Analyzing Success And Failure (cont.)

 *For many, society has conditioned us to look for success through the path
of our career, achievements, profits, praise, financial wealth etc. That
way, we have learned a narrow view of success. Running in search of this
kind of success and pursuing it, we come to exhaust ourselves, get burnt
out and depressed.* In order to achieve these successes we have stopped
caring for the inner being (the soul) and relationships. That has meant and
means stress, pain, anxiety, family break ups, personal and relational
disintegrations, the destruction of the environment and planetary and
climatic imbalances. As a consequence, we feel empty. Although we achieve
the applause, the income and other successes, the soul is malnourished and
has the sensation that it is lacking something. Reaching fame, financial
wealth, the power of a visible position, and reaching it with a broken
soul, broken up family and a sick body, causes depression which explains
why, in our recent history , famous people have ended up committing
suicide.

*If we want to redirect our personal and collective lives toward true
wellbeing and wholeness, we have to re-evaluate and redefine our beliefs
and factors that lead to success and failure.* Before asking yourself what
success and failure mean for you, it is important to be clear what context
you want success in. Depending on the context, the dimension and the
meaning of success and failure will be different. For example, in the work
context, a failure will be different to that in the family context. In the
personal context or in life in general, the way of perceiving success or
failure varies.