Success: How Big or Small to Be Called a Success?

Success is an achievement of a goal, small or large. It doesn't have to be big or extraordinary that the whole world have to know as a breaking news on TV! But it still can be an achievement that will make one proud.

In general, I am assuming, most of us are procrastinators. We like to put off our tasks and activities on hold due to laziness or whatever reason! These actions lead to incomplete work and activities! As a result, our work keeps on piling up, and our motivation and desire dwindles further!

So you see where am I going with this issue? Does it sound familiar? For example, we all have dealt with an untidy, cluttered Desk, Whether it be at home or the office. We keep telling ourselves that it needs cleaning. But we don't do it! The reason, We don't have a motivation to clean it though our desire to do so is intense. The inertia have settled in our mind looking at the piles of incomplete tasks!

Here what we need is a push or a strong desire to start the job and in no time the desk will be clean and tidy, and we will feel great!

Now, what did we achieve by completing this simple task? A huge success! Tremendous satisfaction and a sense of relief.

The desk is looking great after the cleaning. It was an easy task, but the procrastination held us back from cleaning it. Here this inertia was hindering the success. If we can garner this of passion in our life and take up the challenge, don't our desk and our life could become uncluttered for good!

So, a small achievement of success can make us so happy and satisfied, why can't we build on this habit and make it a permanent habit or a second nature of ours. But what takes is a self-discipline, passion, the self-motivation to appreciate these small successes. The rewards are unbelievable.

Anybody, whether it be a child, men or women, the positive attitude leading to achievements and successes will change their life for good. If we put our mind to any task, small or big like cleaning a child's toy room, or completing homework, cleaning a garage, mowing the yard or cleaning a pantry. These tasks aren't difficult or hard but tedious and uninteresting. But passion, developing a habit to complete these tasks with enthusiasm and appreciating small successes will give a sense of achievements.

If we become passionate about all our jobs or activities, small or large, stay motivated, learn the discipline to complete them promptly and learn lifelong work ethics, the rewards will be unbelievable!! Our children can learn at a young age the same characters and qualities by our actions alone. Doesn't this make you happy and proud of your extraordinary achievements and reward filled successes, small but significant!

These successes may sound small to one who enjoys great successes in life. But most of us, who complete small tasks and achieving small successes, these lessons are priceless. They help break the mold of inertia. Achieving small successes will generate confidence and courage to take up big challenges in life.

So the lesson we learn here is to win over procrastination, create a passion and the motivation for any task or chores. Learn the habit to complete the task at hand with enthusiasm. The rewards will be satisfying and successes will be exhilarating.

"Sweet Success is contagious and addictive, but this addiction is worth having it!!"

Don't you all are with me on this? I believed so!

Respectfully,

Deepak Mehta

All of us enjoy a success in all our endeavors, but I believe that the achievement does not have to be enormous. Even gaining victory over a bad habit of procrastination is a big deal. Because, the practice of putting off any task, big or small for no particular reason but sheer laziness that robs many of us achieving tremendous successes in our future endeavors. So it is a huge deal to gain victory over it.
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Perseverance and Persistence for a Success

We all strive to achieve success in our life either in a personal or a professional venture. Everybody embarks on this journey with high hope and energy. But we have to prepare sufficiently for this venture because the possibility of failing or disappointment will be following us till we reach our destination. The proper tools for success will keep us in the game till we reach our goal.

We all embark upon a new venture, a new business, a journey with a hope and dream to win success. Every one of us wants to achieve our goal and reach our destination with a sense of satisfaction. This dream venture is vital for our ego, and the success is essential for our mind, spirit and soul. All new endeavors carry a possibility of failure or discouragement along the path to our destination for some unknown circumstances. But We can learn the skill required to gain success as we reach towards our goal.

Perseverance and Persistence:

We have given many thoughts, invested our energy and after mustering up all the courage started our journey. As we hope to achieve a success in our venture, Persistent hard work and perseverance to reach, our goal will be ongoing. Everyone will strive to solve the difficulties and find the solutions to our problems. We know the undertaking of this task won't be easy.The competition will be furious, and a task of achieving the success will be daunting. Experts with the skills for similar activities, success, will be easy to accomplish. The amateurs like us will have to work harder to reach the same conclusion.

To stay the course is our motto and Success is our goal.

Clouds of Discouragement:

After all these efforts, firm determination, and unrelenting labor, what if the goal to achieve that success keep evading us? What if the clouds of the disappointment and fear of a failure start to take hold?

How to deal with this fear?

We have determined at the beginning of the journey that we shouldn't accept the defeat; we shouldn't give up. We will stand tall and firm against the failure. Because it will be easy to quit if we fail. But the pain of leaving the task incomplete be unbearable.The reason is we may feel relieved if we quit, the stigma of failure will stay with us for the rest of our lives. It will be hard to dream again. Think, The triumph and a Defeat are like a day and night!

To accept the defeat means we lose! Though we started knowing that the path to success will be hard. But it was the journey we embarked upon to achieve success for our dream venture. As we walk accepting the defeat, it will create a phobia in our mind.The fear of failure will haunt us. Maybe it will scare us to dream again.

Listen what these Great leaders are telling us:

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."

Winston S. Churchill

Can we imagine what the world would have been today if Thomas Alva Edison had accepted the defeat and quit his research to invent an electric bulb after first or second or 1000th or 5000th failures?! The world would have been in the dark without that Electric bulb today. But for the sake of humanity and his firm desire, he stood firm against the mounting failures. Was unwilling to accept the defeat, kept doing what he determined to do and at last he reached his goal. He invented that electric Bulb. One Man's Courage and Perseverance dispersed the clouds of darkness and brought the brightness to the world for ever and ever!!

For his thousands of failed attempts, this is what he said:

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."

Thomas A. Edison

"Just because you fail once, doesn't mean you're gonna fail at everything. Keep trying, hold on, and always, always, always believe in yourself, because if you don't, then who will, sweetie? So keep your head high, keep your chin up, and most importantly, keep smiling, because life's a beautiful thing, and there's so much to smile about."

Marilyn Monroe

So to accept the defeat is to give up our freedom to Dream. The day we all stop dreaming is the day we are as good as dead.

We pick up from where we stalled, revamp our strategy and use the experience we gained from our failure and persevere with all our heart till we succeed.

"Discouragement does not mean we are defeated! It is when we accept the defeat, the chance of victory fades."

Respectfully,

Deepak Mehta M.D.

My name is Deepak S Mehta M.D. I am a retired family physician. Ezine has given me lots of encouragement. It has provided me useful suggestion to improve myself. I want to keep writing inspirational, Motivational and Positive Attitude blog posts from my life experiences that hopefully help my visitors to my site. I have just started writing the blog post. I know it needs lots of improvement as far as writing style, and subject matter is a concern. I am working hard at it.I am reading and writing as much as i can to better myself.
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5 Ways To Redefine Success

We often mistake success in life for material wealth, which gives fleeting satisfaction. This article shares things that truly make us feel successful, like doing your passion and becoming the best version of yourself.

Ahhhhhh... that elusive thing called success that everyone is chasing.

We know the word "success", but what is its real meaning?

In today's society, success is usually measured in monetary value - such as one's ability to buy more things and appear successful materially by having 'stuff.' Do you agree that this is how success is generally measured in society? Sounds shallow when you word it out. Now, I am not judging, because guess what, I chased this kind of success in life too for many years.

But one day I got there, I reached that pinnacle of what I thought success was - which at that time for me, was to make lots of money and achieve a lot in business. Still, I felt hollow inside. I thought to myself, "I thought getting here would feel different." This version of success we are conditioned to is backwards and is never going to give us the feeling we want, simply because we've equated the pursuit of success to chasing after a "feeling." We buy stuff and pursue accomplishments to experience a feeling that we think these things are going to give us. Actually, we would feel good, but only temporarily; it will not last because none of these pleasures fulfill your soul's true longing.

We have been conditioned to believe that having these "things" determines our success. The truth is, success is different for every person and no version of success is better than another. It is time to redefine this word to get back to what your true self considers success.

HERE ARE SOME MEASUREMENT STICKS TO CONSIDER WHEN DEFINING YOUR VERSION OF SUCCESS:

1. Do What You Love

Self-satisfaction and fulfillment are yours at the end of the day. Work doesn't seem like work because you are doing what you're passionate about. Ever heard this quote, "Make a living doing what you love and you'll never work a day in your life"?

When you love what you do, it is easy to put your best foot forward, no motivation is required. The basic ingredient is love for the work you want to do. Nothing is more rewarding than seeing the outcome of something that you love to do. Work stops being something you 'have' to do; instead it becomes something you 'get' to do.

2. Serving More People

What if we began to measure success by how many people we are able to serve?

How do you feel when you truly fulfill the needs of another person and provide valuable service to that person?

There is something very fulfilling about it knowing that we are making a difference. Even if we think it's a small thing, it could be the biggest thing to a person, it may even be life changing. Success is touching people's lives and making a difference one life at a time.

3. Becoming A Better Version Of Yourself

This is the true purpose of life when we get down to it. To simply become the best version of ourselves. How does it feel when you grow as a person? When you become more proficient in something? Or when you handle a situation in a more effective way? What if we stopped competing against everyone else and instead just competed with ourselves to be better than the day before and the month before and the year before? How would that kind success feel - looking back at a year passed knowing that you have grown every day and every week even if in small and simple ways?

4. Achieving Your Goals

Congratulations for hitting the target! Regardless of how small or big your goals are, you have accomplished them well. This is a measurement of success. Growth is something everyone wants to achieve, personally and professionally. You have gotten out of the shell, acquired new skills and competencies, and learned new things to improve yourself, and did more and better than the last time. You set constant goals you know you can achieve and kept knocking them out.

How successful do you think you would feel if you were constantly achieving what you set out to do?

5. How Much You Look Forward To Tomorrow

Life couldn't be any better when you are filled with hope of what tomorrow brings - new challenges, opportunities and unlimited possibilities. You always see the brighter side everyday, and if today wasn't good enough, tomorrow is going to be another chance for you to make it better. If you make success about reaching a material goal, it may feel good the moment you achieve it, but then you are left having to constantly strive for the next thing to get that feeling again, and are left always chasing.

Make success about who you are now and who you are becoming, about how you live your life and how you serve, about making personal progress a constant part of your journey, and about cultivating the life where every tomorrow is a gift you are grateful to experience

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