Components of success

Success asks who am I willing to become again and again and again.

I find that I struggle when I start to measure from the stick that society places before me.

A stick that measures success in increments that I have never felt inline with.

Instead, when I turn my mind to what really matters, I find I can quieten the noise and settle into the warmth of what success looks and feels like for me.

Angitūtanga (success) is when I find myself doing what I am meant to.

When my mind and motion are inline and the outcomes are placing me within places I need to be.

It is when I am interacting with people who carry their own flow, their own grace and wish to combine to craft things greater than ourselves.

It is when I feel my tūpuna within the souls of my feet and in the tips of my fingers - reaching forward and giving me standing to do what is needed to be done

It is when I hear the voice of my moko and feel her breathe carry across centuries of Hau - combining her with her past and forming the next 

It is when I feed people from my kete of words and nourishment

When I see their inner person present themselves and their shoulders drop to a level that can release the stresses they carry.

Success are the tears released when someone feels mauri within spaces I have had a hand in crafting

Watering the next and allowing them to feel the memories of their past and the steps to their futures

It is when I grasp my own words and breath 

The flow that has gone out and come back to me allowing my inner self to have the fortitude to provide

It is when money settles with my hands and asks to be distributed for workers wages, community care and within my own bounds.

It is the expansion of concepts so more souls are touched and the understanding of the importance of whenua is spread. 

It is all these things and more 

For success is a prism of many interfaces and forms that enable its light to touch as many as  it can.

It has more grace than a manufactured stick forged from Hands who wish to control narratives and nations. 

I much prefer to see and feel it as a light that emanates over many and asks us to keep becoming the people we are meant to be.