Success... what is it?

“Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be” - George Sheehan

The continual mirage in our foresight of success in which was falsely built inside of us has been an illusion set forth on and off since the creation of the World. We have grown up in a World of status, things, money, and making it to the top. We believe people with wealth such as celebrities, sports stars, millionaires and billionaires, that these are the successful people of the World. Yet the funny thing is most of those people on top, never really feel on Top. Their lives now revolve around a higher pressure to perform for others. It's no longer about proving things to yourself, it has become about proving things to the World.

I once read about a time where no man had above another. A great philosopher once taught that it is unlawful to have that above another. It almost appears that the very moment we allowed things to become more important than people we let our true person slip away. We have been convinced through a society that status is what rules and that a good life with things that make us happy is what we should be seeking after.

The question we should ask ourselves is not only how can I become the person I was meant to be, yet who am I? We find ourselves often times working our lives away to earn money to buy these wonderful worldly possessions, yet we fail to see the slavery that is created from it. The slavery of having to work all the time to make an enormous house payment or pay off the overwhelming credit card bills because we thought we need things for the family and many other things. We have created slavery in the countries that we do not see that make the very computer we are looking at right now, that make the clothes we are wearing, that suffer so that our vendors can get things at a cheaper price to make more money. And we are the ones to blame. We are the people that purchase the items to make the system run.

The B Side To The Truth is to find success you must find out what success really is, who you are, and who you are to become. To be able to do that means a giant phase shift in life to see things from a completely different angle. Success at the end of the day will include lifting another, not making others suffer. The hard part is we typically can't see back stage, so we know not those with sorrow in their hearts.

Colton - discover your true'ness'