Trying To –>> Find The Secret To Success??
I have to ask you a question?
What is the meaning of success to you?
I ask the above because there appears to be a bit of confusion with some people as to what the idea of success really is. What I have seen over the years is that people look to others to rate what and who is labeled a success. As though there is a bar or target of some sort that approves one as being successful.
Is success a destination once arrived or is it part of the journey? Maybe all the above. Can one be successful without being popular? Thomas Edison was successful in inventing electricity; however was his journey to that invention a success although he had faced failure after failure? If he would have died leaving clues to someone else that went on and used his lifetime of experience to invent electricity, would he be in the history books as a successful person?
I also think of Abe Lincoln, who was defeated so many times in his life and then reached the position of President of the United States.
- Lost job, 1832
- Defeated for legislature, 1832
- Failed in business, 1833
- Elected to legislature, 1834
- Sweetheart (Ann Rutledge) died, 1835
- Had nervous breakdown, 1836
- Defeated for Speaker, 1838
- Defeated for nomination for Congress, 1843
- Elected to Congress, 1846
- Lost renomination, 1848
- Rejected for Land Officer, 1849
- Defeated for Senate, 1854
- Defeated for nomination for Vice-President, 1856
- Again defeated for Senate, 1858
- Elected President, 1860
As you review the above list of perhaps one of the greatest leaders that ever held the position of President of the United States, how do you view success now? Please also take into account that Lincoln only had about 12 months of formal schooling in his entire life.
In my opinion, success is what you make it to be. It does not have to encompass money unless that is what you make it. Look at Mother Theresa, Martin Luther King, jr, Gandhi….. All whom were successful and monetarily were not compensated.
Successful people do not go after success because they want anyone’s approval or permission to be successful. They stay at it until they obtain their desire and fulfillment. They are focused driven and really do not care what anyone thinks of them.
I talk passionately about this because it is time for people to focus more on themselves, other than everyone else and what they are saying success is. You are always successful if you are pursuing your desired idea or goal. Success is all in the journey. Every ahha moment of truth that you have, which lifts you up mentally, emotionally or spiritually is a success. When one recovers from a bad relationship – that is success. The ability to move on to a more productive relationship is also success. When a parent and child reunite and talk after a length of time because of pain and differences, success is there in the air.
Success is an idea and concept that is always in motion if we would only recognize it and let it be a part of our reality. Part of the problem that we as a society make is in setting up certain guidelines, or the “my success is better than yours”. How did we ever get to the place of rating success and using that as the bar to how we look at people?
How do we rate the single mom that raises her child and then that child goes on to become a so called successful person, turning out to be perhaps a Governor, Senator, very successful businessman, Missionary or Fireman? Does the single mom get any credit at all? She should and not because of her Childs success but because she had an idea of success for herself and that was to make sacrifices for her child.
Success starts with the proper mindset. Success is the recognition of staying on course and moving towards the end result. Success is found all along the way. Success is learning new information, making new alliances, successfully following your game plan and getting better as you move forward.
Start to think about all the successes that you have had in your life. They are there and present. You have had as many as anyone else. You have to view them as such and start to recognize the uncommon successes that you have as true movements towards the future. Do not focus on accolades from your family and friends. We often time look for this approval from others and use that as a guide to being fulfilled within. This is dangerous because if we continually follow and look for that acceptance, we will continue to be lost.
Success is a feeling that anyone can obtain and have. It is the idea of what you hold as the highest thought about yourself and how you would like to see you. It represents the very inner essence of what you are all about.
For years I struggled to understand this and what it meant. I put so much emphasis on money and that literally drove me crazy. You cannot chase money. It will continue to elude you. You cannot try and set a trap for it, it will always smell out the bait. You have to let success be part of who you are and what you do passionately. Once this is understood and you are on the path to doing what you really choose to do, then success will be more apparent and take form in a way that will fulfill you as an individual.
You may be asking, well, what about the problems and the roadblocks of life? Hey look back at Lincoln and his years of journeying. 28 years of what many would consider a complete failure and would have given up and quit. He did the one thing that we can all do and that is to push on to realizing higher and higher levels of awareness furthering the larger expression of our success. In 1835, Lincoln lost his sweetheart, in 1836; he had a nervous breakdown and yet persisted with a warrior mentality.
People are looking at the glass half empty, instead of what is there. Just the mere fact that something is in the glass can be success in motion if we will accept it as such. Life will continue to hand you situations that you will have to deal with. Your Attitude is the difference when we are faced with the illusions of problems. There is no better or worst. We come here and we will leave one day. All that we can do is focus on the moment and our grandest version of what we choose for our lives to be. If we keep that version within our minds and heart, success will forever be a part of our existence. I look forward to talking to you soon.
Live Only In The Moment
Love & Respect
Anderson “TheAceMan” Cutting
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