What is Success and How to Define It

If you ask anyone whether they want to succeed in their life, the most common answer would be “Why not, It’s what I desire”. You would hardly find anyone who thinks otherwise. The next questions you encounter would be, “What is Success?, How to define it?”.

In simpler terms, success is the achievement of something that you intend. For some people success means achieving whatever they dream. For many it is the name, fame, ego, power, social acceptance and money. We all are big dreamers-fighting dreamers. Some of them would have come true and some won’t. We have failed many times while achieving our dreams but should we give up? Just think a little when you were a child, you must have fallen down thousands of times while trying to stand and walk. If you have given up at that time, will you be able to walk today.

Therefore, never regret failing during life. we should be positive and try hard to achieve success in life. I remember a motto which I live with, that is, “Failures are the pillars of success.” Failure doesn’t mean that we have wasted our time, it does mean that we have a reason to start over. Failure doesn’t mean that we will not be able to make it, it does mean that we need more commitment. Failure doesn’t mean that we have lost everything, it does mean that we missed a turn.

Simply, failures will provide you the extra bit of motivation and urge you to be more committed to achieve the intended result of your journey, which is to be successful. To be successful in life, we have to satisfy certain key aspects. Firstly, knowing your limits is the most important among them. But on the other hand there are so called obstacles in our lives. Many of us think that they mean the same, which is not. Obstacles could be overcome with commitment. In practice limits are few whereas obstacles are many.

What we have to do is, identify our limits, differentiate them with obstacles and start out journey towards success. The second aspect would be having a proper plan to overcome obstacles and achieve success. The plan has to be developed based on your strengths and the nature of your goal. During this stage, believing in yourself is vital as it would make your life easier. You should build up self-confidence. And the final step is the proper execution of your plan. You should identify and predict the possible interruptions that you would face during your journey.

Now it is time to pay more attention to my caption. It says “Success is a Journey, Not a Destination”. We could simply differentiate destination as a narrower path compared to journey. The main feature of a destination is that it has a pre-defined end point. No one in the world could predict exactly what they want in their lives. So, that’s why I have mentioned that the “Success of life doesn’t have a clear destination, but, it’s a non-ending journey. ”

What is success?

What is success? Though success is known to everyone, but this thing is difficult to explain. The meaning and definition of success can vary from person to person and from different ambitious and attitudes. People have different ways and beliefs in order to be successful in life. From the videos I’ve watched, writers or speakers have the variety of experiences behind each poem on how they define success in life.

While watching and listening to the poem in the video, I learned more things about success in life. The poem “The Will to Win” is all about the fervent desire in pursuing a personal goal with relentless and consuming passion. I learned from this poem that when we have a goal that we want to achieve and take hold of and focus on it, we will get it. I agree with this because in my case, when I want something or need to be accomplished especially for school activities, I give up some time, peace, and sleep in order to work towards the most important things in my life. But we can’t avoid any circumstances in life every time we want to be succeeded. There are times that we fail so the courage, faith, and trust are important to me, not only trust in myself but also trust in God because there is nothing impossible to Him. This poem gives us the formula for success.

The poem “The Man in the Arena” is all about us who has chosen to live our own lives, accepting victory and failure alike, and knowing that we are responsible for our lives. I learned that it is important to accept the failure I encounter and don’t lose hope because there is always a second chance. Even I have stumbled, I have criticized, but I know I can learn from it and grow, and the victory will come again.

In”Man’s Search for a meaning”, this focuses on love, hope, responsibility, inner freedom, and the beauty to be found in both nature and act as means that help one endure and overcome narrowing experiences. I learned that it is our primary duty to find the meaning of our lives and live up to it. Knowing about the purpose of my life gives me strength to overcome the hindrance in attaining the success of life. I am always hopeful in attaining my goals in life like Victor does.

The poem “If” by Rudyard Kipling is all about understanding to oneself on what it takes to be successful in life and how to handle defeat when it occurs. I learned that success comes to those who work hard and remain patient. We should keep calm and patient when others do fail and put the blame on us. We should trust ourselves when all others doubt us. And even if others hate us, we never hate them back and rather spread love. It teaches me on how to perceive the world and life’s challenges, and it also teaches me on how to cope with different situations in self-trust, ability to understand the thoughts and feelings of others. We never give up or waste even a single second of time.

In the poem “What is Success?” it talks about on how people define success and what things can be considered as a success. In this poem, I learned that even a small things can be considered as a success by being happy all the time whatever may be the situation and trying to make the others happy by their presences, pleasure among the children and to be a lovable person. Helping others and making their life a bit easier can give us a feeling of success, and that is the real success.

In conclusion, those videos of poems provokes me to build up a battling spirit to fight negative forces in the way of success. Let us strives for the success of life and make efforts even if we don’t know the consequences of everything. It also tells us the importance of being able to pick ourselves up and start again if we fail, so we must prepare to start again. Success is not always doing great and big things, but doing many common and routine things nicely.

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