7th
November
2008
What will it take for you to feel successful?
posted in Considering goals |
Success is different for everyone. Some people pin their feelings of success to money or job title or size of house or any number of other measures. Success needs to be something that a person strives for. People generally have something that gives them that feeling that they’ve made it.
I wasn’t quite sure what my measure of success would be. I thought that maybe I’d need a particular college degree or level of job or something. What I found, though, for me, is that success is being self-employed and still able to maintain my standard of living. The next level of success I want to achieve is to be a regularly published writer.
Thinking about your idea of success can help you focus your goals or even change them entirely. Think about your peers, perhaps those who you went to high school or college with. Which ones of them seems “successful” to you? What kinds of things that people talk about make you feel that they are successful people? Think then, about what about what they’re doing makes you feel that they’re successful. Is it their job, their lifestyle, their relationships, their living environment?
I have found, doing this activity, that even though, I felt that I need some particular degree or job to feel successful, I noticed that, for my friends, I didn’t consider someone successful by degree or job, but more by amount of flexibility and comfort they had in their lives. That helped me realize that flexibility of schedule, while meeting responsibilities, was more important to me than the other things. It helped me alter my goals somewhat to recognize that I wanted to maintain my level of freedom and flexibility more than I wanted a high paying, high status job title.
Take some time to consider what would make you a success. Does that align with your goals? Is there something you need to alter in your plans to get you on the path to achieving your own idea of success?
