Take a moment and consider how you define success. My success revolves more around preparing them for the world than amassing a dragon’s hoard of cash. ![]() I have gone from cave-man bread winner, through life-mate, to father and mentor. Now that I have kids, my definition of success has changed again. But I did learn from the experience, and the next time, I managed to achieve success in that field as well. I was not prepared for that, and I was not very successful. Success now had an inter-personal dimension. The yardstick of money was no longer an end onto itself, but a way of measuring professional development. Was my raise better than the average? If so, it implied that I was doing better than my average peer, so I was being successful in my career. Then, it was chasing the raises and the promotions. And the transition from starving college kid to having a paycheck was similarly amazing, as I actually had money left over at the end of the month! WooHoo! I was a success! They were actually paying me money to do what I enjoyed doing. When I was fresh out of school, I was amazed. But how much time have you put into thinking about it? Have you ever considered what you value, and what beliefs you have about success? Have you looked back at how your definition of success has changed over the years? What must that kind of life be like? Do they really like themselves, what they do, and how they do it? Perhaps they have slightly different values.įor most of the rest of the world, success is fairly well defined. While I doubt that kind of person would read this kind of blog, you’ve probably met one or two people who are like that. What does a person need to do, be, or have, in order for you to consider them successful? If it involves being invited to the “must go” party of the year, might I suggest you reconsider your definition? The first thing you will have to do is figure out what the term ‘success’ means to you. ![]() If being on the cover of a magazine is part of your definition, I would ask if you are trying to be successful for your sake, or to impress others? Is that really being successful? Can you do all that, and still like yourself, what you do, and how you do it? Be careful how you define success, lest you trap yourself. But sadly, in many of them, the definition is becoming centered around how much money one can get, or how one chooses to spend it.ĭo you have to have a certain kind of car, or live in a certain neighborhood to be successful? Is that really a proper definition of the term? Or can one be a success without first making a million dollars, a private jet, or a top-end sport-luxury car? I realize that the definition, and even scale, of success is different in other cultures and places. That may be important as a business, but is it truly a good definition, a proper or fitting description, of success? ![]() Why is properly defining success important?įar too many people define success in terms of cash flow, or as a surplus of cash at the end of an accounting period. Even if the results of your efforts are a bit lacking, there is still much about which to be happy. However, when we have all three, when we like who we are, what we do, and how we do it, it’s hard not to consider ourselves successful. If that was the norm, rather than the exception, it would be hard to consider ourselves a success.Įven if we liked ourselves and what we did, but were uncomfortable with how we did it (for legal or ethical reasons), it would be hard to consider ourselves a success. We all have had days, and even jobs, where we really didn’t like what we were doing. But if, on average, we don’t really like ourselves, it would be hard to consider ourselves a success. We all have days when we like ourselves, and then there are days when we don’t. Is this how you define success? We all have at some time.
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