Success Without Goals is the account of Tom Lodge's pre-Awakening experience, an experience while he was still searching, and before he became Umi. Even though he acknowledges that goals do work, he shows how they do not lead to real success. His discovery that goals are unsatisfying, that they create more desires and more needs, set in motion his search for a deeper meaning to life.
His search took him to India and to the feet of the mystic, Osho, where he learned three ancient and effective techniques that lead to happiness, peace of mind and love. He shares these with the reader using anecdotes and a delightful story of the Old Man who guides him into an understanding of the deep roots of his pain and the joy of acceptance and ultimately to the realization that it is possible to have success with goals.