The Essence Of All Success

The Essence Of All Success

Be it regarding our Health, Wealth, Career or Relationships

The central dynamic of all successful human endeavors is something we are not fully capable of understanding. We call it Spirit. Though we cannot wrap our minds around it, we know it when we see it, and we also feel the empty black hole whenever it is missing. It seems to be ephemeral in our material world, but nevertheless, Spirit rules! Why? Because whenever it is missing failure occurs. Only opposites come close to explaining it:

- Couples who reunite in the evening after a long hard work day or after the kids are in bed, who, over a glass of wine, intimately share the events of their day with one another – and the couple glued to the television until bedtime. - The manager who makes a concerted effort on a weekly basis to communicate with each team member regarding the challenges faced to offer suggestions from her experience and expertise – and the manager whose only concern is the monthly sales reports that show bottom line results. - The dinner party filled with spontaneous, interesting conversations, with the central acceptance by all of respectfully agreeing-to-disagree – and the awkward silences of political correctness during superficial interactions jumping from one topic to another out of fear of disturbing anyone. - Any teacher, from Pre-K to Post-Doctorate studies, who realizes that the most important lesson that he/she can communicate to any student is the joy of learning, and thereby enthusiastically takes on the role of actor, entertainer and even sales person at different times, in the conscious understanding that the mind is indeed a terrible thing to waste - and the teacher performing the lessons in rote fashion, looking forward to hearing the end of day school bell ring. - The art critic who honestly attempts to think outside-the-box in understanding the artists goal in inventing something new – and frustrated, would-be-artist art critics, who project their condescending ego in trashing the works of dedicated artists, without giving their creations and hard work a second thought. - Business partners, corporate executives and entrepreneurs who recognize their responsibility in providing quality products and services to customers, and truly care about the welfare of their employees – and those whose only interest is in how their stock is performing on Wall Street. - The blissful joy of children that continues into their adulthood from parents who truly paid-it-forward by the care they gave, not just out of their love of their children, but from the serious acceptance of their responsibility in raising them – and – those whose personal priorities narcissistically always come first.

Or explained in other ways:

- What makes entrepreneurs, inventors and researchers start over again after failure upon failure until they succeed? - Why do people with major disabilities like deaf dumb and blind Helen Keller, theoretical physicist Steven Hawking, and politician FDR, actualize their potential with almost unbelievable feats of success in rising above their disabilities? - What motivates children who fall hundreds of times in learning how to walk to try again and again in overcoming their tears and scrapes? - What was missing in the consciousness of those in hospice care who proclaim as their major regret what they did not do in their lives because of fear of failing? - What motivates individuals overwhelmed with catastrophic illness to 'fight-the-good-fight' regardless of their prognosis?