As I sit here today and think about success and how I want to do this and how I want to do that! How if I do this I will be a success and if I do that I will be a success! I stopped to think for a minute as to what success is! I think success is hearing the words "Honey I love you" and know the words are meant! Success is saying those words and knowing she believes it! Success is hearing the excited words " Daddy is home" Success is caring about my parents and having them know just how much you love them! Taking the time to call them all the time and making them important in my life! Success for me is when I say I love you Mom and Dad , they actually know it and beleive it! Success is having a foundation in my Faith and following it even when it doesnt always suit me! Success is using the knowledge of the past to make the future better and brighter for myself and people around me! Success is to get down on my bended crooked knees and pray and thank the Father for all I have! But most of all for me the greatest success is seeing our little boy kneeling beside me praying too! Thanks for allowing me to share!
Correct. That's why it's overrated. It's lost its true meaning. The same is being done to happiness but true happiness cannot be bought.
I totally agree with you Mr Crow. I think success is letting your loved ones know that you love them and getting their love in return.
Often times we think people we love know that we really care and that we love them. I know for me sometimes I catch myself because I give the computer way way to much attention. I noticed for me its that its not always true that people who I love always know how really important they are to me. I tend to get caught up in the thought "well I am building this business for them" but often times I think they would trade all that for just some free time with me and have my mind on us not on business. As a person who has been through some pretty rough times lately with health issues I would think that I would take more time ... but I am catch myself right now as I write this that I have gone the opposite way and completely spent every waking hour trying to get as much done as possible and lay enough foundations that if I dont get well that I will atleast leave something behind. I think I just caught myself being foolish... isnt that strange, I just got something from my own post!
Thank you All for correcting me for bumping my thread - I am sorry for this but I felt the work I put into this post was slipping by. Rather than ask someone to reply to bump it I just came straight out and bumped it. Thanks for the red reps and for bringing my attention to how to not bump a thread. -
Ok, but aint money a part of "success in life"? A kiddo goes to kindergarten, school, high school, college, finally lands a job and/or starts making lotsa money some other way .. with a novel idea or so ... isnt tht a part of his 'success in life"? Note that I am using the term "success in life" because sucess can be in varied ways! I decide to play a guitar and after months of practice am finally able to play it, isnt that success ? But then I never let my work get over my social life ... the fact is that your family your loved ones can give every single penny for just some moments of happiness! It is definitely an important part of our "success in life" ... The "I do it for them" attitude is wrong, you maybe making millions outta your work, but then trust me... some moments with your loved ones and money is nothing as compared to it! I do agree there with you Mr.Crow ... Btw, great post ... keep them coming! Abhishek
Great thoughts! Thanks for sharing! I too see everyone guaging success with money, and frankly it makes me sick. Our world was not built on money, it has no real place in the world... We'd be much better off with an entirely different system altogether... What, now I have no idea... If it were easy to figure that out, I'm sure we would have done it by now. The "Daddy is Home" is the best thing in the world. That is success right there for sure.