Defining Your Own Success
Illumination 100 Day Writing Challenge: Day 17
Success is subjective. It is easy to fawn over celebrities or Instagram models and wish for the same lavish lifestyle they have. What we see of their lives makes us think everything goes to plan and because of their fame and fortune they are happy. One person's success is not your failure.
What Is Success?
The Google definition of success is:
the accomplishment of an aim or purpose
My interpretation of this is that every aim you achieve (big or small) amounts to you being successful. If you continue to pursue and reach the aims you set, you have developed a winning formula for success.
The old tale of defining success as getting good exam results in school to go to university/college before getting yourself a “real job” is slowly dying. I know people who have followed this model to the detriment of their health, relationships, and various other elements of their lives. They continue to lead a lifestyle on the hedonic treadmill.
Conversely, I have seen young adults leave higher education unmotivated by their studies. Are they still successful even if they choose to go down another avenue? Some of these individuals have skillsets better suited to a more hands-on…
