Weekly Entry ... Cynthia

Success

What is success? By definition success is to get the favorable or desirable outcome or result. But nowadays this concept is sometimes forgotten or misunderstood which makes success sound like always winning, being better than others and getting tons of money. It is complicated to define appropriately the word success and a lot of people use it in very different ways. But I really think success has a more personal meaning and for each person is a different thing. That is the main reason that it is so important to find our own meaning for success so that we can succeed in our own way.

Society has taught us to believe that to succeed we need to be the best in every single thing we do. The way I see it we do not necessarily need to. Success is a matter of perception.  Of course being the best and winning is great and very important, but sometimes you can consider your results as great too even if you were not the best. Sometimes you learn more by losing than by winning and that may be considered as success as well. The most important thing is to always keep in mind the lessons we learn from each experience.

Another common belief society has taught us is that success depends on the money you gain and have. I really do not agree because as proven by some studies, the people with more money are sometimes the least happy people and I do believe that success involves happiness. Of course sometimes money can make someone happy and feel successful but as there is more money we are begin to expect more and more and it comes a time that we never end the obsession with being rich. In this way money affects us negatively because it becomes a sort of endless addiction that bring as result loneliness which we can say in most cases is not a source of happiness nor success.

My personal belief is that success means being able to achieve your personal goals and be satisfied with yourself for being you. Unfortunately it is not easy to succeed. You must work to achieve your personal goals and that takes persistence, concentration, effort and the most important thing is to never give up. Success involves doing everything in your hands to achieve your goals, never taking no for an answer and giving an extra effort to get further and further each time improving and improving.