What does success mean to you? Is success defined by advancement in your career with a title and large salary/bonus structure or being prosperous in your own business? Are you at your height of success when you achieve major goals that you’ve been working on for years? Are you still successful if you fall short of accomplishing a goal or give up and change course half way through something that started out being important to you? How do you measure success?

When is success defined not by hard work but by how easy something is and does this feel acceptable to you? Do you have to feel honored or acknowledged to feel successful? Does success always require a plan? What about self discipline? Where does personal power fit into the picture of success?

Achieving success can be a combination of the answers you come up with to the questions above. The important thing is to understand just what success means to you and to formulate a plan or a no plan to be creatively in the flow of your own true successes in life. It’s important to feel good about achieving things in life because we feel valuable. Be happy and relish the little things of the present moment because living too much in the future of what will be, or the past of what was, can thwart your being grateful and appreciative for all the successes you are today.

A group of children gave this famous poem to me after teaching them simple ways to be their own life coach. It’s by Ralph Waldo Emerson and I have it framed in the office because it represents my own beliefs and goals for success in this life.

“To laugh often and love much ~ To win the respect of intelligent persons and the affection of children. To earn the approbation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends. To appreciate beauty. To find the best in others. To give one’s self. To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden path or a redeemed social condition. To have played and laughed with enthusiasm and sung with exultation. To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived ~ This is to have succeeded.”

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Great insight buddy, kudos to that, keep it up!

Nice post. Success is the only thing which has importance in peoples life. Many are afraid of failure but failure is part of life.