One Goal For a Successful Life

Success is determined by one thing: taking responsibility for our lives.

In sum, this is the internal locus of control.

It is staying within our sphere of influence. It is accepting the limitations of our control. It is accepting that we can do what we can do and that we should do what we can.

What I think, say, and do – all of it – is MY responsibility. Nobody else can be accountable for it.

Just the same, I’m not accountable for what another person thinks, says, or does. That’s their choice.

When we stay within our control, we master the moment, and we live our best life in the moment.

Does it simplify life too much to say that there is one main goal and that this is it?

I don’t think so.

In too many respects, we make life more complicated than it needs to be. If we truly want to succeed

in any endeavor in life, it is good to come back to this unchanging truth:

Be responsible for what we are responsible for.

The challenge is to live out of this paradigm to test its power. When we stay in this paradigm, we soon find the cogency of its power.

If we can see that this one thing leads to a successful life, we redefine for ourselves what true success looks like — as a spiritual truth. Then we realize there’s nothing more powerful.