Success More Succinctly

"Be excellent at what you are" was the last conclusion I came to about how to express success in a way that fit my values.

But this morning, while meditating, it occurred to me that there is something even more succinct and closer to my beliefs: "Be what you are."

That in itself can take us down new and unexpected paths. We are not our conditioning. We are not what our culture tells us we are or ought to be.

What am I? What are you?

Stand in it, shine with it, express it no matter what others have said or done to or implied about us. There's the challenge.

sunset at Lake Success, photo by Patrick Mackin, click to enlarge

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