By Jerin Jacob (Author of Your Epic Year)
Success! it is one of the
topic, written about and read about millions of times from the day man got the
ability to comb their hair properly. Many books, articles, training materials
and courses are being introduced by some beautiful people, of course they have
become extremely successful selling them. Its like showing a plastic cake and
taking orders and then using the same money to buy a real cake for himself.
But what is success? Even after this much information
overload, everyone has their on philosophy around success. Interestingly many
still become 'successful' without reading to, without listening to
any 'blah, blah' stuffs.
My intention here is to help you take off your black
glared sun glass you are wearing to see success. So that you can enjoy a brand
new sunny day.
Okay, many say success is relative and is dependent to
individual to individual. I did think that way, till the time I hear 'The
Strangest Secret' by Earl Nightingale. He explains, those who have a goal
to pursue for, is successful. That is, the journey towards so called 'success' itself is success. To put it in simple terms, as you have a goal to complete
reading this article, and you are working towards it by keep reading. Hence you
are success right now.
Then who is failure, I know one of your friend or foe is
sleeping right now because of laziness and has no goal to achieve. This guy is
a failure (unless his dream is, sleep like morons). Using the earlier 'reading this article' metaphor, even if that guy sees this link on
his Facebook News-feed, he won't bother to click and read this. That means
anyone who doesn't have any specific goal (not necessary a bigger one) to
achieve, is a failure.
"So Jerin, are you saying, I am already successful and there is no need to achieve my dreams".Not really, rather you should understand that your aim is not to become successful but to enjoy the journey towards your dreams. Not like whining, "He is success, I am not", "He has done it in his younger age, I am aged, so I won't never be successful".
But if you can live with a perspective of 'being-successful-already', your life will be more of fun and happy. You must
have seen, all those lazy unproductive people, enjoy life more than you, they
chill out and have fun. Because they just don't care and may say
"whataaaever!". At the same time you have the greatest of vision and
dream, but you just 'wait' till the day you become 'success'. Why?
You take any so called 'successful' people out there, you
can see they have come a long way to live in abundance and in popularity. But
the reality is, even if there were struggles in their life, they all did enjoy
their journey. To be 'successful', you have to feel success right now. Not
like, when you have everything you will.
At the end of the day, life is meant to live happily at
every second of your life time. So treat yourself as if you are already a 'successful' person and chill out. By the way you are reading the last sentence
of the article, if you had not enjoyed reading this, you wouldn't have reached
here. Have fun.
“Success is not a destination, it's a journey”
Hope this concept has helped you. By the way do you know someone who really needs this to be read? If so, go ahead and share this article with that person. Sharing is caring.
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