The Definition of Success and How to Be Successful

Success can mean different things to different people. The definition of success can change for a person at different stages of their life. A person's culture, family, friends, experiences, and environment can be a big influence on defining what success is to that individual. We all hear the stories of people failing and failing until one day they make it to the top, beat the bad guy or pass the trial. The story can also go that they got all they desired or raised up from the ashes. All of these have one thing in common, it is at the end of the story. It's never the beginning or middle. It's always at the end of the story that the person succeeds in their quest. But why does it have to be at the end? Simply, like how there is no good without evil. You can not have succeed without struggling and failing first.

 Everyone’s vision of success is different. Wealth, happiness, and fame are all the stereotypical goals of the common person’s so-called “American Dream.” My American dream includes more of the first two aspects than anything else. Happiness is the most important; without happiness, wealth and fame are useless. Without happiness, success cannot exist. If you cannot look at yourself in the mirror and evaluate your own life as a success, then why should anyone else consider you successful? Wealth can contribute to happiness. No matter what anyone says, having more material goods makes your standard of living better, which normally is a direct connection to happiness. Fame, to me, isn’t needed but rather acquired through the life of the successful person. A legacy is more honorable than fame, because after death fame is a more humble characteristic. Changing others lives, after they looked at your life in retrospect, makes fame an irreplaceable part in success.

Undoubtedly success can only be defined by the individual. In the video, “What’s Your Definition of Success?”, a man explains that success are the smiles he receives from his wife and child. To me this is the best response because it explains that happiness should be the ultimate goal, and you will be successful no matter the outcome as long as you are happy with how you achieved your goals.

Being a success in life is great because you may have alot of money, people will respect you, and Your life in general will be great but, its not all that easy. There are many challenges that come with being successful, and there is a long hard path to go down if you do want to be successful. Being successful is not something given to you, it is something that is earned. So, what makes a person successful?

Contrary to what may be popular belief, success is not solely monetary. Arianna Huffington, founder of Huffington Post, says “To live the lives we truly want and deserve, and not just the lives we settle for, we need a Third Metric, a third measure of success that goes beyond the two metrics of money and power” (Business Insider). Success is fundamentally measured on a personal level, it’s a matter of achieving our goals. Goals can be minuscule or substantial in size, but whatever extent of greatness, a goal is a goal. Success can be losing those last few pounds, finding time to pursue a hobby, saving up for a weekend getaway, etc. Once these “small-scale” objectives are reached, they bring a matter of satisfaction with them. Establishing beforehand what success looks like to us individually will help bring on this feeling of vindication.

I define success as having peace of mind in knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of, and being happy and fulfilled in that. It’s important to grow and build up to be successful. I don’t feel as though success should be determined based solely on a career, but through a balance of all aspects of life. I also feel that success is achieving goals, and being respected for what you can contribute. My grandmother, Jane, has been quite successful throughout her life. I believe this because she has had a very respectful career, a good education, and still maintained a positive family and social life. She has now retired early, and is living feeling fulfilled and happy with where her choices have taken her.

Everybody has at least failed once, but there is always success behind everything you do. If you fail at something don’t give up. Success is not that far behind.

"What is the definition of success to someone mean?" The meaning of success to me is family and friends. There are many reasons that why this is a success. Family and friends are a symbol of happiness which will lead to a strong success. Also success could mean to graduate and get a job. There are many definitions to success. This is what success means to me.

There are different ways to define what it means to be successful in your first semester at college. For some it means just passing, others it can mean getting As. It can even simply mean you made it through and didn’t give up. For me it meant making it though without giving up on myself and making my father proud since I am the first person in our direct family who has completed any of college. There were many factors that have made me successful so far, and that I hope will carry me thorough the last few weeks of my other classes so I can maintain my status of success.

How do you define Success? Success is defined by several different positive achievements in a persons life. For example, Graduating college, getting a high paying job and having a profitable business are only a few popular definitions of success.

The new, big, crazy building is all confusing to everyone. There are different side of “G” and “H” hallway, and no one knows where “F” hall is. But, everything will be okay, I have been in your shoes when I was a freshman. To be successful in school you have to be organized, make new friends, and do not be in or start conflicts with people.

One of the meanings of the word success is the accomplishment of one’s goals. Throughout our lives we make a lot of goals because we want to be happy with ourselves. The majority of the time we make a goal it’s because we are motivated. We get ready to do anything it takes to accomplish our goals because we believe we can. But people set aside their goals for numerous reasons. I myself have set aside goals of my own numerous of times. The one goal that seems to bother me often is working out on a consistent basis because I feel that I am very unsuccessful in this category. Working out is very important to me because It’s something I want to do for the rest of my life. Not only does working out make me feel happy and productive, I care a lot about what my body looks like. After reading Chapters One through Nine in Jeff Olson’s The Slight Edge: Turning Simple Disciplines into Massive Success & Happiness, I have come to the realization of why people who are capable of success, never see it. He explains that there are small things we can do daily that will lead us to a life of success. In Chapter One “The Beach Bum and The Millionaire” Olson calls these things, “simple daily disciplines” (10). For these past three weeks I have been religiously practicing Olson’s guidelines and my progress has been unsteady.

How is success defined? A few may say that your success is solely defined by one’s intelligence or numerable degrees framed on their wall, I don’t believe that 's necessarily true. The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines success as “The fact of getting or achieving wealth, respect or fame.” or, “The correct or desired result of an attempt.” Several of history’s famous individuals succeeded in life with only a high school education or less. So is a college education truly necessary to become successful in life?

Most people commonly describe success, as being wealthy in life. This is not the meaning entirely, the definition of success is simple. A person is successful, if he or she has very good payment at his or her work and if he or she is happy with the job, they are doing. Education really leads to success. If a person has good education, he or she can choose their careers and be successful at it. Education is a form of learning in which the knowledge and skills is being transferred from a group of people to another or from a generation to the next, through teaching and training. Any experience that has a formative effect on the way someone thinks feels and acts can be said to be educational. Apart from education, other different traits lead

Oscar Wilde once said, "Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result." I propose to study the science of success in that I further study the definitions of success by gender. It is an in-depth study of success itself and what drives men and women to their successes and how they have succeeded. The value of this research is that it will show how people think of success without researcher bias, and it will demonstrate similarities and differences in the definition of success between men and women, and therefore their motivations in achieving success. It will show how companies, organizations, institutions, and structures (family, etc.) assist or inhibit the pursuit of success. Various companies, institutions, organizations and social structures can use this information about success. By examining how men and women were successful in their careers, and what drove them to success, people can use this research to teach workers, students, families, and individuals to emulate these behaviors/success criteria.