Inner life success does not shun outer world accomplishment.
But its practice demands disentanglement from habitual, blind consumption and preferring done-for-you solutions. It invokes destruction of clinging to formulaic processes that “make sense” but are lifeless, devoid of sourcing from what makes you uncommon.
It requires cutting off the addictive supply and reliance on external validation as the only reflection of your value. This is about dropping into a deeper realm of substance, dissolving the grip of accolades that come and go, owned by reputation alone.
To cultivate a path of inner life success means stepping over your conditioned boundaries, choosing to direct your attention and life force toward what draws you in and nourishes, even while it feels disorienting. From this place of intentional uncertainty, you can now create a new compass, new tools and fresh signals of directional awareness to play with.
You can confidently sit in the midst of your own enriched complexity, discerning contrasting light and shadows as new aspects of your innate fullness. The structured forms of brilliance that were formerly hidden under confusion and overgrowth are now uncovered.
From here you can design and build anew – inciting those you lead, love, and co-create with to do the same. Because you accept the depth and unique truth of your own inner life terrain, you begin to flourish.
This flourishing is what feeds more potent levels of outer world accomplishment and recognition, primed in integrity and grace-filled generosity.
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Originally written, April 2022.