The Definition of Success and How It Could be Achieved

In this small article I have tried to find the meaning and essence of success and what leads to it. I have tried to make it very simple for people who wonder what is actually success and how  it can be achieved.

Have you often heard people arguing about whether someone is a successful person or not.You might also have seen people who are thought to be successful by others.At the same time these people are not happy with their lives. So what is the reason. I thought the solution to understanding success and evaluating whether you have achieved success, you should first of all try to define success.

There are hundreds and thousands of quotes and sayings from people known to be successful. I think it is worth mentioning a few of them.

Winston Churchill:

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

William Saroyan:

Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

William Menninger:

Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, courtesy, wisdom, charity.

William Lloyd Garrison:

The success of any great moral enterprise does not depend upon numbers.

Benjamin Disraeli:

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

These were some of the quotes from so called “successful people”. What i think about these are that they are very general and do not help a person greatly as far as motivation and desire to succeed is concerned. They are rather to show the personality and characteristics of what the “successful person” says.

I have a different perspective to being successful. To me a successful person is the one who is happy or satisfied from his work. Therefore even a street cleaner can be called a successful person according to my definition.

I therefore think that in order to judge whether you are successful or not, it is extremely important that you set goals and aims in your life. These might be short term goals are very long term strategies.

To sum up, you should set goals in your life which could be short or long term. You should constantly check your performance to make sure that you are on the track and working for these goals.

These goals could be anything e.g. “I have to finish my homework by 7 pm”.I you succeed to do so then you are a successful person in the short run. In the long run , to be a successful person, you should work on your long term strategies e.g increasing the sale of your grocery store by 50%.

I hope this article will have helped you at least to know exactly what is success which will help you to work towards your success. Your valuable comments will be greatly appreciated.