What Is Success?

What is success?
So many people have so many different ideas about what success is and what it isn't. If you were to ask a business man, he would say that success is closing on that big deal for his firm. Ask a painter and they'll tell you it's getting the colors just right on their painting. Based on these examples, you can tell that one man's opinion doesn't work for someone else.

So how do you define success?

My operational definition for success includes following your dreams and doing what makes you happy. There are already so many things out there that can make one miserable, so why add to that by making yourself do something you really don't want to do? Hard work must be included because hard work is how you get places. Success is when you change and become better. If you are a better person than you were the day before, then you are successful in what you are doing.

Don't let someone else's definition of success define you. Go out there, work hard, live your dreams and be happy with what you are doing.