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A few weeks ago I was conversing with a friend whom I hadn’t seen for three years.
After the usual, ‘long time no see’ and ‘how have you been?’ salutations,
he asked me a question – ‘What does success mean to you?’ I was silent for a while and he added, ‘What’s your life target?’
I was dumbfounded by the gravity of the question and couldn’t answer. All through my journey back to school I kept pondering on it – what does success mean to me personally?
I didn’t get to the bottom of it until recently. I now understand what my friend was asking me to do.
He wanted me to have a definition for success.

But what is this success?

When you Look around see many successful men and women. They are people who have excelled in their fields.
So it is fair to say you know what success is. Well, no! It isn’t!
In as much as everyone strive to succeed, you’d never succeed if you don’t have a personal definition.
Success therefore is what you as a person have decided to do. A target you set for yourself.
It is not necessarily owning a multi-million dollar company, it’s not wearing the latest and most expensive clothes or it isn’t even riding the best ride.
Success is much more than what you see in successful people it’s a function of your decision – you decide what success is to you.
It is reaching the goals you’ve set. It is hitting your target.
Only when you’ve scaled the heights of your set benchmarks or your yardsticks for measuring success would you be in line to succeed.

Success Definition

Now that you know what success really is – what is your definition? It could be as minute as eating a nice meal and as big as building a multi-million dollar company from scratch.
The only thing that matters is to set your own definition of success.

Now what?

Write down what you want to achieve and let it be your guide as you journey towards success.
It is simple – be the one who decides what success is to you and not following some people’s Standards.
If you change your benchmark for success and you’d find joy and fulfillment in what you have.
Simply put – Change your yardsticks for measuring success and you’d be happier
Remember it’s never fair to compare!
Now am asking you the same question – what does success mean to you? What’s your success definition?
Let me hear your views via the comments section below.

This Post first appeared on Amoson Writes Blog. You can find the original post via: https://amosonwrites./2016/07/13/success-definition/

dynamo77:
Reasonable

Thanks

The 21st century human being is an ever engaged being;
A busy bee or better still a buzzing being.
To him the 24 hour day is grossly inadequate and thus he always has tons of undone tasks.
This causes him to undermine his efforts. “I’m not doing enough!”he asserts.
The truth is, we all want to do more, be more and have more. In short, we crave increased productivity.
To be more productive you need to literally do more. Great, this is
why you pick at several tasks.
But, here comes the problem. How do you achieve those tasks that would by extension mean more productivity? How do you really do more?Well in this post I’d Share with you one of the potent tools I use to beat my tasks daily.
It is SCHEDULING!
Yes, so obvious yet so widely neglected. Old fashioned scheduling helps you improve productivity in dimensions you can’t imagine. Below I write about some of these spheres.

1. It aids better focus: scheduling to do certain things at certain times gives you a sense of direction. Your goals and successes are defined. Remember, anyone travelling nowhere can stop anywhere and call it his destination. Disastrous right? Well, simple scheduling prevents it.
2. It provides balance of activities: with tons of tasks flooding your day, it is very easy to find yourself drifting intermittently between tasks. This increases the amount of time required to finish a task but with scheduling this too is defeated as a balance is created amongst your tasks.
3. It helps you get organized: scheduling puts your tasks in a certain order. Thus helping you get organized. When your activities are ordered, you have less clutter on your hands and clutter is one big anti task achievement agent.
4. It counters procrastination: this is by far the best sphere where scheduling helps. In the real sense procrastination occurs when you don’t do what you’re supposed to at a specific time. Scheduling counters that by giving you something to do always.

Aside speeding your goal attainment ratio, scheduling helps you be a better version of yourself by improving your focus and organization while countering procrastination. Use it!

Culled from: Amoson Writes