How do you master “Success”?? There’s an age old question if I ever heard it before… But, seriously, there are ways. It starts with Time. Don’t try to be pushy, thinking you can get there right away, and 2), it all about perspective. One person might think “Success” is waking up in the morning, and another may think “Success” is swimming in a pool with Millions of dollars in it.
So, on that note, don’t think of “success” as a destination per se, but more of a journey.
Okay, so pick an area of your life… Choose from these options:
- Personal
- Professional (Career/Business)
- Health
- Relationships (Professional/Personal/Family)
- Service to Others
- Financial
- Spiritual
In actuality, you could probably make up more, but for the sake of this example, just use this list. It’s about as broad as you can get without getting too deep.
Most people would like to have success in each of these areas, but at the same time, view “success” as only money or career based options. When you focus on only money and career based options, you will let other areas of your life go to the hounds. Such as your family, your health, your spiritual life…
This creates an unbalance in life, and the unbalance can cause stress. If you are stressed out over money and finances, and you worry about your family, you aren’t really “successful”
In workshops past, I have described ‘success’ as being “a genuine balance of achievement in all areas of your life that are important to you”… I’ve also described it as being, “a gradual and ever continuing sense of achievement in all areas of life”…
Choose your poison, whichever one suits you best… OR, come up with your own definition. Either way, don’t let anything stand between you and your happiness. When it comes down to it, its really just how happy you are in life, and how content you are with the people and relationships you have…
July 25th, 2010 at 5:12 pm
Matt, this is really great information, thank you for putting it out… will you have a more in depth look at this in the future? It’s good info, but still kind of vauge… Thanks!
July 25th, 2010 at 5:15 pm
Thanks for the comments, TJ… I do have more information, they are posted throughout the blog, so just poke around to find what you need. Every now and then, I will be letting you know about some of our audio products and so forth… don’t worry, you will be taken care of!