If I were to ask you, “how do you feel about success?” What would be your response? Most people would say, I feel great about success, I want success, I deserve success, I am working towards success. Why?.
Because most of the people on this planet feel that success is a good thing. When they think of success they think of benefits, they think of happiness and they think of accomplishment. Certainly success can be all of these things.
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Now here’s a personal question, what is success?
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You see success comes in many forms and your concept of success might not be the same as mine. If you want to be successful in your life, then the very first thing you should take is to write down what success means to you.
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To some people success means earning a lot of money. In fact society seems to gauge success primarily by how much money a person earns. But society’s definition of success is not only a generalization – it is also quite limited. Many so-called successful people are very unhappy in their personal life. Tell me this…
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Is that really success?
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Having a personal definition of what success means to you and then setting goals accordingly is the only way to achieve meaningful success. Striving for success according to somebody else’s standard or definition may win you the admiration of others, but will it bring you a sense of personal accomplishment.
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If you want to succeed on a level that makes you feel truly satisfied, then I encourage you to take the time right now, write down your definition of personal success. Be specific for each area of your life. Think about what it would take financially and emotionally. What kind of relationships would represent success to you?
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Don’t limit your definition of success to just one area. If success sounds good to you, take the first step today. Discover your personal definition of success and write it down .I promise, you will feel more were successful immediately. If you want to turn that definition into a reality, read this page.
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I’ll interpret this post as an honest question…
How do I define success for myself?
Well, there are many steps in my goal of being successful. They are all intertwined, though; if I can’t have one part of my definition of success, then I haven’t succeeded.
For instance, two parts of success, for me, are having a clear conscience and being financially secure. If I have to lie, cheat, or steal in order to have enough money to be secure, then I haven’t succeeded.
Here’s my idea of success:
Honesty
Respect
Financial Security
Being a “sage”
Having a clear conscience
Having unconditional trust from a select few
Gaining the habit of cleaning the litter box out daily
Creating useful tools which others enjoy
Those aren’t in any specific order, except for the order that I thought of them in. Of course, I tend to think of what I view as most important first, and I think that honesty is the cornerstone of so much in our lives. It isn’t just honesty with other people, but it is honesty with ourselves as well. In fact, it is especially honesty with myself that I feel has pushed me the closest to being successful.
Gaining the respect of others is important for me, because I tend to live up to people’s expectations more often than not. If I gain people’s respect, then it is easier for me to do the respectable thing… It’s a system which feeds on itself.
Financial security is important because it removes a lot of temptation from my life. I’ve never heard of a rich man stealing bread.
The less that I have to worry about where my next meal is coming from, the more time I can spend fulfilling the other aspects of success.
Being a “sage” comes back to respect… While I do enjoy being respected for working hard, I realize that my body will probably fail before my mind does. My hips have already gone bad, which prevents me from lifting large weights, so I need to concentrate on gaining knowledge that I can share.
Having a clear conscience is vitally important… It includes both doing things which I know are right, as well as forgiving myself and others of past mistakes, and realizing a mistake for what it really is.
Unconditional trust is put in there instead of love, because it is easy to say that you love someone, but the word ‘trust’ isn’t diluted nearly as much by overuse.
Cleaning the litter box is important to me, because if I can successfully learn that habit, then I can learn (and unlearn) any habit.
Creating useful tools is listed because I’m a programmer. If I can’t write programs that people find useful, then what use am I?
Thanks Adam,
By defining what success is to you personally and taking the time to write it down you automatically move your life in that direction. Hopefully others will follow your example.
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