Success can mean many things to many people.  It’s a little sad to me that most people equate success to the accumulation of wealth.  However, in reality, all sorts of what most people might perceive to be insignificant, are actually huge successes.  Just being born and getting to the age you are is a massive success.  I’m going to share here my thoughts and what I truly believe success to be from my own personal experiences.

I too, just like the masses, truly believed that the only real marker for success, the indicator, the proof that I was a success was either how much money I was making or how much money was in my bank accounts.  What I have found is that it is an absolute lie perpetuated probably from people throughout the ages who wanted and expected us to believe that.  Keep the workers working so to speak.  I think the movie “The Secret” lightly touches on this concept.  If the general workforce truly believed that it was possible for them to be successful outside of their workplace in financial terms, there would be a mass exodus!  At least, that was probably the idea those in power held at the time.  I guess to some extent, that concept still exists today.  Many feel as though they are trapped in a job and not able to earn more than they earn and therefore be a “success”.

The truth of the matter is that we are ALL successful in some form or another.  We only have to realize that success can take on many forms and we will find it everywhere.  We are all successful to getting to the age we have – 100 years ago most of us would not have survived!  Most of us live in households with more than one car – that was just fantasy 50 years ago!  No doubt a great many of you reading this have achieved some height with your career and/or studies.  Just completing a degree of any kind is a success.  Every time you create a meal, you are succeeding.  Just for taking a step outside of the norm to take on something that most people wouldn’t – irrespective of the results – is a success.

What is the Oxford Dictionary definition of success?  “The achievement of an aim; a favourable outcome.”  So can you now see how even the smallest of things can be perceived to be a success?  There are actually 4 different explanations of the meaning of the word success in the Oxford Dictionary and the one I have shared here is the number 1.  Only one out of the four relates to wealth, fame or position.  The third explanation is “a thing or person that turns out well”.  So our kids turning out okay is success.

So today I challenge you – look at everything in your life as a success.  Your home.  Your career.  Your kids.  All of them are successes as indeed you are.  You only need put your attention on them and guess what??  More successes will follow.  Sound simple?  It is.

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