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What is YOUR definiton of the word success?
What does it mean to you?
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Success to me:
=Happiness
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Success = getting the balance right between family, work, 'community', andindependence,accepting that the balance will shift in different directions over time. Money and status areimportant, and a by-product of achieving this balance.
Howdo I recognise it? The sense of satisfaction and accomplishment I feel in relation to whatI achieve in each domain, on the basis that I've done all that is humanly possible. And where I haven't, accepting that too.
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26-03-07, 10:52 AM
Le Moor - great minds think alike..was going to ask the same question.
For me, success is a clear conscience.
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26-03-07, 11:30 AM
Realisation/achievement of self defined goals, as such it can not be externally attributed to an individual by somebody else.
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26-03-07, 12:14 PM
The Watcher - in essence, success is in the eye of the beholder so just to widen the goalpoats a bit. Maybe the question should be what is your definition of success with the wider community or the African community in mind. How do all the individuals who make up that community attribute success to that community.
I come from that school called mug where my individual achievements don't mean much if my people can't enjoy it with me and me theirs and while Africa is under bondage. If it's about acadmeic achievement, money, holidays, house, car, the experience of 'husband/wife 'and child all resident under one roof i.e. family, then I've been very successful in the realisation and achievement of self defined goals....even if they turn out to be temporary.
Is the reality hat with no community wide defined goals, even personal success is less achievable when other people are involved in the equation..hence expressions like independant woman?
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26-03-07, 12:27 PM
...hence expressions like independant woman and the reality of looking out for number 1.
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Le Moor - great minds think alike..was going to ask the same question.
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Le Moor - looks like you got the last laugh, you know the saying, he who laughs last....is the slowest 
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SoulRebel wrote:
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Success = getting the balance right between family, work, 'community', andindependence,accepting that the balance will shift in different directions over time. Money and status areimportant, and a by-product of achieving this balance.
Howdo I recognise it? The sense of satisfaction and accomplishment I feel in relation to whatI achieve in each domain, on the basis that I've done all that is humanly possible. And where I haven't, accepting that too.
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Great rendition......Key words for me here are the words BALANCE, FAMLY and WORK
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SUCCESS is............not having the feeling that there is something lacking in your life!
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There are those who feel that the only way to ‘prove their own worth’ is by ‘devaluing the worth of others’. You will often find that a man who is compelled to measure his substance against the substance of another, has little of substance in the first place!
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11-04-07, 11:55 PM
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What is YOUR definiton of the word success?
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To me success is achieving the goals you set for yourself. Although it's easily done, I don't think it's good to measure your success based on other peoples' percpetion or definition of it if it doesn't work for you.
Sometimesthe goal can be as simple as making sure you have something proper to eat in the morning or leaving the house 5 minutes earlier to get to work on time.
Withlonger term goals the success is in progressing through the stepping stones or barriers that you will face in order to reach the bigger goals. Determination plays a big part too. Even when it seems tougher to reach the bigger goals you will get back up with determination that the success will continue GURANTEED.
It's also important to acknowledge the success you are making. At least if you get to work on time that's one less contact you have to make for the day with you wonderful bosssmoking-devil.
“If people around you aren't going anywhere, if their dreams are no bigger than hanging out on the corner, or if they're dragging you down, get rid of them. Negative people can sap your energy so fast, and they can take your dreams from you, too.”
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11-04-07, 11:56 PM
...ok now these bugs are starting to bug me  ...me gaan a mi bed...
“If people around you aren't going anywhere, if their dreams are no bigger than hanging out on the corner, or if they're dragging you down, get rid of them. Negative people can sap your energy so fast, and they can take your dreams from you, too.”
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