How do you measure success?

Success is something that gets thrown around all the time. On the internet, 5 ways to become a successful…., 3 ways to be successful, the secret to success, etc. I mean those are all great things, but how do you measure that? Does one person’s “success” really mean it is everyone else’s “success?”

Starting my own blog was a tough decision for me because of the uncertainty. When someone told me that I needed to start a blog to be successful. I always thought, what is successful for me? Is it a “formula” that can drawn up anytime? Is success different for me than you?

The truth is that success is different from person to person. The “formula” is also different from person to person. But there are a couple of attributes that are the same for every successful person. It is not in the goals they set, not the achievements they get, and not the wealth they get from success. The first attribute that is in common for every successful person is how they achieve success.

What do I mean by this? What I mean is that every successful person sets a high goal for themselves and then sets a strategy on surpassing that goal. Then they set a even higher one and go about to achieve. Successful people want to achieve more ang pass more goals they have for themselves. That is what how they achieve success. It is not like they get huge sums of money from it, sometimes they do, but they get some high measure for themselves that equals success.

There is no certain way to achieve those goals. Everyone has different strategies and ways in achieving those goals, but successful people find the right one for themselves to attain the goals. The second is the how they measure success. I know I will have different opinion than some people, but when sets a goal for themselves and achieves it. How is that different than myself?

When someone tells me that they set out to be a professional speaker and own a company and they achieve that goal. Is that much different than me achieving a goal of teaching a high school class because it is what I love to do? I don’t think so because we both set out to achieve a goal and we did. On the outside surface you might think we he/she has more money than you. I would say so what! I found what I love to do and they found what they love to do. We both found success. I am a firm believer that when set a high goal and achieve. Then keep it up by setting more goals and achieving them. That is what success is all about.

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