What Is Success?
Success is
Living Joyfully
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What is success, really? Is it a big fat paycheck,
and an impressive job title? Is it a beautiful
home and a flashy car? Is it an enviable
relationship and bright children? Is it a wall full
of awards and diplomas?
While all of these things are great if you want
them, and they may constitute part of your
personal experience of success, none of them
truly provide a substantial answer to the
question of what is success.
The points that follow offer my beliefs on the
subject of what is success.
There are many
aspects to success, but most of them are much
more about the feelings, and less about the
physical manifestations.
The materialization of
everything that represents a successful life is
simply a natural result of the feelings of success
and fulfillment that are created and sustained. It
is impossible to maintain a feeling of enormous
well-being, without life reflecting that feeling
back to us in the form of circumstances and
events.
Success is a journey. Many people believe that
when they reach a certain point, they will be
successful and happy. In fact, success is more
about feeling great on the way to that place, as
when we get there, we find that the majority of
the joy and satisfaction was in the travel, not in
the getting there, and we then immediately
begin planning the next destination and the
next.
Success is a mental attitude. If you feel
successful, you are. It’s as simple as that. There
are people who have achieved enormous wealth
and acclaim, but don’t enjoy it, worry it may
disappear, or feel that it is not enough. These
people are not successful.
Then there are
people who feel enormous satisfaction from
doing simple tasks, and living in ways that
others may consider to be less than ideal. These
people have discovered one of the most
important answers to ‘what is success?’ Of
course these are simply examples; there are also
people with great material success who truly
are successful because they love their lives.
The
circumstances are far less relevant to whether
or not a person is successful than having the
feelings of joy and success.
Success is a way of living joyfully.
If you are
experiencing substantial joy in each and every
day, no matter what you are doing, and you are
making a point of spending time doing as many
things as possible that encourage that feeling of
joy, then you are successful.
If you are having
this experience in your life, then you really don’t
need to ask ‘what is success?’ You know!
Success is as individual as you are. There is
no one way to live a successful life. As the idiom
goes, ‘One man's meat is another man's poison.’
What feels like enormous success to someone
else may be completely different than what
constitutes success for you. It doesn’t matter
what anyone else thinks or does.
The only way
to experience true success is to focus on living
your life in the way that feels really good to
you.
Success is taking one small step forward at a
time, and doing it continuously. When you
are consistently doing things that are moving
you in the direction you want to go, you are
already experiencing an important part of the
answer to ‘what is success?’ In creating steady
momentum and consciously journeying along
your path, you are living your life as it is meant
to be lived.
Success is making today as good a day as you
can. A big part of success is to make the very
best of whatever is happening in your life right
now. At times, when things are tough, maybe
the best that you will be able to do is to get
through the day with the hope that things are
going to get better. If this is as good as your day
can feel right now, then that is enough.
That is
success, and this effort will create momentum
which will make it easier to find better and
better feelings, and allow better and better days
to follow. As the saying goes, ‘the better it gets,
the better it gets,’ so getting onto this positive
cycle represents success and will lead to more
and more success.
Success is making one thing in your life just a
little bit better than it was yesterday. Making
practical changes in your life; slowly and
gradually, one step at a time puts you firmly on
the path of living a successful life.
Success is following your heart. When you
trust the guidance of your intuition, and allow
yourself to move in the direction that it is
leading you, regardless of the opinions of
others, you are profoundly living the answer to
what is success?
Success is a choice, and in every moment that
you choose to listen to your deep inner
knowing, and to keep moving forward
persistently and joyfully, success is yours.
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