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What Is A Successful Life?

By James Jolie

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How do you define a successful life? Is it becoming a millionaire or a sports champion? Is it finding the cure for an illness? Or is it raising happy, well adjusted children?

Success is not a matter of luck. Success is the realization of your goals. Ask any successful person what they want to achieve in their life and they can tell you exactly what that is.

Bill Gates has a desire to put a computer in everyone’s home. He became an extremely wealthy man in the process but it is not the money that makes him successful. He has virtually realized his dream.

In fact, if you look at a lot of people that we consider successful, very few were motivated purely by the money. I am sure that most would not like to give up the financial trappings success has brought them but that was usually not their initial motivation.

Roger Bannister didn’t break the four minute mile for money but to prove it could be done. Edmund Hilary wanted to conquer Mount Everest.

Mother Theresa wanted to help the poor but she probably never dreamt she would start a charitable organization responsible for helping millions of unfortunate people worldwide. She died a pauper but I think most would consider her a successful person.

Can you be successful if you are spoilt and lazy? No, the secret to real success is hard work, dedication and resilience. You need the ability to pick yourself up and start over when things don’t go according to plan.

People who are successful see setbacks as opportunities. If you want your life to be successful you need to first define exactly what success means to you as a person.

Forget about other people’s definition and find your own. You need to be committed to making this work. This may mean putting in longer hours than anyone else. It may mean studying and working at the same time. But whatever it takes, you will have the energy and commitment to see it through.

It is only when you know exactly what you want to achieve and make that your goal, will you recognize opportunities being offered to you to help you get to your destination.

If you don’t know what you want, how will you recognize when life is giving you a chance? You would never dream of driving to a new destination without a map and success is exactly the same.

You need to know where you are going, how you are going to get there and be fully 100% committed to doing whatever it takes to achieve your goals.

Whether you are successful or not in life is not your parents fault, the fault of your genes or your third grade teacher. The sooner you accept 100% responsibility for the success you have achieved to date, or lack thereof, the nearer you will be on the road to achieving the life you dream of.

If you think you can or think you can’t, you are usually right! Henry Ford (1863-1947)

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