Soul's Purpose & Success

This is your card reading for Tuesday, May 19th/15.  Your cards dropped together out of the 'Wealth & Wisdom' oracle card deck, authored by my dear friend, Jaden Sterling.  Your cards are 'Soul's Purpose' and 'Success', and Jaden's messages for the cards are:
~Soul's Purpose ~
"Time to align your work with your Soul' purpose.  The Universe is gently nudging you in the direction that will allow your purpose to be revealed.
If you are already doing work that is in alignment with your purpose this card indicates blessings are coming your way.
ACTION:  Ask yourself what you are here to do on earth, look within to discover your purpose and allow for the magic of your purpose to unfold.
Clues to your Soul's purpose can be found in the things you enjoy doing and that make your heart sing."
~Success~
"Drawing this card serves two purposes.  First, it is important for you to know a successful outcome is certain regarding your question and , secondly the Universe knows success can be measured many different ways and you will benefit by expanding how you define success.
ACTION:  In writing, expand on your definition of success.
Progress is achievable, perfection isn't.  Strive for progress and forget perfection.
Success truly is a journey, enjoy your journey as much as possible; life will be so much more fun."

My message for you today is this:
These two cards are perfect to have presented together for you today! 
I appreciate how Jaden refocuses our attention as to how we need to define 'success'.  You may be highly productive and successful and SATISFIED in your life without having acquired accolades or awards.  
Here's a radical idea...SUCCESS is not something that you ACQUIRE, but rather, it is all about your internal PERSPECTIVE!  The absolute deepest sense of SUCCESS occurs when you are in complete alignment with your SOUL'S PURPOSE...which is quite simply the purest expression of who you are as an individual.  And when you are in alignment with your Soul's expression, you automatically draw to you abundance in all ways (including financial) because you are in sync with the Universe...if you allow yourself to RECEIVE! 
Understand that to live your Soul's purpose is NOT only speaking to your chosen career, although that is certainly one aspect of it.  Living your Soul's purpose will more than likely be expressed in a multitude of ways over the course of your physical lifetime.  You will know that you are living 'ON PURPOSE' when you feel the heart-centered warmth and well-being that is LOVE energy.  You can be living your life 'on purpose' while you are engaged in anything that leaves you feeling fulfilled...even the mundane aspects of life...it is not only the grand accomplishments and gestures that are soulful acts. I so appreciate the wisdom in Martin Luther King's quote about just that:
"If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michaelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry.  He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well." 
I know that you have come across people in your lifetime who seem so happy and satisfied in their lives despite living in circumstances that may be judged by others as 'unsuccessful'.
So, do NOT waste your time in comparing yourself to others or in lamenting over your perceived 'lack of achievement' in your life.  Instead, look to what it is that YOU have to offer as an individual to this world that you are living in, and if that is to sweep the streets as only you can, then celebrate that in yourself!  KNOW that what you offer is impactful in ways you cannot even imagine and then strive to reach for the internal feeling of SUCCESS that acknowledges your SOUL'S PURPOSE.  
You are here for a reason---you make a difference and true success is an inside job!
Celebrate yourself today and allow yourself to be embraced by memories of those moments in your life, already, when you felt in alignment and that you were authentically expressing your best self out into the world.  
Blessed be...