There is a word in your vocabulary that has to be the most abused and misunderstood word in the English language. This word is used to describe what most people want, and spend their lives looking for. It is available to everyone with very little effort, and costs nothing: your age or station in life is definitely not a factor, yet only about three percent of us have never found it.
You guessed it, the word is SUCCESS. What is success? That is a good question. I have read thousands of definitions but I have yet to find a better one than the definition I received from Earl Nightingale close to thirty years ago.
Success is the progressive realization of a worthy ideal.” If you know where you are, you know where you are going, and you are progressively moving your life in the direction of your dream or goal then you are successful. Only 3% of the people you are surrounded by have a clearly defined goal written in a definite statement. Most individuals wander through life dreaming and they go to their grave with their dreams still inside them. Decide what you want. Write it out and get moving. Be successful.
August 3, 2010
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