What Is Success?

The world success means different things to different individuals.To some,it means being influential and having the ability to command authority.To some others,it means being rich.Yet to others,it means not only being rich but having enough riches that could serve their unborn generations uptill the next two centuries.

The oxford dictionary of curent English on its own defined success as,"THE ACCOMPLISHMENT OF AN AIM"

In his book,;HOW TO MAKE PLANS AND SET GOALS THAT WORKS"-----Charlie Tremendous Jones defined success as,'The progrssive realisation of predetermined worthwhile goals that is stabilished with balance"

Looking at charlie,s defination of success,four words are quite striking and those words are what makes a true success.

* Success must be progressive.In other words,it must not be an overnight something.Somebody for instance who wants to be a medical doctor cannot become one overnight no matter how intelligent he is.
Between the time the fellow nurses the ambition of becoming a doctor and the time he finally becomes one,there must be a time lagg of some years within which he has to sit for an entrance examination to a university to study medicine which in itslf will have to take some years after which he goes fo r his housemanship and finally becomes a qualified medical doctor.

* Secondly,success must predetermined before it can be realised because nothing happens by chance.Truely,any man that wakes up and finds himself a success has not been sleeping.

In the case of the fellow above who wants to be a medical doctor,he first determined in his mind what he really wanted to do with his life before ever he started sitting for his entrance examination and taking courses un medicine.

So,if you must succedd and make something meaningfull out out of your ordinary life,you have to determine now what you want to be or do with your life.Just decide in your mind what you want out of life and you will have it because," What the mind can conceive and believe,the man can achieve"

Thirdly,the goal to be acheived must be worthwhile.Put in another way,it must be something that adds value to humanity-----something that does not contravene the laws of God or that of nature and something that must benefit all concerned ( any thing outside this is not a true success and it cannot last )because a man must surely reap what he sow.

Lastly,a true and lasting sucess must be stabilised with balance.You dont have to overwork yourself to death just because you want to succedd.Learn to work while you work and play while you play because all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

The above in a nutshell is what true and lasting success is all about.