The following questions were raised in this post recently which led me to think about them leading up to this post.
How do you measure Success?
Do you look at people who are considered successful and see how you measure up against them?
Or do you set your own standard and see how you measure up against yourself?
Or do you let someone else decide for you?
Success for me has always been anything that keeps one happy. Very often we go around our lives looking for bigger and better things in life to count as our big successes often forgetting to be be grateful and celebrating the smaller joys. As far as measuring success its all a matter of perspective, a classic winning the silver versus losing the gold outlook at various things. There will always be more successful, more happier, more rich people in this world so the key is to try and be more content than anyone with what life's given you while continuing to strive for better things for yourself. One always needs to set their own standards because if you measure your success by other's expectations then they will more often than not find that he / she might just not be the first people celebrating when the success eventually comes to them.
5 comments:
Very interesting I laaaiiikeee
What if you set your own standards and are feeling quite happy about it and then someone comes up and tells you that your standards aren't good enough. Do you still believe in yourself and your success or do you get these insecurities about being successful?
When u are getting too complacent with ur own achievements, you can look at others to see how much more can be done. If you are feeling down and out, you can look at what you have done and got urself that you feel it aint that bad after all. I mean to say comparing needn't be for a bad reason. If you get green because others are doing a lot better then it is bad. Amen
@Ad Hmmm I see but whayyyy :)
@M Well then you shouldnt let anyone decide for you whether you are happy or not by your measure of success I think
@totti Very well said I see signs of you getting de-AOL ised :)
success differs frm perspective to perspective
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