What is the key to success? That's a question that we may ask ourselves every day during some periods of our lives. In this article, I will discuss what one of the secret ingredient might be and how to go about finding it.

Then again to the question what is the key to success, a lot of people will answer: “money”. Because in our minds, money is equated to happiness, freedom, and lots of other things.

But what is money? Money is energy. And in fact most of the time it's not really the money that we want, but how it makes us feel. We want the essence, the qualities of what we want to buy with the money. For instance, if you want to have an expensive car like a Jaguar, it's probably because you want to feel powerful, distinguished, sophisticated, in control. The truth that we don't realize is that with a vivid imagination and determination, we can have these feelings even before getting the Jaguar.

Feelings and thoughts are very important according to the Law of Attraction. If you remember, the Law of Attraction states that you get what you focus on.

In contrast to the above example of the Jaguar, what comes to your mind when you think about having “enough” money? You are in fact thinking about “not having enough money”. This is a feeling of lack that frequently brings with it deep down feelings of fear and/or discomfort while you are speaking or thinking.

Feelings of fear, feelings of discomfort are of a low vibrational nature that will keep money away from you. Feelings that are of a “low” vibrational nature like worry, sadness, are obviously not a match in vibration (or frequency) with the nature of what you want. Which is most of the time things that bring you happiness, joy, peace, love (which are the feelings that have high frequencies and allow you to attract easily what you want).

There is a popular saying that says that:

“Success is not the key to happiness, Happiness is the key to success”

This is essentially what Esther and Jerry Hicks, two best selling authors who write books on the Law of Attraction talk about in Ask and It is Given (Learning to Manifest your Desires) when they stress the power and importance of feeling good now, in the present moment.

You have to be happy with where you are at in your life now in order to make changes successfully. Even if you are currently temporarily broke, alone and stuck in a 9 to 5 job that you hate. You have to know and believe that it's a situation that can change very quickly if you are able to pull yourself up and reach a state of happiness no matter what is going on in your every day life externally. I know it's not easy, but it's very possible if you include this secret ingredient that I'm talking about. This is coming from someone who had the experience.

At one point in my life, during the worst part of the recession, I lost my job , and not having much savings, my car was repossessed. I was sick from the stress at work that had led me to resign. Despite all that I focussed intensely on the one thing that brought me feelings of joy: the fact that I was no longer in a 9 to 5 job having to put up with a boss that I disliked. I decided to focus on the fact that without a car I would have to walk more which meant that I exercised more (I needed to lose some pounds anyway).

By keeping focused on these happy feelings, 2 months later I started a job that I found by “accident” when I called a former boss. And I was able to rent a sporty red little car (that made me feel really great) at a very big discount. What I'm trying to say is that you have to know and believe that things can change very quickly and not remain in a state of being miserable and depressed.

Finally once more, to the question what is the key to success, I will answer that being on a spiritual development path helps tremendously with this process of being happy all the time. Applying the Law of Attraction is something that is done very naturally when you learn to be more spiritual in your daily life. It is very likely the secret ingredient that you've been looking for.