Don't Chase Success

One of the hardest things for people to do is, well, not to do what the title of this blog asks you to do: don't chase success.

After all, we're guided by the "advice" that we must strive and put effort to achieve things. So how can we not chase success? Isn't that basically telling us to become passive vegetables?

No -- because you should still strive to do things, and put effort, and indeed, pay attention to whatever task you have in front of you; whether it's running a company or making a cup of tea. The lesson here, however, is that you shouldn't reduce what you're doing to a means of achieving success; you shouldn't neglect your current task because it's simply a part of something called success.

When you chase success, you stop paying attention to the HOW, and you become obsessively focused on the WHAT. As such, you simply lose the power of the present moment; or what Eckhart Tolle calls, The Power of Now.

NOW is where your power is. NOW is where you have to pay attention.