Parents, teachers, managers and mentors can attempt to help you achieve what they think success is.
Success will generally be with regard to a particular manner, subject, work or profession — it rarely is anywhere closed to a wholesome view, teaching or mentoring.
A few elevated people can comprehensibly articulate what success is for them and know what it took to achieve the success they experience.
Success is the acquisition of all your material desires.
But is it success having all of your material needs met and a family that hates you?
Money is not everything, they say so; success may just be developing an angel’s heart and winning over your tribe of people who would die for you any time anywhere even if it means struggling financially.
How about love, family, friends, a career or enterprise that is enjoyable and abundantly rewarding?
There is no single person, thing or place that can on it’s own be defined as success.
No one person can universally define success.
This unfortunately also means that no one can say for sure what it takes to succeed.
Parents, teachers, managers and mentors can attempt to help you achieve what they think success is.
Success will generally be with regard to a particular manner, subject, work or profession — it rarely is anywhere closed to a wholesome view, teaching or mentoring.
This is not necessarily bad news. Think about it; if no one really knows what success is, we really have no business spending valuable time and many sleepless nights worrying about achieving or not achieving it.
A few elevated people can comprehensibly articulate what success is for them and know what it took to achieve the success they experience.
Most have no idea how success can be defined beyond material possessions and are less likely to attempt a two-sentence tutorial on how others can achieve it.
If they did it would be a guess. This is the reason why we spend copious amounts of time pursuing success as defined and described by others.
Bob Proctor defined success as “the progressive realisation of a worthy ideal.’’
This means that success is not an event. It is a continuous experience. It is not something we chase after.
It is a realisation that we come to experience. Success is not a tangible achievement.
It is an ideal that the more conscious of us endeavour to live up to — one that must be worthy of us and not the other way round. Simple. Unfortunately we spend our lives regurgitating what others’ definition of success is and all our energy trying to achieve it by others’ methods without ever defining it for ourselves.
My ideals in every perceivable sphere of life are not necessary yours. I therefore cannot define success for or to you and vice-versa.
It follows therefore that I cannot teach, guide or mentor you on success and vice-versa.
That said, to make a spirited attempt at helping you to succeed, it is imperative that I understand what your ideals are and work with you to articulate them.
Together, we would then evaluate and audit your everyday experiences against your ideals.
From here we can only take one course of action — to eliminate the negative variances between your experiences and your ideals by establishing a modus operandi for you that is uniquely based on the realisation of YOUR ideals.
The material wins that you are likely to enjoy in the process are simply by-products of living your ideals. Here’s to your success.
