Personal success has been always one of judgment criteria in every culture. One can say that success doesn’t need to be based on fancy job, respectful and prestigious career or other attributes of elite life.
Success may be simple happy life and simple satisfaction from life, from what you are doing and what you like. It’s basically about self-realization and self-satisfaction. Success and personal achievements have been always an integral part of what is called “an American dream” and what can be now called “ modern dream”. It’s all about hard work, persistence, purposefulness, pursuit of happiness and harmony with you and the surrounding.
People sometimes are jealous to someone’s achievements and merits, better financial position or happy personal life, justifying that those are simply luckier than they are. But it’s not true. A person is the only reason of his fortunes and fortunes, he is the only one who creates his life and he is the only one who builds his happiness, personal success and prosperity. Booker T. Washington once said, “Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed. ” These words have a lot of meaning.
One cannot know what is real happiness and what is success when he has nothing to compare it with. May be everyone once wondered what feels a person who has everything, but it would be better to ask the same question in a bit different way “what feels a person who had everything”. Personal happiness and success are the matters of once character traits, his will and beliefs. A person who has a purpose and who is determined will achieve what he wants and the obstacles he meets will make the way to his goal sweater and tastier. At this point it’s impossible to talk about success if there is no optimism and belief in the dream.The example of Thomas Edison is a good example of a successful man, successful businessman and successful inventor and scientist.
He could spend thousands of hours and thousands of dollars on his experiments, and basically thanks to his hard work and persistence he achieved such results in the areas, where everyone would definitely give up. He said about him “I have not failed 700 times. I have not failed once. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.
”Besides optimism and persistence another key factor to a success is confidence and love of what you are doing. If a person combines these traits and is really enthusiastic and happy about his work he will definitely succeed “ Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. ” ( Albert Schweitzer).
It’s impossible to talk about success if there is no happiness, because in such case a person won’t feel the success himself if he is not satisfied with something. As it was told success lies in harmony with surrounding, person’s inner world and happiness.The pursuit of success and self-realization is the goal nearly of every man’s life. Happiness and success are the integral components of each other and are those soul conditions that everyone seeks during his life. But to gain success it’s not enough to have a high dream.
To achieve it one should work hard, taste the savor and bitter taste of the obstacles in order to fully enjoy the happy moments of his life. It’s a real hard way to go, but purposefulness and optimism are those key factors that will help one to overcome anything on his way and achieve what he deserves.
