How Do You Define Success
How do you define success? Thomas Leonard, the father of life coaching (who’s definition of life success is included below) offered that life becomes effortless if your values are well defined.
And one of the areas common, pop-psych life success advice falls short… is in helping individuals define “success.” Where one person’s psychological need is to change the world, another’s is to simply grow children who are loved. When one person desires wealth, another desires service. Nine-tenths the way to success is knowing the success you’re aiming for.
Here are ten iconic “life successes” (and one extra: mine) to prime the pump of YOUR definition of success:
Stephen Covey: “If you carefully consider what you want to be said of you in the funeral experience,” he told the New York Times, “you will find your definition of success.”
Thomas Edison: “Success is 1% inspiration, 99% perspiration.”
Deepak Chopra: “Success in life could be defined as the continued expansion of happiness and the progressive realization of worthy goals,”
Richard Branson: “The more you’re actively and practically engaged, the more successful you will feel.” Life becomes effortless if your values are well defined.~ thomas Leonard, Father of Life coachng
Winston Churchill: “Success is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm,”
Maya Angelou: “Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.”
Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh: “For individuals, character is destiny,” he says. “For organizations, culture is destiny.”
Legendary basketball coach John Wooden (the winningest coach in college basketball history): “Success is peace of mind, which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.”
Huffington Post founder Arianna Huffington: “To live the lives we truly want and deserve, and not just the lives we settle for, we need a Third Metric,” she says, “a third measure of success that goes beyond the two metrics of money and power, and consists of four pillars: well-being, wisdom, wonder, and giving.”
Thomas Leonard, the father of life coaching: By how much he is enjoying his creativity, how much he’s being nurtured by his relationship with God, and how nice of a person he’s being.
Mark Farmer, the founder of LifeSuccessEngine.com: By helping others and myself reach self-defined success.
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