Define Success

What is success? When you think of that word, does someone come to mind? Is it something you achieve with money and power? For me success is a lifetime spent giving of yourself. How did someone show love? Did they show kindness, sincerity, did they know their faults and accept them, did they accept others and their faults? Does someone accepts others at face value, no judgement, sees beyond appearance, looks to someone’s heart? Good people see the bad but also work towards pulling out the good. Success shouldn’t be determined mid life but at the end of it. Nobody is the same person they started out to be. Well you know that they…. referencing something from twenty years ago, does not define a person. Who are they now? Did they learn from it? That is what I want to know.

I like reconnecting with people from my past. I love seeing the change. The pleasant surprises that you never would have thought for that person. Skip through your own life five years at a time, surely you are a better person. Certainly time has changed you for the better. If not, why not, it is never too late to do better. Do you turn away from certain types of people? Maybe we see a little bit of the things we don’t like in ourselves and can’t face it in someone else. Perhaps you decided that certain habits and behaviours are incapable of change. Aunt Lou did that and she was a wretched old lady, why?

Some would say success is achieving your goals.What about motivation to continue making new goals? What about triumph when you overcome obstacles?A successful day can lead to a successful week, month, year and ultimately a lifetime. Perhaps the only one to measure success in your life is you. What you place value on is really personal choice. Whatever that looks like is your decision alone. I measure my success in kindness, love and acceptance. I want my legacy to be the good I did, not what I have. 💗