How Do You Define Success?

How Do You Define Success? If you ask this question, you will receive various answers because the definition of 'success' will vary from person to person. While a few people may be agnostic towards questions like this, a person may say that he wants to amass wealth within 10 years. So, his view of success is to become rich. Another person may say that they want to climb the rungs of their career ladder and that their success trajectory will end only if they reach the top position in their company. The focus here is career-oriented and not money-oriented. Similarly, there can be as many definitions for the word "success" as there are human beings. 


A study of the lives of highly rich may reveal that not all of them are happy. This means that money cannot get you happiness. If a rich person boasts that he is a heavy-hitter and that he keeps working for 90 or 100 hours a week, what is the use? How can he enjoy his life? He has thrown work-life balance to the wind. He does not have time for his family or friends. We have all come across rich folks whose sons or daughters have gone astray and who lead listless and aimless lives. Can these rich people claim that they are successful?

That is why experts advise that you have to figure out what success means to you. Only then, you will have a clear vision and it will be easy for you to focus on it. Importantly, you will develop a strong commitment to put forth your optimal efforts to achieve the success you are aiming at. But how to go about this process? Let's explore.

1. Ask yourself the most appropriate questions.

Only if you ask the right questions will you get the right answers. If your questions lack clarity or if they are not appropriate, the answers you get will be misleading. This means that your definition of success will be wrong. If this itself is wrong, you will remain committed to wrong goals. All your efforts will go in vain, and ultimately, your aim of achieving success will be defeated. So, if you want to avoid experiencing such disastrous Frankenstein moments, you must not hesitate to seek the help of mentors or experts. 

2. Audit your aim periodically.

This is a "must-do" rule. Things and trends are changing so rapidly that you may get waylaid. So, you may have to tweak your goals according to the changing times. For example, if you have been aiming to become an expert in coding, you may have to change your aim in the present hyper-digital environment because AI or Artificial Intelligence seems to have usurped this job. You should now tweak your aim suitably so that you can become an expert in using AI to come out with coding outputs. While undertaking this tweaking task, you can explore the possibilities of developing your expertise in related fields.

Even if your goal is to amass wealth, you may have to tweak it according to changing times. In the present scenario, millions have been shown the door, and billions are in. So, amassing wealth now is aiming to become a horseshoe for seven-figures or even much more income.

3. Field-test to validate your success goal.

Those who have climbed to the top have always adopted the approach of field-testing their success goals. At the same time, they show the utmost patience while making decisions regarding the results because if they make hasty changes, they may miss out on extraordinary success. Of course, they do not wait indefinitely as well. They give reasonable time, and only if there is an extraordinary delay in getting the results they aim at, they try to make changes. So, you should make it a point to field-test your success goal so that you feel confident that it is a validated one. 

Follow these tips meticulously and they will certainly usher in a successful and fulfilled phase in your life.

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