What Is Your Definition Of Success?
As individuals the lenses we look through as we observe the world, combined with our life experience, will affect our actions, or lack thereof, and therefore, our definition of success.
Money is the common measure of business success. Anyone that can make and keep lots of it is often judged to be more “successful†than someone without as much money. That is definitely a way to quantify a type of success, but true success is in the eyes of the beholder. This gets us back to the way, as individuals, we see things.
I admit that I look at the world through the lens of a Biblical perspective (Matthew 6:24 No one can serve two masters…you cannot serve both God and money.) As a result many of you will see things differently than I do and that’s OK. There is no reason we can’t agree to disagree on certain things and still remain friends. For instance, I highly admire Dan Kennedy as a marketing guru and often use and promote his marketing techniques. However, I’m sure we would disagree on many other aspects of life.
Back in 1970 at the age of 27 I married my lovely 24 year old sweetheart, Lynda. Prior to marriage we discussed many things as many young couples do. We decided that for us family was going to be more important than money and things. We were not so naive to believe that we could live without money, it’s just that from our viewpoint it was a secondary issue. Thirty nine years later here we are with four wonderful adult children and 11 grandchildren ranging in age from 5 month to 15 years. We all live within a 7 mile radius, we all attend and are active in the same local church and we all continue to do lots of things together as families.
Looking back over all those years it has not always been easy, but I have truly been blessed. I have a fantastic family and, although I don’t have as much money as some, I have what I need and what I want.
So how is this post going to help you with your business? Maybe it wont, but I hope it will at least encourage some of you to realize that true success and happiness is not all about money.
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