10 Ways to redefine success

Something tells you it is the moment to review and refine your version of success.  This term has different meanings to different people. Ever ask yourself why this topic comes to your attention right now?  Maybe you are in transition, reflecting on the nature of your accomplishments, feel restless about professional progress or unsure of your current longer term direction.  Whatever it is, the moment is right to devote some time to what success means to you.  Observe how your own version of success is changing with you. 

1. Is success about meeting a deadline?

2. Is success about goal-setting, planning, and working toward short-term goals? 

3. Is success about giving yourself  the freedom to to help others reach their version of success?

4. Is success a moving target, always reched for but rarely if ever achieved?

5. Is success about shadowing mentors/ inspirations or drawing their qualities out of yourself?

6.  Is success a state of mind that you nurture or train inside to carry with you?

7.  Is success finding ways to be happy where you are, to love something about what you do?

8. Is success about soul-searching? Finding that perfect relationship  or situation?

9. Is success some combination of the above?

10. Is success something else? 

"My definition of success is fulfillment of your soul's purpose." -Jack Canfield

Comments

[Bern]

Apparently, success is a definition that people program into their lives. Success is a belief that the masses have adhered to since being a toddler. Parents project success and failure onto the infant. The child was successful at standing or unsuccessful because it fell. Success is a label that sticks to most in any given situation. If one is successful at ripping off the label of success, then one is naked to the adherence of what Just Is.

[Liara Covert]

Hi Bern, appreciate your comment. A parallel view is that nothing holds any meaning unless we create or adopt it. Like perception, any meaning can be discarded or allowed to dissolve as one expands or vibrates above and beyond it. This is also called surrendering or letting go of what one outgrows. At some stage success is felt as innate not something to work toward.