 27 | Page 45

things. I doesn’t say what success is. In fact, it doesn’t define success at all. It simply specifies achieving it in a way which renders onlookers completely awestruck. It leaves defining what success is completely up to you. SUCCESS DEFINED When you hear the word success, what pops into your head. Are you sitting on a yacht in the middle of the Mediterranean sipping champagne? Or, is it looking at your bank statement seeing all the commas breaking up your account balance? Is that when you’ll finally feel like you’ve made it? When you get to that point in the future, how do you feel? Will you be happy and content with everything that is right with the world? When you are looking to the future and envisioning all the joy and gratitude, and the feeling of significance. We convince “ SUCCESS IS NOT A POINT IN THE FUTURE. SUCCESS IS SOMETHING YOU CAN EXPERIENCE WITH WHAT YOU HAVE RIGHT NOW — AS YOU ARE — TODAY. ” accomplishments you need to check off to finally be considered a success, it’s not really the achievement you are craving. You are craving the feeling you imagine you’ll have when you get it — that feeling of pride, the sense of accomplishment, a feeling of ourselves that checking off the success to-do list boxes will bring us these feelings. The truth is, checking boxes is not where those feelings originate. The feelings you are craving originate inside you — in your mind, in your heart, and in your soul. AUGUST 2018 • 45