the meaning of success
What is success? What does it mean to you? This is the first question I ask my clients for two reasons. First, success means something else to everybody and its important that we are aiming for the same goal . Second, without a definition of success how can we feel successfull, especially if success to you is a small accomplishment. So what does it mean to you? Is it defined in monetary terms? A quality of life? Leaving a legacy for your family? Society? Reaching a certain goal? Or is it at the end of the day knowing you did everything you had planned on. How do you feel when you have reached success? And more importantly and sometimes not too flaterringly, why is that your definition of success? If your success is monetary, why? What are you doing with it? And when you get to the very last why, that will tell us who we truly are. Don't misunderstand me, there's nothing wrong with enjoying the good life, and feeling good about our accomplishments but to truly feel successfull, to have that need totally filled, we have to succeed at that final "why". That final why may be self serving and selfish but as long as we are honest about the why and understand it , only then can we feel truly successfull.