Before you can truly become successful, you have to know what your actual definition of success is. For some, they see successful as someone who has large home, stylish clothes, fancy cars, and expensive toys. Others have simpler definitions. While one person may feel extremely successful just by being able to support themselves without having to work a traditional job, others may see that as a real failure.
Personally, I see myself as extremely successful. I’m not yet as successful as I know I can be someday. In the future, I see myself having enough money to help others on a regular basis through charitable donations. Once I am making enough money to not only pay my own bills, but to help those less fortunate without harming my own lifestyle, I will consider myself as successful as I personally wish to be.
You may feel that if you don’t drive a luxury vehicle and live in a mansion, you’re not yet successful. And that’s fine, in my opinion. Whatever you personally feel successful means is just fine for you.
The point is, how will you know when you’ve become “successful” if you don’t know what that means? Success in business is very arbitrary. For me, I consider myself already successful, even though I’ve cut down my bills to bare essentials in order to scrape by. While most people would see turning off their cell phone and eating rice and beans at almost every meal as a massive failure, I see it as success. Why? Because I’m doing it on my own. I don’t answer to a boss, I work my own hours, and I am free to choose my own destiny.
Am I as successful as I want to be? Not by a long shot. But do I consider myself a failure? Absolutely not! I have done more than I ever thought I could, and it will only get better from here!
