When it comes to true success in this life -- regardless of whatever world it is in which we strive for excellence -- there is no greater ability than to be able to do what we don't want to do, when we don't want to do it, and, in all cases, to do it well.

Part 1: To pause in the face of a challenge -- and measure there the possibility of our success by considering the odds against it -- not only keeps us from taking direct intuitive action, but such delays actually serve to make us captives of the same fear that we have taken as our council and guide. Part 2: The secret of higher success is to make impersonal those times and places where we s...

"Failure" is never to be feared; we must never bow before what seems to lay us low. Better our attention should be turned to our false ideas about the nature of "success" -- and to see there, beneath its gilded veil, the face of the cruel master whose slave we have agreed to become.

If the nature of this world, if its reality is as we have been led to believe by our society at large, then one's daily dose of suffering is sure to be seen as undesirable and, above all, unnecessary; a thing to avoid at all costs, that with ample fortune or favor we may hope to escape altogether. But if the Reality of our individual lives, its True Measure of Success is not to be determined...

The secret of higher success is to make impersonal those times when we stumble or fall, whereas to take failure personally is to lose sight of the one Great Lesson that Life would have us learn: there is no "self" to fail (at anything) -- only a certain level of understanding not as yet adequate to the task set before it. To know this truth helps us transcend not only the trials we must face...

Topics covered: success, willingness, failure, persistence, trial, courage, fear

Topics covered: new business venture, try something new, success, ambition...

In this question-and-answer session during an online webinar, bestselling "letting go" author Guy Finley talks about the enormous difference between so-called success in the world, and the realization of a person's highest spiritual possibilities.

Topics covered: Success is not self-fulfillment; Relationships serve self-knowledge; Man's gift as a creator; Life acts upon us and we act upon life; Using unwanted moments as transcending events; Letting go is an inside affair; Resistance is negative attraction; Living with clarity; The divided mind and fear; Using attention as a uniting force; Seeing the truth of yourself.

Real Success in life is not determined by measuring up to some pre-set social standard of accomplishment, but is found through the individual effort it takes to go beyond what blocks our way in the moment. Such a deliberate effort in the face of our own doubts and fears always proves these negative states powerless . . . which is the same as discovering within ourselves the power to be free.

Counter to popular opinion, real success is not measured by the amount of our possessions. Simply stated, the truth is that real success -- ultimately the only success -- is determined by how much we are in actual possession of ourselves. And by the light of this great fact of life, we can also see that the person who fears the loss of what he thinks is his success has not truly succeeded.

Topics covered: future, someday, savings, planning, save, retirement, retiring, successful, salvation, heaven, hell, judgment day, judgement day, god...