Affirmations for Radical Success and the definition of success
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The definition of Success..
A dictionary can give you a definition of success, but real success is only determined by you. Hitler succeeded in storming across Europe, Napoleon succeeded too, Al Capone, Sam Giancanna, John Gotti, and others succeeded in becoming crime king pins. Stalin succeeded in murdering millions of his own people, Jeffery Dahmer succeeded in being a warped, psychopathic serial killer. Imelda Marcos succeeded in owning the worlds largest shoe collection. Are any of these people a success?
Jesus Christ and Martin Luther King succeeded in getting themselves killed. Mahatma Gandhi and Mother Theresa were dirt poor. Dr. Frederick Banting and Dr. Alexander Flemming saved millions with their medical breakthroughs. Are any of these people a success?
The dictionary definition gives a very basic definition that provides a good place to work from but a dictionary definition is inadequate to provide a platform to base a life on. The dictionary simply states that success is achieving a goal and usually a goal of finance or power. But be careful is financial success real success? Howard Hughes was one of the richest men alive, yet the latter part of his life was spent as a paranoid recluse. More recently, Yasser Arafat - a man who had political power and close to a billion dollars at his disposal -- at the end of his life his achievements were nothing more than being the master mind of countless murders and possibly dying of AIDS.
Your definition of Success
Success is, without question, achieving a goal. But your goal must be a worthy one. Some of the people listed above are true successes in spite of their ignoble ends. Jesus Christ was murdered after 3 years of preaching, teaching and doing miracles, but within a hundred years of his death his 'good news' had spread across the known world. Martin Luther King was murdered before he saw the results of his efforts to bring about civil rights for the oppressed in the USA. Both of these men were huge successes.
Mahatma Gandhi freed India from the British Empire - without an army. Dr. Banting discovered insulin and Dr. Flemming discovered penicillin. Huge successes.
What will your definition of success be? It could be a career goal, maintaining good health, spiritual attainment, emotional, use of time, or finance. The list is much longer than this and can include just about anything. You are going to have to dig very deep inside yourself and do some serious soul searching to discover what success means to you.
Many individuals are doing what they can. But real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and in our economics and in our politics.
-Discovering what success means to you might take a while, it might be a long process. The answer might not come to you immediately. That's ok, the result of your search will be more than worth it.
The process of defining success
Everyone has several roles that they fill in their lives. For instance you have a role as a family member, a role as an employer / employee, you have a role as a neighbour, a role as a citizen. You may have a role as a member of a club, or a team the list can be quite long. Your definition of success will have to encompass all of your various roles. It will also have to include balance.
Consider this -- if you really consider success to be reaching the top of the corporate ladder, are you willing to sacrifice the time away from your family? You might succeed in corporate life but your family life will suffer. What about your social life? If you succeed in becoming the president of the local Rotary club but the energy you invest there means that you might not be performing well at your job, you will be a success at the Rotary but maybe not at work.
A worthy definition of Success
In the list of names at the top of this page there are some very notorious, infamous mad men. In their own eyes they were a success. In the eyes of the rest of the world they are nothing more than criminals who are not worthy of being members of the human race. Your definition of success must be a worthy one. Is it positive? Does it contribute something to others? Is it noble? Is it just? Is it moral?
When you are willing to sacrifice integrity to attain a goal, you might very well attain that goal but you will not be a success.
From the Inside Out
Success is as much a function of character as it is anything else. As a man thinks so he is, as within, so without. From the fullness of the heart the mouth speaks. Regardless of how you define success, if you don't have internal qualities that drive real, true success you will never attain real, true success. In order to develop your inner self, your character you have to change the way you think. The way to change your thoughts is with affirmations. The most powerful way to change your thoughts is with affirmations combined with brainwave entrainment.
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