Are You Allowing Greatness and Success? 10 Ways to Live a Life of Bravery

April 25th, 2018

By Hilde Larsen

Contributing writer for Wake Up World

Allowing greatness into your life is brave. Being successful is brave. Being inspiring to yourself and others is brave.

Successful people are inspiring people, and they are like magnets. They draw attention, curiosity and interest. People want some of it to rub off on them, and they might even want a part of their limelight. They become hot topics of discussion, and they present as leaders in their fields.

But what is success?

The word success has many connotations and definitions, and there are probably as many thoughts and opinions on what success is, as there are people going after and hungering for it. Success cannot be defined into a single sentence or a word. It is comprised of many different factors, and depends on your goals, your values and your general mindset. In general: To reach a goal would be considered a success, and to feel you have achieved would be considered being successful.

The way we have been conditioned, and the fact that money has been attached to power, we often link success to riches, to material gains. We look at people who are driving the most expensive cars as the most successful ones. We look at famous people like movie stars as the typical definition of success. They look happy, they have money, they are mostly fit, and they seem to be living their dream. Sure, we know they also experience loss, depression, heartache, weight gain and life crises. They are human. Still we get blinded by the spotlights and the presentation of fame and success. The media has created a false picture, and the farther the presented image is from the average life, the more we are distanced from feeling successful ourselves. Us, the average Joe. The more glam and glitter we are presented with, together with images of happiness and the “good life”, the less successful we feel. We experience a sense of lack, depending on the size of the gap between what you are presented with, compared where we are.

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