What does success look like to you? Is it your neighbor’s home, the luxury car from down the street, or is it someone’s professional role – Vice President of something or another? Maybe it’s that girl and her way of life - what she wears and whom she hangs with, or the celebrity you watch on television. What about him? Do you admire his lifestyle – the gorgeous watch, the shiny shoes? Do you wish it were you? Is that success?
Or, is success just being you, an intimate knowledge of yourself: strengths, weaknesses, like and dislikes with a focus towards your innate abilities – your true strengths? The power to execute and deliver results effortlessly. Staying the course committed to achieving one goal after another. Small wins along the way, which lead to major victories. Isn’t that success?
How much are you willing to sacrifice to achieve success? Will you travel the distance for the “role?” Will you work two jobs to own your home with three indoor garages and weekends too so you could drive a luxury vehicle and to look and feel like they do? How far will you go and how much will it cost you? Should success cost you your soul?
Is success chasing an ideal lifestyle or is it just being you and accepting what your strengths bring you? Can you really achieve another person’s look and feel or is it easier to accept and appreciate how you look and feel? Is it fighting a lost battle due to lack of skills or is it the knowledge gained from each battle, which strengthens your natural skills?
Bruno LoGreco Life Coach & Mentor, Motivational Speaker
3 comments:
Very well said. Concise and precise. That's what would make me go on with life without guilt or any negative feelings. Keep it up coach! By the way you might be interested with Zedrooms. It is a global forum for life coaches like you. Create and manage forums instantly, easily and for free! Good luck
Great post, Bruno. It's so easy to get swept away by someone else's vision of success, someone who was swept away by someone's else's vision of success, who was swept away...well, you get the picture. :D
Great point! And I would add that failure actually leads to a more honest vision of personal success. Failing to achieve someone else's -or society's- vision of success forces you to re-evaluate which are someone else's priorities, and which are your own.
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