What does success look like to you?
Success in your work, moving up the corporate ladder to accomplish great things in your career?
Success in your finances to have the freedom to live the life you want to live?
Success in your parenting to raise obedient kids who are successful in their own adult life?
Success in your relationships, success in your health, success in your spirituality?
Do we think that at some point we will have “arrived” at this place we dream of as success? What will that place look like? How will we know when we’ve reached it? What will we do then?
“Success is not a future event – it is the progressive realization of worthwhile goals.” – Dan Miller (48 Days to the Work You Love – affiliate link)
What if you are experiencing success right now? What if success is not a place you can get to, but a way you can live, every day?
We dream of success, when we can choose to live in success.
We dream of arriving, but the truth is that the joy isn’t found at the destination; the fulfillment, the accomplishment, the success we are searching for isn’t found when we get there, it is only found in the moments along the way.
The trials, the struggles, the hard work are what make success worth it. Because they teach us how strong we really are. They teach us what matters. And they teach us that we can always move forward. That each day we can become a better version of ourselves.
You won’t one day become successful. You are successful right now, today. As you move through each day, growing, learning, striving to become the best version of you that you can be. That is success.
Dream, plan, press forward, and realize success is right where you are.
Enjoy your journey.
I feel like sometimes, we get so caught up in the day-to-day, that we also forget to give ourselves credit for the successes we’ve already had, because we are often on to the next challenge. My sister found an old journal of mine with goals in it (from when I was a teenager) and informed me I had achieved all but one of the goals in it. What an eye-opener!!
Thanks for the perspective!