BY JESSICA SCHIEBER
What does success look like? How do we measure it? Is success just passing a test, getting the grade, or is it something more? Does success change something within us or just change what’s around us?
Everyone says that they are rooting for you to succeed, but what does that mean? No one can tell you. It’s different for everyone.
For some people, success could be getting a stable job. For others, it could be having a family.
Success isn’t all about what you do to get a good paying job. It can mean so much more than that to someone. Why are we trying to limit what success is?
Success is all about the joy you have or get from something. Who can tell you that you aren’t succeeding if you are happy?
Your joy is how you measure your success. Let people talk; let them say whatever they want about you. You know your truth; you know what path you are on when no one else does.
You don’t have to know it all, have it all or be famous to be successful. When you think about the most successful people in your life, what is the one thing they all have in common?
One thing I’ve noticed about those people I look up to — and the one thing I can connect between all of them — is that they all have joy for what they do.
It doesn’t matter to them how much money they make or what they can do to get the attention of others; they do the things they do because it brings them joy.
They do things because they want to give back, not because they want to be seen by someone.
Success cannot be measured because it doesn’t look the same for anyone; a 70 on an assignment could be someone’s great, and it could be another person’s failure.
Why do we attempt to measure what cannot be measured? Why are we trying to reason with something that has no place being measured?
We may be in the middle of our success story; we could be starting it, or we could be seeing the results of it. Keep succeeding, keep pushing.
Your success is up to you, control it. Make your story one that the world won’t ever forget, and make the world see you and know that you have joy in being successful.