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Definition Of Success Essay

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For the first time in my life, I disagree with the dictionary. Success is defined as a

favorable result, or the gaining of wealth, position, and other similar things. My definition of

success is one that is never truly attainable. So, in a way, there exists a "super-success", which

can be defined as one's end goal. In life, one can never truly obtain their greatest wish, so that

cannot be success; and for me, it is not. Success (in my mind) is achieving your goals, doing

what you love every day, and being content with your choices in life.

The achievement of things you have set out to do is likely the closest to what most would

classify as success. This is even a definition that the dictionary could hold (or maybe even does, …show more content…

Any person can find what they love and do it every day, but not everyone can be content

with their life choices. I specifically avoided using the word ‘happy’ instead of ‘content’ because

success is not defined as happiness. Can a successful person be sad? Of course they can!

Anybody can, and everybody is (occasionally). I, for example, am easily stressed, and because

this am not always the happiest person on the planet. But I am content with all my choices in life.

I am on the exact path that I would like to be on, and it is my own decisions that have led me

here. This final point is what makes success so hard to achieve, as many people cannot make the

right decisions, or have not made the right decisions, and that has pushed him off their set course

toward their end goal. So far in my life, I feel as though all of the major variables that I control

have been controlled in such a way so that they allow me to be on the path to the other two topics

I've discussed; and that is success.

For one to say that the combination of being content with life choices, doing what you

love and achieving your goals along the way is not success is unimaginable to me. So, for

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