There was a song by Johnny Lee, called “Looking for Love”. It’s about a guy looking for an intangible thing called love that kept escaping him. It goes like this:
I was lookin’ for love in all the wrong places Lookin’ for love in too many faces Searchin’ their eyes, lookin’ for traces Of what I’m dreamin’ of Hopin’ to find a friend and a lover I’ll bless the day I discover, Another heart… lookin’ for love.
Sometimes it seems that just like love, success keeps escaping us. We try, try, try, but we just can’t seem to achieve it.
So the question is: What is success for YOU? There are scores of books and programs out there touting how they can help you become successful. Good information is great, but until you fully define what success is to YOU, it doesn’t matter how many principles you memorize, success will continue to elude you.
Do you link success to your “life’s purpose”? For some, success is related to one’s spiritual belief system. Some believe, it’s determined solely by the individual. While for others, one’s success, particularly the lack thereof is a result of other people’s actions or inaction.
Until you define success for yourself, how will you know you’re successful? Is your degree of success related to acquisition? When you acquire certain things, will that confirm your success? Is success for you measured by your accessibility to tangible assets? Or, is success measured by other people. For example, do you see your level of success in relationship to your parenting or what your team accomplishes at the office?
The savvy professional has a definition of success. This person knows what it looks like and has determined ways to measure success. If you have not done this, that’s the place to start. If you have then great, you’re ahead of the game!
My broad goal is to help people to live their best life. My more specific professional goal is to guide 100 professionals through the process of achieving their goals. I measure success with feedback from my blog posts, speeches and presentations, and when clients set up their own businesses or feel better about going into the office, or make the time to think through and set their goals.
Now, it’s your turn.
Your action item is to decide what success looks like in your: professional life, spiritual life, personal life, financially, physically, and socially. Go where your mind takes you. Pick one area each day this week. You can carve out 15 minutes each day for this. Write down what a successful __________ life would look and feel like. You have to know what you’re shooting for in order to know when you’ve achieved it.
Do it now. Write it down. Meditate on it. Do it Now.
Allow yourself to take 15 minutes for you. Focus. Take Action. Do it Now.
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