Understanding Success

Success, a word that has almost as many meanings as the number of people who use the term. It seems that to each person it has a slightly different and personal interpretation.

Yet in the end for most people it boils down to some sort of description that equates to wealth, power or fame.

Errol Flynn, Catherine Hepburn, Madonna, Michael Jackson, Donald Trump, all are names that we equate with success.

It is sought after by everyone, yet has eluded most people.

Why? Could there be different facets of success?

One explanation is that it is hard to become successful. If that were true it would seem that a high price must be paid to get there.

Yet Names like Gandhi, Teressa, and the Dali Lama all list in the names of successful people and therefore belie that thought.

No wealth other than that given away, no power other than the love of others and no fame beyond the accolades we give them for being themselves.

Another more pessimistic though is that success is simply a matter of luck and some folks are just born lucky and therefore are successful by default.

A scary thought at best, but if it were so, how would we explain those people who learn how to be successful and then show the results of their efforts as being consistent with success.

Perhaps we have simply set the definition to unrealistic heights and the expectations of what we define as success and it has therefore become unattainable to us in our own minds.

Could success be as simple as any action or goal achieved, being defined as a success? Maybe success is just not giving up?

Maybe, just maybe success is simply doing something other than watching the world go by and knowing you can do it.

By any description you want to use you are living proof of success just by being here. Out of the tens of thousands of chromosome packets that all vied to fertilize that egg, yours was the one that won out.

Ask yourself... Are you so busy chasing success with no clear idea of what it is that you end up running right by it without even seeing what you are missing?

Have you ever taken account of your goals and evaluated whether they will give you or contribute to your success?

Or have you arrived and just not realized it yet?

If so, stop! Take a deep breath and take charge of your life.
Its your success, you enjoy it.

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Michelle Hoffmann, The 24KaratMarketer Ezine, The MidasTouchMedia Group