Success, again

Friday.

This is the sort of thing we call “success Friday”; reason being that I would like to write about success.

Some have defined success as the progressive realization of a person’s goals. The probably elongated the textbook definition of it, but this one is enough for me; and it should be for you.

To expound on it I will start from the end phrase; the realization of one’s goals. This means that there have to be goals in the first place. No goals, no success. In short, there has to be a benchmark for comparison; something independent of the objective, if you get what I mean.
Next is the fact that the realization of goals has to be progressive. If you achieve your goals today and fail to do so the next day to the extent that you go back to where you were initially, that does not count as success. This is the sort of thing that screens true success from kugwera (coincidence).

Before some misquote me, progressive does not mean that all will be smooth. Somewhere, things may go wrong, but successful people bounce back and rise above challenges. The point is, however that there has to be something about the success that can deliberately be replicated and result and result in the achievement of yet another bigger goal.

Then comes the other thing I omitted from the textbook definition of success. Success is multifactorial. It doesn’t help to be too successful academically but to be a failure morally. Obviously not a good idea to be successful in spirituality and still be poor (not saying you should ask God for “miracle money”). The point is just that success should be balanced in all disciplines of life.

What bundles the few paragraphs here together? Well. Success is deliberate. It is about setting goals and pursuing them.
Does it mean that those who are not successful did it deliberately? Well. Not sure. All I know is that those who succeed do it deliberately, while those who do not… well, those ones do not plan anything at all. They might stumble upon something that lifts them for a while but it might not always be sustained.

Wanna have a sustained realization of goals? Plan it.

Woza Friday.