What Is The Best Definition Of Success?
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What Is The Best Definition Of Success?
“Be the change you want to see” – Gandhi. “The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice it is conformity” – Earl Nightingale. Conformity is not the only way to live. You need to think and do things differently. You must critically question your life, your surroundings, and your actions. Dreamhouse, dream car, or dream life? No dream possession is worth more than living your dream life.
You have the power and autonomy to create and control the life you want, based on your dreams and fulfillment, rather than the belief that your life is controlled by luck or destiny. Always optimize your time for happiness, it’s about making intentional choices.
So, What Is Success?
Most of us associate success with the achievement of the desired outcome. A result. But success is actually a process. The journey towards our objectives.
According to the famous American motivational speaker and author Earl Nightingale, “Success is anyone who is doing deliberately a predetermined activity because that’s what he or she decided to do deliberately”. Once again, the importance of knowing exactly what you want to do with your life is paramount for being successful.
Success is doing deliberately all or any combination of; financial, spiritual, mental, physical, and social/emotional estates.
“Success is not the result of making money, making money is the result of success” – Earl Nightingale.
“No matter how many setbacks you have had or how long it will take to get there, you are a success as long as you know where you are going.” -Sandy Gallagher
Realizing this is liberating. Success does not have to be a ‘mystery’ that so many are looking for all their lives…
Why Do Some Succeed And Others Fail?
One interesting fact is that successful people appear to continue to be successful. This is because they have built habits that some of us do not have.
What habits? Here you have some examples from the famous author of Think and Grow Rich, Napoleon Hill:
- Conscious thinking: Being aware of what you think and consciously feeding the right thoughts.
- Goal definition: Having a clear picture of what you want or what Hill calls “having a definite purpose”.
- Burning desire: This refers to the constant intensification of the intangible force to transform ideas into physical realities.
- Overcoming fears: Fear paralyzes growth and development.
- Imagination and creativity: That is the starting point for producing ideas and come up with a plan to acquire what you wish.
- Auto-suggestion: Faith that you will receive what you ask for.
- Decision: A firm determination to do everything it takes to attain your goal.
- Seek for knowledge: Knowledge is only potential power. It only becomes power when, and if, it is organized into action plans and guided toward an end.
- Positive emotions and relations: Focusing on what is under your control, letting go of those things that can’t be controlled, and fostering meaningful relationships with like-minded people.
- Take action: Because ideas and plans can’t be materialized without action.
- Persistence: The habit of finishing what you begin, even in presence of defeat and failure.
The good news is anybody can learn new habits. Sit down and map out a plan to get control of your habits. Remember that some problems are self-created; you must learn to avoid them. Some barriers must be overcome to change. Don’t protect your ego.
To close, success is all about IDEAS and DESIRE -the starting point of all achievement- DECISION, PLAN, and ACTION -the mastery of procrastination- PERSISTENCE, and CONTINUED IMPROVEMENT–to overcome indifference- and YOUR MIND and THOUGHTS –to create good habits.
Some inspirational quotes to make you think more about it:
- The key to success and the key to failure, “We become what we think about” – Earl Nightingale. We must control our thoughts. Your limitations are self-imposed. “The only limitations are those we set up in our minds” – Napoleon Hill
- “Don’t create a life where you are going to regret working too hard.”-Bronnie Ware.
- “It’s more about who you have to be and how you have to think, instead of what you have to do.”-Robert Kiyosaki.
- “What you GET in life depends on what you DO. What you DO in life depends on how you SEE the world around you”. “In order to change a given situation, we must change ourselves, and in order to change ourselves, we must be able to change our perceptions. We all want to succeed” -Stephen R. Covey.
- “Many people lead insufficiently meaningful lives because they hold wrong suppositions about meaningful lives, or endorse perfectionism, or accept arguments suggesting that life can never be meaningful”. “People should aim at both finding and creating meaning” -Iddo Landau
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