Success means different things to different people. Every person has different values and different abilities.
One person may think success is selling her business for $100 million; someone feels successful after their startup finally turns a profit after 5 years; and another person defines success as being promoted to sales manager with a $250K salary.
Someone may think success may think it’s winning a gold medal in the Olympics; someone else thinks it’s setting a new personal record for running a marathon; to a child it may be learning to ride a bicycle with the training wheels off.
To one person, success is their son graduating from Harvard Medical School; to another it’s their daughter being the first in their family to go to college; to the parents of a child with severe learning disabilities, success is him graduating from high school.
All have different levels compared to the others. But they all have one thing in common: they’re successful because they didn’t quit. Along the way, they had difficulties and roadblocks, and lots of adversity. But they persisted and eventually found their success. Quitters don’t.
Also along the way, they most likely had minor successes that helped them continue their journey- success breeds success.
How about you? What does success mean to you?
