True Success

It is important to understand that success is not an achievement, but a way of life. True success comes from within. It is the result of who we are, not what we do.  Success is actually the fruit of our abilities to imagine what we want in life, properly direct our efforts in a purposeful way towards what we want, and then sacrifice what we want now for what we want in the future.

Our own success must be measured by effort. If we hit the jackpot in the lottery, marry a rich person, or make that one big score in crime, we are not successful - we are lucky! That is why these things don’t provide the inner sense of satisfaction, self-worth, happiness and accomplishment that true success does. If we achieve or accomplish things through underhanded or deceitful means, then our success cannot be called true success, because our achievements are based on lies.

Even if we graduate from high school, earn a promotion at work, or accomplish something spectacular and then allow ourselves to become complacent or regress in our lives, I don’t believe that we can truly be called successful. It is not the individual achievements that lead to true success, happiness and satisfaction in this life, instead it is the process by which we continually achieve.

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