Success

What is success to you? Every human being wants success. Everybody wants the best this life can offer. Nobody enjoys crawling, living in mediocrity. No one likes feeling second-class and feeling forced to go that way. Take as long as you need to define success in your life. According to David Schwartz success means many wonderful, positive things. Success means personal prosperity: a fine home, vacations, travel, new things, financial security, giving your children maximum advantages. Success means winning admiration, leadership, being looked up to by people in your business and social life. Success means freedom: freedom from worries, fears, frustrations, and failure. Success means self-respect, continually finding more real happiness and satisfaction from life, being able to do more for those who depend on you. Success means winning. Success-achievement-is the goal of life! Probably not all of you will agree with this definition of success. You have the freedom to define yours and yours alone. The most important principle to remember is: "Because I failed I am not a failure." In order to succeed you need to fail and then get back up and move forward. There is no other way. Most of us are so afraid to fail. That's why the best definition of success is: Success = Failure + a Lesson. So go out there and fail, learn a lesson from it and never repeat that mistake. That is a sure way to success.

Sir Edmund Hillary was the first man to climb Mount Everest. On May 29, 1953 he scaled the highest mountain then known to man-29,000 feet straight up. He was knighted for his efforts. You see, in 1952 he attempted to climb Mount Everest, but failed. A few weeks later a group in England asked him to address its members. Hillary walked on stage to a thunderous applause. The audience was recognizing an attempt at greatness, but Edmund Hillary saw himself as a failure. He moved away from the microphone and walked to the edge of the platform.

He made a fist and pointed at a picture of the mountain. He said in a loud voice, Mount Everest, you beat me the first time, but I’ll beat you the next time because you’ve grown all you are going to grow… but I’m still growing!

And remember: The only limits on your life are the ones you set yourself. God Bless, Tiberius Apavaloaie