You made it! Many people will recite what worked for them; be careful. FILE PHOTO | NMG
Is it success having all of your material needs met and a family that hates you?
Money
is not everything, they say. So, success may just be developing an
angel’s heart and winning over your people who would die for you anytime
anywhere even if it means struggling financially.
How about love, family, friends, a career or enterprise that is enjoyable and abundantly rewarding?
There
is no single person, thing or place that can, on its own, be defined as
success. No one person can universally define success. This,
unfortunately, also means that no one can say for sure what it takes to
succeed.
Parents, teachers, managers and mentors can
attempt to help. It will generally be with regard to a particular
manner, subject, work or profession.
This is not necessarily bad news. Think about it; if no one
really knows what success is, we really have no business spending
valuable time and many sleepless nights worrying about achieving or not
achieving it.
A
few elevated people can articulate what success is for them and know
what it took to achieve the success they experience. Most have no idea
how success can be defined beyond material possessions and are less
likely to attempt a two-sentence tutorial on how others can achieve it.
If they did, it would be a guess.
This is the reason we spend a lot of of time pursuing success as defined and described by others.
“Success is the progressive realisation of a worthy ideal,” said Bob Proctor.
This
means that success is not an event. It is a continuous experience. It
is not something we chase after. It is an experience. Success is not a
tangible achievement. It is an ideal that the more conscious of us
endeavour live up to — one that must be worthy of us and not the other
way round. Simple.
Unfortunately, we spend our lives
regurgitating people’s definitions trying to achieve by others’ methods.
My ideals are not necessary yours.
I, therefore,
cannot define success for or to you and vice-versa. It follows,
therefore, that I cannot teach, guide or mentor you on success and
vice-versa. That said, to make a spirited attempt at helping you to
succeed, it is imperative that I understand what your ideals are and
work with you to articulate them. Together, we would then evaluate and
audit your everyday experiences against your ideals.
From
here, we can only take one course of action: eliminating the negative
variances between experiences and your ideals by establishing a modus
operandi based on the realisation of YOUR ideals. The material wins that
you are likely to enjoy are simply by-products of living your ideals.
Here’s to your success.
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