Eckhart Tolle's Top 10 Rules For Success:
1. Take the small steps that lead to greatness.
It's the small steps.
When the writing happens, there's a notepad and a pen, there's the present moment, and there's a stillness.
I'm just true to this moment, what this moment requires.
By being true to this small moment, something great arises.
2. Enjoy the journey.
I'd rather be here now.
Most of your life is the journey. The arriving is relatively rare, the marriage, graduation.
Yes, of course you know you are going that way but this step is still to be enjoyed.
Ultimately, your whole life consists of the step you're taking at this moment.
3. Find satisfaction in your work.
My identity wasn't derived from that anymore (failure / success).
It's a cheap substitute for who I really am.
The work that is happening, the teaching that is happening is transforming people's lives, that's very satisfying. I don't get any personal satisfaction though, because I don't feel it as this separate me produced it.
4. Ask the right questions.
It's very easy to mistake an impulse that comes to you for some deeper answer that comes out of the stillness.
Any decision-making process you have.
On one level facts are need to be looked at. What is the situation? Sometimes facts are not clear enough or you don't have enough facts, and you become still, and see what questions you can ask? Somebody may be able to supply more detailed facts.
But in order to ask the right question, you already need a moment of stillness.
The first step as you become alert and still is another question.
A very important thing in decision making process is not to come up with a decision but to ask the right question, that can elicit what you need in order to arrive at a decision. And in order to ask the right question, there needs to be that alert stillness for a moment and in that alert stillness you kind of listen within and then a question comes.
5. Your inner purpose.
Inner purpose is, aligning your life fully with the present moment, so that you are no longer out of alignment with the present moment, which leads to the state of dissatisfaction that we talked about that is the reality for many people.
You cannot go beyond the state of dissatisfaction through some future goal that says one day I would like to be in a state of fulfilment or satisfaction. No.
You have to enter the state of fulfilment and satisfaction by becoming one internally with the present moment.
You inner purpose is that alignment with where you are right now, even if it doesn't look like the life purpose you want for the next 30 years. Whatever you are doing now, to be total in doing it, no matter what it is, to be true to life, by being true to this moment.
6. Direct your attention.
7. Be compassionate with yourself.
Be compassionate with yourself, because no human being can act beyond their level of consciousness.
8. Don't get stuck in unhappiness.
9. Contribute to a better world.
10. Change your state of consciousness.
Be still meaning go that place where the mind is no longer operating, you are just conscious without thinking, and that is the level where the eternal resides.
Bonus: Don't waste your life energy.
