Manage Your Career - What Is Success?
by surepro on 2007-09-23
Everyone in life wants to be a success. Success is a state of mind. You are able because you think you are able!
Different people perceive success differently at different points in their lives. When you are younger you identify success with a high flying career and oodles of disposable income. On the flipside, as you grow older you are more susceptible to fall prey to the fallacy of success being the proportional to your social standing.
Whatever your definition is, it sure is susceptible to change and there's always scope for improvement.
One thing that is common amongst everyone is that everyone wants to be successful and conforms to the fact that there's nothing so fulfilling in life!
Just take time out and think what success actually means to you. Jot down your definition of success in the space below or on a piece of paper. Think hard and think clear. Make sure you are specific.
Do not carry on reading this until you have done so.
If you haven't filled in the above space do it now! Don't cheat yourself! A number of factors influence your definition of success.
How is your definition of success formed?
- Your upbringing
- Your beliefs
- Your traits
- Your attitude
- Your peers
- Society
- The crests and troughs you have been
Subconsciously you have encompassed all of the above factors while putting down what success means to you.
All of the above will contribute as to what success means to you.
Success is not necessarily achieving every goal you set, but how enriched you came out striving to achieve it. Don't shun your mistakes; take them in your stride because these are nothing but valuable life lessons, which in hindsight look like golden words of advice thrown at you by life itself.
There is a myth that states that people are born winners or born losers. Nothing could be further from the truth.
There are techniques, methods and ways of behaving that will enable and help you to succeed. Certain latent attributes can determine whether you will succeed or not. These are not attributes you need to inculcate; we all have them. All you need is a little clarity of thought and voila the revelations will rain in!
You owe it to yourself to get the most out of your life. The worst thing that you can do is to look back in 40 or 50 years time and say, 'I wish I had done this' or 'I wish I had done that'
So don't shy away from treading where your heart is set! Making sure, you are in the right career will solve half of your life's problems.
If you feel life hasn't been too fair with you, don't lose hope it's never too late to make a stint in the marathon called life, just needs a little revving up, and you have come to the right place!
Different people perceive success differently at different points in their lives. When you are younger you identify success with a high flying career and oodles of disposable income. On the flipside, as you grow older you are more susceptible to fall prey to the fallacy of success being the proportional to your social standing.
Whatever your definition is, it sure is susceptible to change and there's always scope for improvement.
One thing that is common amongst everyone is that everyone wants to be successful and conforms to the fact that there's nothing so fulfilling in life!
Just take time out and think what success actually means to you. Jot down your definition of success in the space below or on a piece of paper. Think hard and think clear. Make sure you are specific.
Do not carry on reading this until you have done so.
If you haven't filled in the above space do it now! Don't cheat yourself! A number of factors influence your definition of success.
How is your definition of success formed?
- Your upbringing
- Your beliefs
- Your traits
- Your attitude
- Your peers
- Society
- The crests and troughs you have been
Subconsciously you have encompassed all of the above factors while putting down what success means to you.
All of the above will contribute as to what success means to you.
Success is not necessarily achieving every goal you set, but how enriched you came out striving to achieve it. Don't shun your mistakes; take them in your stride because these are nothing but valuable life lessons, which in hindsight look like golden words of advice thrown at you by life itself.
There is a myth that states that people are born winners or born losers. Nothing could be further from the truth.
There are techniques, methods and ways of behaving that will enable and help you to succeed. Certain latent attributes can determine whether you will succeed or not. These are not attributes you need to inculcate; we all have them. All you need is a little clarity of thought and voila the revelations will rain in!
You owe it to yourself to get the most out of your life. The worst thing that you can do is to look back in 40 or 50 years time and say, 'I wish I had done this' or 'I wish I had done that'
So don't shy away from treading where your heart is set! Making sure, you are in the right career will solve half of your life's problems.
If you feel life hasn't been too fair with you, don't lose hope it's never too late to make a stint in the marathon called life, just needs a little revving up, and you have come to the right place!
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