How you define the word -Success- will determine your success!
Read over 20 definitions of success from workplace leaders. Agree or disagree with them. Create your own definition, and add it to our comments.
1. Your definition of -Success- determines your goals and actions. If you are not careful about how you define success you may head down the wrong path, and you mayend up in a place that doesn't give you the fulfillment and happiness you envision.
You must continually review and, if necessary, adjust your definition of success, because you are constantly getting new information and ideas.
2. Your achievement, or lack of achievement of -Success- based on your definition, determines your self-esteem. How you define -Success- can make you feel good or bad about yourself, worthy or unworthy, happy or unhappy. If your expectations are too high, you may never achieve them. If your expectations are too low, you may feel unfulfilled because you never strive to reach your true potential.
3. Your progress towards success leads to more success. The more little steps you take toward fulfilling your definition of success, the more motivated you will be to continue.
So, it makes sense to carefully examine your definition of success.
Below are definitions of success by workplace leaders who subscriber to our newsletter, Employee Morale Tips. Please add your definition of -Success- to the comments section at the bottom of this article.
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Success Its a feeling of one when he/she achieved what they expected after their effort. -
Yasho Latha
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Success is reaching one’s goals while maintaining one’s personal values. Since I value respect, honesty, integrity, knowledge, humor, love, family, the earth, wild life, and a positive outlook on life, my sense of achieving success must include maintaining these values and not harming others.
In other words, reaching a goal or having an accomplishment, regardless of the negative means or cost of that outcome, is not a success.
My definition of success is dependent upon the context in which it is applied. As a three time cancer survivor, my yearly measure of success is living one more year cancer free.
In context of my job as an educator, I am successful if I have helped a student understand, learn or appreciate a concept they had not known. I am also successful if I help other adults to improve the education of students.
As a professional clown, I am successful if I have made another person realize how good they feel inside by doing something unique to touch their life; i.e. I inspire them to smile, smirk, chuckle, or just feel better.
Linda Seaman
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Success = Symbiosis
Charlotte Crowe
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Success is having done your best.
Pat Reiser
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Success to me means that although you don't have all the wealth in the world, your world is okay. You are happy with who you are, what you have achieved in life thus far, and you know that whatever you put your mind to in the future will occur. That's what success is to me.
Tonya - HR Specialist
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Success is being at peace with yourself and making every effort to be at peace with others. It is the ability to demonstrate self control and being a standard setter.
Marva
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Success is found when one understands what he knows, teaches others what he understands, and one day finds himself being taught what he already understood.
Drew Graul, PT, ATC
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"SUCCESS - Is but the respected results of HEART LEARNED failures. Judge not the appearance of a so called 'failure', learn from it, transform it. "
Barbara Holden
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Success is contentment with your life. I feel successful because of where I am in life. I am successful because of my children, my husband, my family, my friends and co-workers. I am successful because the little set backs and let downs in life do not get in the way of moving forward. I try to use those points as a starter to change and become successful in what ever direction they leave me in.
Donna Olkowski
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Success is when people refer to you as a positive roll model.
Katherine E. Nabors
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"Success" to me means being happy in whatever you do.
Paula A. Milmoe
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Simply.... That I made a difference. Success is as much the small ways we make a difference, as are the big efforts that we help to implement. If I have helped to support and assist others, and have made some progress in my own goals and work efforts... it has been a great day.
Patty Walton RN,MS
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I read this quote once and have used it as a guide for my personal life because every day can be a success, and each person can be a success even in the most menial jobs.
I've always felt like morale is lost if we don't place proper emphasis on every job and its importance to the company as a whole. Each person must feel like they are a success from the very bottom of the organizational chain to the top of that same organizational chain.
"Success is achievable without public recognition, and the world has many unsung heroes.
"The teacher who inspires you to pursue your education to your ultimate ability - is a success. The parents who taught you the noblest human principles - are a success. The coach who shows you the importance of teamwork - is a success. The spiritual leader who instills in you spiritual values and faith - is a success. The relatives, friends, and neighbors with whom you develop a reciprocal relationship of respect and support--they, too, are successes.
"The most menial workers can properly consider themselves successful if they perform their best and if the product of their work is of service to humanity."
Quote from Michael DeBakey, M.D. (in Success Secrets of Super Achievers by Stovall)
Becky Neace
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Success to me is defined by the way in which I do the little things in my life, each and every day. Whether it's making my sons breakfast and driving them to school, or simply doing laundry or cleaning a toilet, I try to focus on why I am doing what I am doing, now just WHAT I am doing.
Sometimes this may mean I remembered a coworker or friend's birthday, anniversary, or congratulated them on a job promotion or new baby.
In whatever I do, I try to do it with the intentions of love and kindness, even if it is resolving a computer problem (I am a software analyst by day) or helping with a domestic issue (I am a mental health counselor in the evenings).
Kelly Fixmer
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Satisfaction at the end of the day that you have done your best, achieved your goals, and changed someone's life (yours or theirs) for the better.
Kenneth Tucker, MBA
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For me success is "to know about yourself, to know live to life in this world, to know about this changeable universe, where everything is unstable and insecure."
Su Chandna
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To me success is when people around you start saying " He is a successful man".
Qazi Shujaat Ali
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Success..when someone is really glad to see you and gives you a big smile...now that's success!
Sophia Torjusen
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Success for me....Completion at it's best - profitable and efficient.
Anthony
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For the business person and soldier: To reach goals on time, within budget, and (here is the tricky part) with the organization intact and strong enough to repeat the action.
For the sensitive: Ralph Waldo Emerson said:
"To Laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded."
Kirk Kirksey
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What is your definition of SUCCESS?
Please share it with our readers by adding it to the comments area.
Sucess - having done everything possible andfeeling good about it.
Posted by: sherel amye | September 09, 2008 at 09:15 AM
Success to me is living each day in such a way that if it were my last they could say that I was a person of integrity. No matter what we are trying to achieve if we try to do it in an intergral way, we are successful.
Posted by: Brenda | September 09, 2008 at 10:02 AM
Success... When at the end of the day you put your head on your pillow (pillow test) and ask yourself the question about your days activities,"Glad I did or wish I had." When you answer glad I did ...you had a successful day.
Posted by: ed | September 11, 2008 at 07:49 AM
SUCCESS is becoming the BEST PERSON you can ever be and helping OTHERS become the BEST person they can ever be ! ! !
Posted by: Edzel | September 11, 2008 at 09:23 AM
Success.... Get it what you want to get and work hard to be successful.
Posted by: Nomi | October 08, 2008 at 12:05 PM
Happiness derived by achieving soul oriented goals, with high probability plans, towards profitable projects.
Posted by: Ajit Kaikini | October 15, 2008 at 09:18 PM
Success- Its not just about being successful on a particular day or time.But its more about being successful every day.So for me to be successful each day, Start your day like trying to climb up a ledder and by the end of the each day, reach to its top, inspite of any hurdles coming in the way.That's what counts success for each day.
Internzoo
http://www.internzoo.com
Posted by: Internship | October 30, 2008 at 11:58 PM
Success is mission accomplished.
Posted by: Sam | December 09, 2008 at 08:59 PM
Success work like a juice and it keep you healthy and happy.
It comes through hard work and luck.
Nice tips mention above i really appreciate it.
Posted by: Paul | February 03, 2009 at 05:16 AM