WHAT IS SUCCESS?
What is success to you? Who defines it? Do you consider yourself successful at the moment? Who do you consider successful? You see, this and many other questions would show the influence or impact of your environment on you. The environment influences a host of things we do, say or think.
What a man hears or sees garbage in garbage out influences what he does. What was your growing up like? Who are your parents? Who are your friends? A couple of all these factors influence and affect in the long run the decisions you make in life which accumulates into who you become.
Owww…. So the saying goes, “You cannot eat what giants eat and remain a dwarf” Errm sometimes you could ooooo if you do not deal with some issue in your foundation of self. A lot of individuals, in fact we all, have one area we are trying to improve on either consciously or unconsciously. However, these habits would not stop until you take a conscious effort.
WHO DEFINES SUCCESS?
URRM… ‘What is success to you and who defines it?’.
Understanding we are all from different backgrounds hence, we all have different parents obviously. Our parents in one way or the other defined success to us a long time ago either when you were in primary school or high school. So let me paint this scenario, my parents are academics and thus they instilled three principles in me independence, academic excellence and the strength of a good character. They make statements like,
“So when you become a professor, you would….”
They created the idea of what success means to me as being a professor, having a social recognition and prestige as well as the prestige of a profession. Thus, I lived out that life until I came to discover the true meaning of success.
WHAT IS SUCCESS?
Success could either be internal or external. How? You may ask. Success could either come from an internal knowing or an external factor. For the external form of success, people give you recognition and respect for the status you occupy either as a renowned author or medical doctor or what have you.
Several individuals have characterized success to mean finishing university at 24 or 25 and getting a good job immediately and marrying at 30 would identify a 27 year old medical doctor married to an accountant with a son as highly successful. However, would you consider a mason (bricklayer as it is popularly called in Nigeria) whose only success in life (at 60) years is building four houses for his four children and perhaps the one he lives in; as successful?
Success could also come from an internal sense of fulfilment as the case of the mason.
However, growing up in Nigeria has not afforded a lot of us to consider this as being a measure of success as money is the clear indicator of success to the majority. However, success often times comes from within not what you have in your possession.
Success comes from a place of fulfilment not necessarily societal recognition. However, achieving this success comes from merging your personal traits with career.
What do I mean? Understanding self and looking for means of commercializing your personality into what enriches your pocket for sustainability.
We do not all have to live by the societal expectations of what success means but we can create success for ourselves.
Since everything can be created,
CREATE YOUR OWN SUCCESS!
Follow the principles not the standards.
Understand the Y’s and how to go about the “HOW’S”
LIVE HAPPILY! YOU CAN BE SUCCESSFUL.
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