How Do You Define Success?
In the feel-good ledger of life, there are many emotional barometers in which you can measure success and while each may differ from person to person, there seems to be a common thread that binds them all to each other. However, the one common factor that binds successful people together is the fact whether they can back up their claims of success, or the often used phrase “walk the walk, talk the talk”. How can you measure success? Well, there isn’t a specific way, but from speaking to many people, you do find certain things that resonate with each other. This article will try its best to make that measurement tangible, and hopefully something you can reach to and measure yourself up to, wherever you may be in your life in this day and age.
One way of telling that you’ve found success is a sense of completion or contentment; when you finally rest on your laurels and find that there is nothing left that you desire to achieve. And not in a bad way. You look at life in a different perspective, in a different light; you would feel at peace with yourself knowing that there is nothing else you need to do to prove your worth to the world. Success is the measure of ambition and once both have reached their peak and there is no mountain to climb or ocean to traverse, the spirit relaxes and the mind slips into an almost meditative state of bliss. This is something that can be seen in the eyes of those who succeed, from their measured dialogue, their contented smile, the easy way that they choose to sit and how they treat others around them. There is no longer a need to size up competition and ruminate about life - it has given all it can and now is the time to waft with the waves to that final destination.
There are others who choose to measure success in terms of the material, in how much money they have made, how many acquisitions they have brought with them, the awards on their shelf, the badges pinned to their shirt. These are some of the ways that a population will measure their success with. The world as we know it will reward you in some way spiritual or material, and while the former might be noble, we cannot avoid that the human spirit will seek solace in the things they can touch and feel, the things that shine and have their named engraved upon. Even a pat on the back, a hand shake, an awards ceremony or an elegant letter - these are some things that life and our careers can reward us with.
Success comes in many forms and each person has a different way of how they have made their mark in life, in their careers and in the things that they treasure most to them. How they want to display it to the world and what feelings these measures of success give them. At the end of the day, we all need to look into ourselves and determine what we deem as our own personal definition of success.
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