Are Your Fulfilled?

Daily Success Motivation & Positive Thinking

"Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get." --Hayden

It has been said that we have really succeeded in life when all we actually want is what we really need. In pursuing the "things" of life there is always the question of needs versus wants. On you trek your way towards success you should think carefully about want you want and whether what you want is really a fulfillment of what you need.

You see the secret to fulfillment is contentment and satisfaction. Why is it that most people define success as the accumulation of or getting of more stuff? Because the culture defines success as having more and more and more. The deception is that more is never enough as this very conditioning of getting more makes it so. In other words if you train yourself to believe that you need to get more and more in order to be successful, happiness will always elude because there is always more to get and you will never ever be able to get it all.

Please understand that. You will never get it all. There will always be someone who has more than you. There is someone with more looks than you, more body than you, more money than you, more business than you and more "stuff" than you. So what is the answer to pursuing more of what you want when wanting more can never be enough?

Are You Full and Filled?
The answer is to first realize that the pursuit of more will actually never be enough! The pursuit of more is really negative thinking disguised as positive thinking and the pursuit of more is also mistaken for healthy success motivation. The problem with this conditioning is that a huge emphasis on the external trappings of life is promoted above improving the internal quality of life. If you do not improve your inward perceptions of yourself and your surroundings you will never find happiness. Instead of contentment you will produce resentment because of what you don't have and because of what you see that others do have. You will never become full and filled of the goodness of life. You will become and empty shell of a person who's only building character through constant consumption of things instead of contribution and human value.

You see it isn't how much you have, it is about how much you can enjoy and give. It is plain old satisfaction in action. Is the pursuit of "things" wrong? Of course not. It is the motive behind the pursuit of things. When you can enjoy what you have right where you are you can express joy and share happiness with others because you are settled and at rest about your life. But more importantly you will be able to really enjoy the "more" of life you are able to get. You are happy with your life and where you are going. The pursuit of things then really becomes the desire for provision and the enjoyment of the "things" life has to offer.

There is nothing wrong with cars, homes and clothes when you recognize that they are to be enjoyed from a place of contentment and satisfaction. You have to realize that these things are not the source of happiness. YOU ARE! Success, money or fame will only amplify who you really are. If you are unhappy or insecure and you pursue success to fill that void, your success will only make you more unhappy and insecure. You will never have enough things to make you happy and secure inside and you will never be enough to enjoy your success when you work from the outside in.

Become More Full and Filled From The Inside
It is very easy to want what you can't have and reject what is readily available to you. Some things that are readily available to you are peace, joy, charity and benevolence. These intangible and priceless gifts will support you on the "inside" and that is what really counts in order to win in life. Ben Franklin said "Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it...The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of filling a vacuum, it makes one."

Again, I'm not against more money or stuff. I'm for balanced pursuit of abundance. Substance and fortunes ebb and flow all throughout life. A life built on the quality and quantity of things is a life most unstable and unhappy. After the money, cars and homes you will still be alone with yourself. In the midnight hour when you are all alone with your own thoughts, will and emotions...What matters most? What do you really want?

I would bet that the one thing you need most is satisfaction. You need to feel that sense of contentment and that life is enough and that you are enough in that very moment. Abundance is a blessing when it isn't solely the means of what you want. Abundance is a blessing when it is the result of who you are.

So, as you set your goals and pursue success realize that your journey will be challenging with up and downs and that you should never seek to find happiness in the pursuit of getting more. Happiness will elude you in this way and you will never be full and filled. You should find satisfaction and fulfillment in becoming more of who you need to be for success and in exercising greater satisfaction in what you have...Because getting more is never enough.

© 2005 T. L. Pakii Pierce - Upgrade Your Mind
The Mindset Motivator
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Daily Success Motivation and Positive Thinking for Powerful Life Change

May 16, 2005 in Positive Thinking | Permalink

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nice site... very insightful...

the more we take, the less we become.

Posted by: Mishku at May 17, 2005 1:40:51 PM

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Hi Mishku!

Thanks for posting!

TL

Posted by: T. L. Pakii Pierce at May 18, 2005 7:41:18 AM

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You are right, "getting more is never enough", satisfaction is something that must come from within.

I've seen what happens to people who in there relentless pursuit of "things" end up neglecting their relationships, health and even their humanity. The end was not pretty.

Anyway, I linked you on my study blog, you write some good stuff. Thanks.

Posted by: Ana at May 18, 2005 9:43:04 AM

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MOTIVE OF DOING A THING IS VERY PARAMOUNT TO FULFILLING OUR LIFE PURSUIT

Posted by: ISAAC PLACID at Nov 15, 2005 4:43:43 AM

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