What is your definition of success? Money, fame, wisdom, family?

What is really interesting about this question is the fact that every single one of us has his own general definition for success however have not truly defined what success look like for himself. Because success has some unique characteristics that it is absolutely possible to customize it and therefore make it achievable for you to succeed as long as you are honest to yourself.

Success is an idea, and therefore it can take any form and shape its owner wants to give it. It also means that its price is related to a person’s subjective appreciation of its worth. If success for you is making millions through your business it doesn’t mean that one cannot be successful by making just a  living working for you. Every person has a different worldview and therefore different aspirations in life. If you can figure out what you’d love to do in life and what would make you feel happy then you can draw down a path and go for it. Then bear in mind that…

Success is a journey, not a destination. And actually an endless one… but please try to enjoy the milestones! What is very well embedded in our human nature is that we tend to re-evaluate life aspirations based on our current status. So if success for you once seemed to be graduating from your law school it later transforms into becoming a well known lawyer, then the best in your discipline to even end up being the best in history! That’s actually the beauty and the curse of success. You can always be more successful than you were before but you will never become as successful as you could ever become! That’s fine as long as you can take some breaks down the road to enjoy what you have achieved so far cause…

Success is a feeling you experience and not a badge you can carry over with you. You can of course take pride for being successful because someone else sees or thinks that for you but unless you can really feel it there is no value to it. So it is up to you to grant yourself as a successful individual at some point and even if others don’t agree with you it is just because they have a different idea about success or have re-evaluated their aspirations for you. Again, make sure you are honest to yourself and that you have achieved what you had in mind.

That’s all it takes to succeed.