'Success always comes when preparation meets opportunity.' ~ Henry Hartman

I've been thinking about this a lot lately; success, preparation and 'doing'. I've been asking myself (and my Clients) questions about what success means and what it means to move towards a goal. There seems to be a great deal of 'doing' for many of us in achieving success. There seems to also be quite a bit of endless striving and moving, and not as much reflecting, meditating, and 'being'. Society around us says we need to 'go for it', strive, sell, achieve, go after something, visualize it, know you have it already, and on and on. What I am wondering is where is the love of the journey, the 'being with' the moment, and the breathing in the now? I find that we often spend so much time in the concept of what we will have when we achieve the goal, that we forget to live and breathe, and just be happy along the way. 

What is it within us that beckons us to keep moving all the time? What is it that won't allow for the stillness of sitting and staring at a sunset for 5 minutes, or just breathing and doing nothing else for 10 minutes, or even enjoying each step of the path we have chosen to put ourselves on? OK, by now you might be thinking, "Angela, I do enjoy my life, I do enjoy each step of the way." Great!! Good!! Now, how true is that? 

So here is the challenge; set the goal, and really define it. Don't leave anything out of that definition. Flesh it out completely. Now here is the clincher - write steps for yourself. Think of them as moments. Let the moments build, starting off small and getting bigger and bigger. Each one is achievable, yet if you were to take them out of the context of this plan they might not be, because each one builds on the last. When you've done that, breathe. Yes, really - just breathe. Look at what you just did, take it in. That was a lot of work. Give it it's due rewards, and with each time you achieve a moment from your plan do the same thing - stop, remember, look at what you just did, and breathe, just breathe. 

I will dare to say that success is in each moment of the journey. The end (the 'goal) is just another moment.

May you breathe in your moments.

Blessings,
Angela