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Manage Your Career - What Is Success?
Posted by admin | Posted in Success | Posted on 25-01-2009
Everyone in life wants to be a success. Success is a state of mind. You are able because you think you are able!
Different people perceive success differently at different points in their lives. When you are younger you identify success with a high flying career and oodles of disposable income. On the flipside, as you grow older you are more susceptible to fall prey to the fallacy of success being the proportional to your social standing.
Whatever your definition is, it sure is susceptible to change and there’s always scope for improvement.
One thing that is common amongst everyone is that everyone wants to be successful and conforms to the fact that there’s nothing so fulfilling in life!
Just take time out and think what success actually means to you. Jot down your definition of success in the space below or on a piece of paper. Think hard and think clear. Make sure you are specific.
Do not carry on reading this until you have done so.
If you haven’t filled in the above space do it now! Don’t cheat yourself! A number of factors influence your definition of success.
How is your definition of success formed?
- Your upbringing
- Your beliefs
- Your traits
- Your attitude
- Your peers
- Society
- The crests and troughs you have been
Subconsciously you have encompassed all of the above factors while putting down what success means to you.
All of the above will contribute as to what success means to you.
Success is not necessarily achieving every goal you set, but how enriched you came out striving to achieve it. Don’t shun your mistakes; take them in your stride because these are nothing but valuable life lessons, which in hindsight look like golden words of advice thrown at you by life itself.
There is a myth that states that people are born winners or born losers. Nothing could be further from the truth.
There are techniques, methods and ways of behaving that will enable and help you to succeed. Certain latent attributes can determine whether you will succeed or not. These are not attributes you need to inculcate; we all have them. All you need is a little clarity of thought and voila the revelations will rain in!
You owe it to yourself to get the most out of your life. The worst thing that you can do is to look back in 40 or 50 years time and say, ‘I wish I had done this’ or ‘I wish I had done that’
So don’t shy away from treading where your heart is set! Making sure, you are in the right career will solve half of your life’s problems.
If you feel life hasn’t been too fair with you, don’t lose hope it’s never too late to make a stint in the marathon called life, just needs a little revving up, and you have come to the right place!
Bipolar/depression career success stories?
I feel really hopeless because I couldn’t manage to pursue the career I went to school for (public interest law), and now I’m getting turned down for the kind of jobs I had when I was 19 (I’m 36 now). I sort of put all my eggs in the career basket, so now I just feel like a loser, but still too proud to accept that I can’t have the things I wanted, so I cry all the time instead of making a good effort. I don’t know what’s due to my illness and what’s just my bad character. I can’t stop dwelling on my failures and lost youth, and I have trouble imagining any future I could bear, much less enjoy. I don’t seem to care about anything else anymore. I’ve been like this for a long time, despite all the usual medical and therapeutic approaches. Has anybody here been able to turn things around for themselves under these kind of circumstances? I could use some inspiration. Thank you in advance.
I'm sorry to be so negative -I was just trying to be honest, but I know it sounds a little spoiled of me. I meant "turn things around" pretty broadly. It could mean learning to accept things and find peace with things as they are, or finding a different path that suits you, or getting your confidence back to do what you did before. I know other people have had it harder than I do and have found joy and optimism again, and I would love to follow their examples.
I cant give you any inspirational stories of how someone magically turned their life around - (though Im sure it has, can, and will be done) but it seems that from a Cognitive perspective you are seriously undermining or at least adding to your problems by having such a alack of selp acceptance and worldly acceptance. Unfoirtunately we cant all have what we wantin life - but that doesnt mean that we have to get depressed and down about it.I would contact a specialist career agency for people with MH difficulties and possibly consider volunteering for a whileif its possible.
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I was having a lot of trouble trying to hold down a job and finally ended up on permanent mental disability. After years of feeling worthless and like a failure I finally decided to go back to college, it is hard at times but will be worth it in the end. I’m bipolar and ADD so getting out of bed is an accomplishment for me anymore. Maybe returning to school or volunteering may give you the sense of accomplishment and happiness you are looking for. Good Luck.
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