{"id":6678,"date":"2023-10-25T22:29:26","date_gmt":"2023-10-25T20:29:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/predication.net\/?p=6678"},"modified":"2023-10-25T22:32:06","modified_gmt":"2023-10-25T20:32:06","slug":"6678","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/predication.net\/?p=6678","title":{"rendered":"What does it mean to be successful?"},"content":{"rendered":"
The great philosopher Thomas Carlyle once wrote: “Let everyone become what he is capable of becoming, what he was created to be.” A better definition of success, I can’t think of it. Life is a daily challenge to maximize our abilities. We succeed if we go within our abilities to the highest goal – giving our best. The quote before this chapter says that success is about doing, not getting. I want to emphasize this point to you. Life from us doesn’t want us to always be on top. It only asks us to be at the top… to do our best in our current experience. That’s precisely what successful people do in some of the most critical areas of life: \u00a0Successful people take life as it is, with all its difficulties and challenges. They adapt to it rather than complain about it. They accept responsibility for their lives rather than blaming others or making excuses. They embrace life despite its negatives and always make the most of it. \nSuccessful people develop and maintain a positive attitude towards life. They look for the good in other people and the world around them and usually find it. They see life as a series of opportunities and possibilities that must be explored. Successful people build good interpersonal relationships. They can perceive the needs and feelings of others. They are considerate and polite. They can inspire others to perform at their best; successful\u00a0people have a sense of direction and purpose – they know where they are going. They set goals, achieve them, and then put more. They like to take on challenges. Successful people crave new knowledge about life, the world, and themselves. Themselves. Learning is a pleasure for them, not an obligation. They are constantly enriching their lives with new knowledge and self-improvement. They are always discovering something new and growing internally. Successful people are active. They finish what they start because they are unafraid of hard work and have no time. They use it creatively. They don’t get bogged down in routine, and they don’t get bored because they’re always looking for new experiences. \nThe moral level of successful people is high. They know that honesty is \none of the most essential parts of a reasonable person’s character. They honor the truth in their personal and public lives. Successful people understand the difference between merely existing and living and always choose real life. They get the best out of life because they put their best to it. They reap what they sow. They rejoice in life as much as they can. \nWhat opportunity do we have to be genuinely successful? Many\u00a0people in today’s society … don’t take advantage of their opportunities. Perhaps it is that their environment doesn’t encourage them; maybe it holds them back… SIA, creativity, and society’s growth depend on how much we can develop people’s talents and abilities. John Gardner: This quote was printed in large letters and hung on my classroom wall for years. It reminded me and my students that many have not realized our self-fulfillment. John Gardner was Secretary of Health, Education, and Social Services, founder of the Common Course, and author of several books. He wrote that too many people must take full advantage of their abilities in one of them. This is because of environmental influences. I agree with him. We are blinded by much information that has nothing to do with success. We’re forced to look for quick fixes instead of focusing on our internal resources. If we focus on them, we will find them and our capacity remains untapped. We will only end up realizing our limitations, not our possibilities. \nBut once we become aware of this situation, we can do something about it, and that’s the positive thing about the whole thing. That’s why I used to have another one alongside Gardner’s quote: Good news: You have the best part of your life that may be ahead of you. And if you choose to take advantage of it, neither in age nor in It doesn’t matter at all – because you have yet to start using 90% of capabilities and have yet to discover them. This is not just word, but downright incredible news! \nTim Hansei \nTim Hansel is an adventurer, speaker, author of six books, and a man who wants to get the most out of life. He’s also a former colleague and close friend of mine. When we taught psychology together a few years ago, he constantly urged our students to look inward and inside themselves. To discover what’s good in them and what their potential is. We encouraged them to become more and do more. What a surprise it was to find that these 18-year-olds had never done anything like this before. About a year later, I challenged the University of San Francisco students to do the same task. They were in their thirties and forties; some were older. And guess what I learned? They had never studied anything about their capabilities. At the end of the extensive class discussion, one forty-seven-year-old woman summed up the issue this way, “I would say that …you’re right. We spend a lot of time on superficial activities. We seem to be we don’t realize our potential.” But as she reminds us in the quote, Thus – it is good that many of us have yet to discover our possibilities. And that’s also one of the most important messages of this book. Whether we are young or old, whether we have a nine-year degree or a doctorate, we can still learn something about our possibilities, about how to become the kind of person we are capable of becoming. Looking inside ourselves, we will find the resources needed to become successful people.<\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"