When it comes to the meaning of success it can be difficult to define. According to Planet of Success, success is the status of having achieved and accomplished an aim or objective, or the achievement of desired visions and planned goals. I asked a few people what success means to them and most replied by saying “receiving profit” or “being financially stable,” and some just did not know. Success can mean different things to different people, which is why it is hard to define, but ultimately success goes far beyond just being wealthy, as some may describe what success means to them. To have success means to accomplish your life goals and achieve excellence in things that are most important to you, but overall it is to be happy with your accomplishments in life.
When I think of success a quote by Jack Canfield comes to mind, “Successful people maintain a positive focus in life no matter what is going on around them. They stay focused on their past successes rather than their past failures, and on the next action steps, they need to take to get them closer to the fulfillment of their goals rather than all the other distractions that life presents to them.” While it is nice to want to be financially taken care of, that is not my only goal in life. Things such as reaching the peak of my dream career, traveling the world experiencing new things, or making a difference in my community are things that would add to my success. My past accomplishments are what I continuously build on as I journey through life and reach a higher level of being successful and happy.
Although success means something different to everyone, the basis of how we reach success is the same, through ambition, determination, hard work, and persistence. In order to accomplish your goals in life, it takes a desire to want to achieve your goals. Once you have the ambition to do something it then takes a strong willpower, a copious amount of effort, and the drive to continue no matter the difficult obstacles that may stand in your way. Chuck Norris once said, “I've always found that anything worth achieving will always have obstacles in the way and you've got to have that drive and determination to overcome those obstacles on route to whatever it is that you want to accomplish.” With that being said what do you want to accomplish and what does it mean to you to have success?
