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Sunday, December 5, 2010

Salam Maal Hijrah - What Success Means to Me


What Success means to me? What is success? Is it something out our reach? Can we attain it? Are there universal laws of success? To me success is feeling of attainment. It may not be in a very materialistic sense. For success to occur there has to be a goal, a desire to achieve that goal, working for that goal and attainment of that goal.

I can safely say that success is 90% dependent upon mental strength. Is hard work key to success? Not fully. It must be combined with mental strength. Success is a purely subjective feeling.

What is success for you may not be the same for me. So success does not follow any definite parameters of achievement. A same person can both be successful and failure at the same time. For e.g. Pop star Michael Jackson was highly successful as a pop singer but he failed miserably on the personal front. Don't measure your success or failure against social norms. Look within your self. What do you want to achieve? What will give you real happiness? It may not be wealth and power. It may be some great moments with your family and loved ones. So define what success means to you and start working towards attaining it.

What success means to you ? Salam Maal Hijrah...:-)