In Sync With the Source – Where “Success” Comes From

What you want, and what the Source wants, needs to be in sync.  If it is not in sync, neither of you will get what you want… yet.  The Source knows that both will get what they want.  The Source knows what it wants, the question is, have you figured out what you want?  The Source is God, spirit, or higher self – whatever you deem to be that spiritual energy that surrounds you.  For me, it is just Energy.  It is always there with us.  It is as close as the air we breathe.  This is my experience based on a lifetime of spiritual contemplation.

As I have journeyed through life, I have made attempts to make lots of money.  At first, I wanted to take advantage of some programs that I thought would make me a lot of money really fast in a short period of time – yep, a get rich scheme.  Most of these were in the form of multi-level marketing programs which I was sure that I deserved to be in the top tier.  My plan looked kind of like this:

Yep, do very little work for a lot of money – I would have no need to climb those other walls that loomed ahead of me.  Well, as you might imagine, those never really panned out quite as expected.

Inevitably, I have found that after much work, my anticipated rewards have been quite small to non-existent.I remember wondering if maybe success looked something like a hiking trip in the mountains does.  I remember once when I was hiking a trail that was supposed to eventually lead to a surprise overlook where we would be able to see the Pacific Ocean in all its grandness.  I would keep thinking, maybe it is just over this ridge – no, maybe it is just over this next ridge – no, maybe it is just around this bend, when all of a sudden, it just appeared – BAM!  And what a beautiful sight it was.  It had made all the anticipation worth it.   So my view on success evolved into something akin to that particular hike.  It might not be over the next ridge or around the next bend, but if I was patient, it would be there.    So my belief in success began to look something like this:

However, after climbing and quitting before I reached the top, I am not even sure if this is a possibility.  For all I know, this really is the way.  But I haven’t experienced it, so I don’t know.  If I am to experience it however, I know that some of the changes I have been going through lately are more likely to lead me in the right direction.

So, since I didn’t have the motivation to keep climbing ridges and turning bends, then I thought, maybe it is more like climbing walls again, after all.  I have to figure out a way of climbing over a series of difficult walls, after after each wall, would be a greater treasure.  So, my belief system had changed to look something like this:

I felt, at this time, that I was on the right track, until I got over the second wall and found nothing there.  I had worked so hard to climb over my first wall, so I thought, only to find a small treasure.  Since my next wall was higher, and more challenging, I thought my next treasure should be that much more lucrative.  Well, it didn’t quite work out that way either.  So, I thought maybe this is a journey where I have to climb many walls without expectations and eventually I would hit the mother lode at some point in the future when I least expected it. That thought looked something like this:

But this seemed pretty demotivating to me, so I just quit on the idea of making a lot of money altogether – for a while.

Since none of the scenarios that I had thought up in my head seemed to be working, I just figured maybe the chaos theory is at play and there is really no rhyme or reason, or system for that matter, to success and wall climbing.  So I began to believe that it must look something like this:

Those treasures in the above image could be moved around to any position as there was truly no pattern that could possibly make sense because nothing had made sense with anything I have ever done in my life so far.

But my biggest problem, obviously, was that what I wanted and what my Source wanted were not in sync.  I say, obviously, because I began to have visions that what I was doing was not only not for my benefit, but also not for the benefit of those I was “helping.”  I wasn’t really helping anyone.  I was only trying to become rich.  After years of trying to make money first, I simply gave up.  I surrendered.  All I wanted was something that would make me happy – something that I could do for the rest of my career, something with which I could stick to for a while.  Something that would allow me to spend time with my son.  Something that would give me a sense of satisfaction in what I was doing with my life.

Sometimes huge blessings come in small packages.  Sometimes, they come in no package at all.  Sometimes you don’t realize what a blessing it was until years later.  This has been true for me with teaching.  One of my biggest blessing was being fired from the job I had before I started teaching.  That experience has taught me that you never know if something is a blessing or not.  So, I find myself not judging even the “bad” things that happen to me.

(Side Note:  Other times, the packages seem so huge that is it hard to imagine yourself not being satisfied for the rest of your life.  Have you ever read about lottery winners?  Eighty-five percent of lottery winners eventually end up broke in their lifetimes because they just don’t know how to manage their windfall.  They blow it all.  Then they find themselves left wondering, how did they lose it so fast?)

What I am beginning to find for myself is that it is all about approach.  It wasn’t until I surrendered my desire to be grossly rich that I began to see why I had failed in the past.  What was my purpose for climbing the walls?  Was it the hope of gaining incredible wealth?  For me, that is all it was.  What is your purpose for climbing that wall?  If your only purpose is merely your desire to satisfy your avarice, then you are doomed to fail – even should you initially appear to succeed.

The purpose must include love of others.  At the very minimum, it must include a desire to help others.  Most human beings will be able to read right through you if your only purpose is self-satisfaction.

“I am here only to be truly helpful,” it says in A Course In Miracles.  If your goals included making boatloads of money, but you are not truly helpful, and I do mean truly, then those whom you appear to be helping will read right through your facade – and sometimes they won’t even know why.  It will be an instinctual or gut feeling that they cannot explain – but most people won’t have to explain, they will just go with their gut feeling.

The quote may be, “Do what you love and the money will follow.”  But what I am finding is that money doesn’t really matter.  The only thing that really matters is that you are happy.  It doesn’t matter your circumstances, as long as you are happy, isn’t that all that really matters?

If success is important to you, are you in sync with the Source?  The way to find out is to go within.  The best way to go within is to meditate.  Here is how I meditate. 

Namaste