Sunday, April 18, 2010

Chapter Six "Whose Success"

“People care about success, though, and want it. But what is it?” This is a good question to ask your self? I think success means having a stable career and a happy life. Success can mean a different thing to everyone because it’s what you believe is success. Guiliano feels that success means “it’s about managing expectations-you expectations and likely those of the people closest to you.” I totally agree with her.

Making goals is a good way to help you become successful. “Setting and managing our own expectations defines success and the path to balance and happiness.” You should make short-term goals because long-term goals can become frustrating, depressing or even worse. Making benchmarks are more realistic and can be accomplished in a reasonable time. When accomplishing the short-term goal or benchmarks you feel better and can make a new goal or go farther with you first goal.

As your life goes on our definition of success will change with the phases in your life. It may change when you start your career or start a family. You will have to change your goals as you move forward in life. Like if you start your family your goals will change because you have to think about your family’s best interest first. This means your idea of success might change now to maybe like buying a new house or saving for your children. All that matters is that you feel that you have been successful because success can mean anything.

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