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The Spiritual Perspective

184: Rethinking Success and Chasing What Truly Matters: A Solo Episode With Light Watkins

The Spiritual Perspective

Light Watkins

Education, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Self-improvement

4.9981 Ratings

🗓️ 6 December 2023

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

By society’s standards, success largely refers to playing the game of capitalism. But what does being successful truly mean to you? This episode is dedicated to exploring what it means to live a more fulfilled, more successful life. We touch on self-realization as a mechanism for creating your personal definition of success, questions to ask yourself to determine whether or not you are in alignment with your values, and the role of comfort and helping others in producing fulfilling lives.&nb...

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0:00.0

When I look at the challenges and the hardships in my own life right now, I can start to see them through a new lens.

0:10.0

Instead of looking at them as things that are holding me back from being successful,

0:16.1

I can now look at them as the means by which I'm going to access a new level of potential because I got to figure this out. I got to figure out how to navigate this health challenge or this financial challenge or this emotional challenge or this emotional challenge or this relational challenge

0:36.0

and in the process of figuring it out

0:39.0

probably going to have to read some books,

0:41.0

I'm going to have to call some people, I'm going to have to watch some videos, I'm going to have to call some people I'm going to have to

0:43.1

watch some videos I'm going to have to give some talks I'm going to have to put

0:46.6

myself in some very uncomfortable situations and then through that process though I'm going to discover some things about myself

0:56.0

that I never would have discovered otherwise and that's where that expansive feeling happens. I call it the spiritual pump.

1:07.0

Hey friend, welcome back to the Light Watkins show. I'm Light Watkins and normally I interview ordinary folks just like you and me who take an extraordinary leaps of faith in the direction of their path, their purpose, or what they've identified as their mission in life.

1:22.0

And in doing so, they've been as their mission in life.

1:23.1

And in doing so, they've been able to positively impact

1:26.4

and inspire the lives of many other people

1:29.6

who've either heard about their story

1:31.1

or who witness them in action or people who've directly benefited from their work.

1:36.7

And today I have another solo episode for you. I'm not going to lie, these solo episodes are definitely more difficult for me because it's just me sitting in a room talking to myself while staring at my computer camera which is not very natural but but oddly enough, these solo episodes are also more popular than my interviews.

1:57.5

So that was interesting to see when we looked at the data.

2:00.5

And it just goes to show that you can't tell what people resonate with more based purely

2:06.2

on how you personally feel about it.

2:10.3

It's good to be able to track and measure the outcomes of whatever actions we're taking.

2:15.3

So I'll keep putting out these solo episodes if that's what you all are enjoying the most.

2:21.2

It's not that I don't have something relevant to say I do. It's just a bit

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