Let's Talk About Success

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Everyone wants to become successful.

But what is success anyway?

If wanting success means getting everything 100% correct,

if wanting success means getting all As for grades,

well, sorry, but I don't want it.

Successful is defined by how far can you go when you put your 100% efforts.

And results may vary within each individual.

Let's take running as an example.

If you put your 100% effort, you may run as fast as a car, or a rocket, or even as fast as lightning.

But, we need to remember,

there are people,

(many of people actually)

who also work as hard as you do,

who put their very 100% effort to run,

but they can only sprint 1 feet away,

they can only go 1 meter away,

or they might not be able to run, or even move, at all

So, should we just ignore the 'finish' line?

Should we just walk gracefully on the track, ignoring other racers, a.k.a our competitors, and ignoring the cheers by the ones who are supporting us?

No.

I am not telling you not to get As.

But, what I am trying to tell you,

you may work as hard as everyone else, but your results may not be the same as their results.

So, when you receive your results,

whether they are good or bad,

use them to reflect on ourselves.

By reflecting our efforts through our results, we will always be driven to move foward, regardless of the results of other people.

We should compare our results to others only for analysis and reference, not as a direct scale of the value of our efforts.

In simple words, whatever that you do, just do your best, and reflect on your actions.

In this way, whatever level you are on, you are getting better and better at your very best.

That is what defines success.

That is what we want when we say,

"We want to become successful."