People often ask me: “Gabriele, what's the secret to success?”. The answer I usually give surprises them because I don't talk about money, career or marketing strategies. I talk about spirituality. And I already know what you're thinking: "What does spirituality have to do with success?". It has everything to do with it, because authentic success is not an external achievement, but the tangible manifestation of an inner enrichment.
Lately, I've noticed something: the more I delve into topics like management or resource management, the more people get lost. Perhaps because we are used to looking for quick recipes, magic formulas. But success is not a formula. It is a process of inner transformation that starts from what we believe in – our creed – and is reflected in what we create in the world.
Why Spirituality Is the Foundation of Success
When I say "spirituality," I'm not referring to esoteric practices or religious dogmas. I'm talking about the animic structure of the human being: that set of ideals, principles and values that form our inner compass. The soul is not an abstract and distant entity; it is the part of us that decides what is right, what is worth pursuing, what makes us proud to exist.
"The body is just a tool. The soul is the pilot."
If the pilot is disoriented, confused, filled with falsehoods, how can it guide us towards prosperity? And here comes the painful point: we have been lied to.
We have been taught to believe that success is linked to dependent work, loyalty to a system, and the accumulation of material goods. But this is a trap. A trap designed to keep us away from the most powerful truth: we are born to thrive in freedom, not to answer to a system.
The Creed: Your Map to Wealth
Imagine your creed as a luminous sphere. Inside it are:
- Values ideals, such as freedom, prosperity, balance with nature.
- Guiding principles, such as honesty, responsibility, courage.
- Rooted values, such as family, brotherhood, respect.
The clearer, more consistent and elevated these elements are, the brighter your sphere shines. And the brighter it shines, the more you attract opportunities, like-minded people, and favorable circumstances. Economic well-being is not the goal, but the consequence of a solid creed. Steve Jobs said it clearly: starting a company just to make money is a mistake. The System rewards those who create value, not those who accumulate.
But then why do so many fail? Because they have a distorted vision of entrepreneurship. They aim for immediate profit, not the creation of lasting value. And above all, because they don't unite.
Unity Makes Strength (and Wealth)
One of the concepts I repeat often – and I do it intentionally, because I know that repetition fixes ideas – is that no one achieves success alone.
The unrestrained individualism that is being propagated to us is another deception. Those who want to keep us divided know that united we are powerful.
We should actively seek out people who share our beliefs. Create communities based on common ideals. Only then can we access resources, skills, and opportunities that we could never achieve alone. And here arises an uncomfortable question: why doesn't anyone tell us these things? Why is it uncomfortable to talk about unity, values, spirituality? It creates enemies. It exposes deceptions.
“The important things are those people don’t like to hear.”
Ideological subversion and the sabotage of values
If you want a technical term to understand what's happening, study ideological subversion, as described by Yuri Bezmenov, former KGB agent. In short: to control a population, brute force is not necessary. It is enough to weaken its fundamental values – such as family, trust, and a sense of community – and replace them with inconsistent ideals. They have convinced us that working more is the solution to our ills, when in fact it is often the cause.
They have taught us to live in a way incompatible with family. To seek fulfillment only in work. To see our neighbor as a competitor, not as an ally. It is a systematic sabotage of our ability to prosper in freedom.
Changing perspective: from workers to creators
Work is losing value with technological progress.
Aiming for “making a living” through a job is a strategic mistake. We should instead become creators of work. Entrepreneurs not in the strict sense of the term, but as creators of value.
A company is not a money-making machine. It’s an extension of our belief system, a tool to contribute to socio-economic progress. If you change this perspective, the results will change. You will start to see opportunities where you previously saw obstacles. You will attract people of value. You will build something that survives beyond you.
Conclusion: Success is a Spiritual Choice
The secret to success, therefore, lies not in a training course or a miraculous investment. It lies in the courage to look inside yourself, to clarify your beliefs, to cultivate high ideals. It lies in rejecting the lies they have told us and joining those who think like us.
If you want to invest in something, invest in your spiritual enrichment. In the knowledge that liberates, in the preparation that strengthens. The rest – well-being, wealth, satisfaction – will come as a consequence. Perhaps not immediately, but it will come. And when it comes, it will be solid, lasting, and allow you to say: “I am proud of how I have lived”.
Ultimately, the question that matters is: do you prefer to continue following a distorted map, or do you have the courage to draw a new one, based on truths that no one else has the courage to tell you?