About Success

 

What does success mean to you personally and how can your understanding of success help you to achieve the most fulfilling outcomes for your life? How can it help you become the best person you can be?

This website has been designed to help us along in answering these questions by unpacking, through blogging, the relevant meanings of well chosen, and often inspiring quotations.,

Let us know what you think.

What is Success?

“It is clear that the definition of success is different for everybody. If you want to achieve success, you have to define what it is for yourself.” (Aaron Peters, author)

While it is true that success often means different things to different people, there is little doubt that the way people tend to view success has been and continues to be heavily weighted to giving primary importance to goals like making money, enjoying a high standard of living, being powerful, and attaining fame. Rarely, for example, especially in business, governmental, and educational settings, do people train themselves and focus their attention on goals like studying and practicing to become kinder, more loving, more helpful, or more virtuous. Money, power, and prestige have clearly been at the forefront in informing our most popular images of success.

The problem though, is that our most popular images of success can often lead us astray in our lives, and often encourage us to make unreflective personal, career and life choices. We often choose, for example, personally inappropriate careers and incompatible partners in love because they appeal to personally misleading and un-thought out assumptions about success, and this can unfortunately lead us to ending up feeling frustrated, disappointed, and unfulfilled in life.

Into the Meaning of Success…

“Many phrases and words sound alike but are very different. For instance, ‘standard of living’ and ‘standard of life.’ The first puts its emphasis upon material comforts, the second on spiritual idealism. In our day there is a tendency to confuse success with achievement, to accept a man of distinction as a distinguished man. Unless we have a standard of life, all else is sounding brass and cymbals and history will probe our ruins for the answer.” (Ralph McGill)

Becoming Wise About Success…

In order to become wise about success in life, we need to focus on and understand success in terms of a range of core human values, qualities, and practices, which we refer to as the dimensions of success.

“…a compilation of quotes. It’s a path to learning the principles of success. Each quote shares a principle you can apply to your everyday life. Read and re-read … quotes on a daily basis and mark the entries that resonate with you. Then you can review them when you need a gentle nudge, in the right direction.” (Beth Bianca)

By focusing on the dimensions of success we become empowered to develop the wisdom needed to live meaningful, effective, and successful lives.

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