What prompt me to write an article about success? It's been playing in my mind for a long time what's the definition of success? How to achieve success? What does success feels? Does it matters at all?
It's very obvious that success can be:
- Rewarding
- Self satisfaction
- Reality check
- Feel appreciated
- Motivated to do more and achieve higher results
Success here does not have to be great. It could be as simple as getting a compliment from a colleague for a job well done, helping an old lady to cross the stress, do charity etc. Why I say these are successes? Success is a resultant of what one did well right? In normal circumstances, it could mean success in academic, career, politics, sports.....and most important life. I believe success in life is intangible in nature and cannot be measure by a yardsticks. It could mean everyone has its own way of measuring success and value what success means to them.
In my opinion, success could mean be able to stand up and go to work everyday. It could mean I am able to drive and eat healthily. It could mean I live in a peaceful country. What I want to say here is, we should threat every small things as an accomplishments and appreciate what we have. As human moves from one stage of life to another, we tend to forget what we have achieve and we always go for the higher goals.
In life, it can be struggle for human to achieve success if he or she is too focus on certain things whereby small things tend to be ignored and not appreciated.
SUCCESS = CONTENTMENT + APPRECIATION + COMPASSIONATE + REALITY CHECK + PRINCIPLED
Agree? Everyone has its own formula of success. For me, I need 3 things:
- Discipline
- Focus
- Time and people conscious
Well....What I have achieve in 2012 that I can say it's a success...? Many little things ....and yes I am appreciative of what I have....I wish for more "success" in my own definition for the years to come....
