When you think of success, what comes to mind? One might say success is bringing home lots of money. Another might say that success is feeling like you’re satisfied. A third person may disagree and say that success is feeling consistently productive and accomplished. Or that you’re lucky. Or that you’re happy without a worry in the world. What elements comprise your recipe for success, and how do you define it?
I leveraged my large community of Twitter followers to get a sense of how people define success. Even in this economy, the collective decided that if you’re happy, you’re successful.
@tamar loving what you do; doing what you love, and making enough money to sustain it.
@tamar When I walk in the front door each night, if I have the ability to smile & the energy to cook dinner after working all day… SUCCESS
@tamar Success: Feeling satisfied with who you are and where you are without apathy or complacency while positively affecting others.
@tamar I also like: "Success is a multidimensional destination of continuous improvement" also from my book. Send the link 2 ur blog.
@tamar "Success is to be ready when the opportunity comes" – I mentioned this in my book "Connecting My Dots"
@tamar Success is health, happiness, joy, prosperity, harmony and inner peace
@tamar Being able to do what makes you happy, comfortably, for the maximum amount of time.
@tamar Success = Being Happy with your journey with an eye on your destination
@tamar or to put it another way, being at the point where you’re content with your life
@tamar having what you want, and wanting what you have, and not lusting after anything else
@tamar At the end of the day, being able to fully say that I’m happy and have no regrets.
@tamar success is pursuing your interests and activities on your own terms rather than at the whim of others
@tamar: "The most practical, beautiful, workable philosophy in the world won’t work – if you won’t." – Zig Ziglar
@tamar "Success is knowing ur creating a career based on ur passionate interests, helping people succeed, and leaving a legacy of peace
@tamar success is waking up in the morning. everything else is cake.
What About You?
Lateral Action readers, what have you achieved when you feel successful? Do you find that you are reaching success on a consistent basis? Share your tips in the comments!
About the Author: Tamar Weinberg is Lateral Action’s Associate Editor. Tamar is a former contributor to Lifehacker and displays her skills as a social media maven at her blog Techipedia.
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« Previous 1 2Success is...whatever you want it to be. No matter what I say here in my comments, it won't be right or wrong, because each person relates to it differently. To me, success is living life and not simply existing.
Thanks for the eye-opener Tamar!
Cheers,
Glen
Success is doing what I love to achieve my personal goals, while enriching myself, making new friends and enjoying along the way.
Success: losing everything and still having the will to take it all back.
Success is having a vision and a sense of purpose and manifesting that vision in reality. It's the feeling of accomplishment and mastery that you get from being able to create your own life to include love, family, health, friendship, meaningful work, community and enough resources. And of course, gratitude to spirit for making all those things possible!
I mean no ill will to the people who supplied those definitions, and perhaps it had something to do with the way the question was framed, but... Count how many of those answers present success as a lifestyle outcome and checking off items on the self-fulfilment to-do list. Then count how many describe it in terms of making a contribution to others around them or making a difference to the way the world works. Hmmm.
for me success means not compromising integrity and also success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.
Success is not to be measured by the position one may have attained in life but by the obstacles one managed to overcome.
After hard work I can still manage a smile its sucess for me. Seeing my children and my hubby doing well in the life is a success for me. Bringing a smile on the face of others is a success for me