The Secret to True Success is Revealing Your Best Self Along the Way Most people think that in order to be successful, they need to change who they are. This couldn't be further from the truth. You don't need to become someone else in order to achieve your goals. In fact, it's actually the opposite. True success comes when you align your material goals with the highest version of yourself you can envision so that you become more of who you are. Before we dive in, I have a free offer to give you. It’s an empowering affirmation sequence that puts you in the "I can do anything when I feel this powerful" kind of energy. Its a free PDF that you can find on my website www.dragongateuniversity.com and it’s called I Can & I Am FREE PDF Affirmation .You can tape it onto your mirror or leave it on your coffee table. I love these kinds of things to incorporate in my morning routine and putting it in the center of a vision board. If any of your guys turn it into something really pretty or creative please share it on tiktok and send it to me! I would love to see it! By the way: If we haven't met yet, I'm Alexa. I help heart centered people quit dimming and discover their impact so they can create the life of their dreams by unlocking who they are. I do this via Happiness and Success Courses & Energy Work at www.DragonGateUniversity.com So, as you set out to achieve your goals, it's important to remember that who you become in the process of achieving them is more important than the goals themselves. Too often, people focus on the external trappings of success without realizing that true happiness and fulfillment can only come from within. All other external success is actually a natural byproduct of deciding to focus on becoming the best version of yourself through said goals and desires. Your goal and desire is just the means for your expansion. Every time you set a goal it's essentially- like they sometimes do in cartoons to the puppy - tying a carrot onto a stick and holding it in front of you so you have immediate incentive to run forward. That carrot is your tangible goal, while the treasures you accumulate in the heart are the things that build the foundation for your happiness & wisdom. All of your inner workings are the only parts that determine your happiness in any given moment and the only success you take with you beyond death. So, when you consciously pick the shiniest carrot to run after and decide that it will be for a specific purpose, what’s actually happening is your spiritual legs are getting stronger and your jumping over mental obstacles with more ease. Your goal and desire is a cause that you make as an offering for who become in the process. It’s an offering to your future self, can you believe it?! Goals and dreams and desires, when backed by this kind of intention & purpose are the greatest way to honor and understand the value of your life. Too often, our material goals are actually misaligned with the direction that our highest selves exists. Or maybe we set our sights on a path that isn't aligned with who we are and what we value, but is instead a product of societal expectations or pressure from our families. This is why some of the wealthiest people make it to the top and still feel deeply lonely, empty & unfulfilled and these characteristics of the heart manifest themselves as self sabotage, meaning that these people usually do not maintain their success, wealth, or joy for long. I strongly recommend Zooming in and then Zooming out of each one of your goals to gain clarity in determining which of your goals and desires are not actually part of your highest path. And then discarding those. Because when you focus on the goals and desires that DO play supporting roles in creating your Highest reality you end up building a life you don’t actually want. So take inventory of your goals, are they on the road map towards your overarching dream life? Because each victory is much like building a bridge from where you are now, to your next life - while simultaneously creating and attracting all the supporting puzzle pieces necessary to reveal your ultimate Self, build your dream Lifestyle + Home & attract your World Peace Partner. Additionally, please get a little unhinged with the imagining up your future! Dream big and then dream bigger. Your goals and desires should feel exciting on a cellular level! So here is a straightforward step by step: 1 Get clear about what you don't want. To get clear about what you DO want. 2 Imagine the version of yourself that has what you do want. What does it feel like to be that version? What kind of characteristics do they have? Become this person to line up with what you want. 3 Attach a heart focused intention for each goal. If you do all 3 of these things your momentum will be insane!Here are some examples of good intentions: My goal/desire of achieving ___ is for the sake of…. Family Harmony. World Peace. A Sense of Stability. Developing Confidence. Getting clearer about my life’s mission. Figuring out what I’m good at. Learning to encourage myself. THESE ARE ALL GOOD INTENTIONS. If you aren’t clear on your intention or not even clear about a goal; start with courage and faith in yourself. Decide that your goals will be for the courage and faith you will need to win at your goals while developing happiness no matter what. And move forward with the intention of building deep faith in all the untapped potential you have in yourself which reveals itself during the most crucial moments of your journey. You don’t have to have all the answers before you start. This way you will develop more clarity in who you are and become absolutely able to determine a clearer direction and path to take eventually. Remember, true success is different from external success and in this lifetime you will have both. Because internal happiness is the success from which all other successes stem from - if all you've done today is tended to your heart, you have actually accomplished 10,000 things. All other tangible successes are manifestations of this one true success, your happiness. The secret to true success, then, is to use your goals, desires and all the challenges that come with it to breakthrough into expanded levels of yourself. Revealing the best parts of yourself along your journey adds richness to mundane things, and transforms even the most hellish circumstances into victories. This brings us to the end of today's podcast. If you liked this, stay tuned for the next one as we get you closer and closer to all your life changing breakthroughs. Remember, your personal happiness is for the sake of world peace, so your life's mission must comes first! Love you guys! I'll catch you soon.