What is success?
I mean what is success to YOU?
The meaning of success varies with anyone you talk to the same applies to failure – what does failure mean to you?
If you believe that success is having a lot of money, then you’re more than likely setting yourself up for failure.
So many people beat themselves up because they don’t think that they are successful but what I want you to do is sit down and truly understand what the word success means to you.
Does it mean:-
• Being in a mutually supportive relationship?
• Seeing your children living their lives independently?
• What about having a job you enjoy?
• Being able to afford the bills?
• Being able to afford to go on a holiday?
There are lots of ways to measure success and if you tick one of those as far as I am concerned you are successful.
And of course one of the main mistakes that people do is compare themselves to others. We don’t know what goes on behind closed doors, we don’t know what someone else’s bank account is, you may think that the neighbours have this awesome life going on overseas holidays all the time, but what you don’t know is that they are in debt up to their eyeballs with 5 different credit cards all maxed out and they are about to lose their house to foreclosure.
So, have a think about what success means to you and work towards that, not what society dictates or what others have, because when you think of your life I can pretty well guarantee that you are already successful in some ways. And just because you may ‘fail’ at reaching one of your goals doesn’t mean that you are a failure, it means you tried. And that in itself is a success.