This topic is open to input regarding the most important thing, that is what one thing do you consider to be the MOST important factor to promote success?
example:
6 most important words: Never Never Never Never Give Up
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First i'd like to thanks to Jim Runningfox Moss for inviting me.
Now, there is a question I would certainly like to ask for starters and that is: how do we define success?
Is it business, finances, power, influence, or merely succeeding to make our own life in the way we ought to?
I'm looking forward to hear thoughts from you all!
Cheers
Mac
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Success to me is defined on my day.
Who did I help - Who did I make smile - Did I pray - Did I give thanks etc.......
If I can go to bed at night without worries and wake up in the morning looking foward to my day.......I feel successful
I live a simple life.....
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I have to say, I too live a simple life and live it as Red described.
I guess overall, I would have to say ~ "Be true to other's as well as yourself..."
Blessings!
Cindy
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There can be many definitions of success...for me it has a lot to do with contentment and happiness...but I know that I am striving to be a high achiever also and so hopefully this group can discuss not ony what it takes to lead a fulfilling life, but also concepts of high achievement.
Thank you all so much for your input...
there are no wrong answers
ps - if anyone can tell me how to add the emoticons etc, tell me and I'll add them.
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Thank you all for the answers... I must agree with you all, to feel like we've achieved what we're meant to achived.
To create happiness around us, to spread love, to fight injustices would certainly mean success any day for me!
Cheeers!
Mac.
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A positive attitude is by far the most important thing that I can think of. No matter what goes wrong in my life or in my business I always try to look for a positive lesson, and so far I've always found one (even if it took awhile).
Thought have an energy of their own and when you think negatively you reap negatively.
Well, Tracy, the most important aspect, which has contributed to my successes, is luck. Sounds simple? Yes, it is.
To be successful in life I need luck. Because there are so many things that I can’t control or influence… I saw this when I had to pass my exams. No matter how prepared I was for them, I needed luck to pass them. And there is only one way to influence the future – positive thinking. That means I hope and I try to see the thing that I want solved in the future. This positive thinking has a sort of power upon the future, which makes the things go exactly how I want them to be. If it happens to fail in my actions, it’s because I didn’t hoped enough or because God closed that “door” for me in order to open a new one, much more beautiful.
It’s difficult to be an optimist all the time, but what can I do?
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Positive Thinking.
Absolutely the Be All End All of Success Is Thinking Like You Already Are A Success!
I could quote so many thinkers and speakers and notable businesspeople, but I've learned (through failure!) there is only one way at starting; UP.
You can believe you have a product/service that people want/need. Put everything- time, energy, resources, financial aid into it, but if you don't SEE YOURSELF SUCCEEDING at the task, there is no hope.
I am presently starting up a graphic design and professional photography business with my partner and mate. We are involved in a course through Human Resources Development Canada (a great organization, look into it or the equivalent) to promote small business ventures and avoid the first year pitfalls.
Here's a quote to help keep it real:
"The secret is to fill your mind with thoughts of faith, confidence and security. This will force out or expel all thoughts of doubt, all lack of confidence... Cram the mind full of the healthiest, happiest, most powerful thoughts - become a person of compelling force... confident and inspiring... radiating courage and magnetism."
-Norman Vincent Peale; The Power of Positive Thinking
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For me, the most important factor to any succes is the outlook I have on things. For instance, if I eat a whole apple, it is a succes since I have acclomplished what I intended to... I think too, that success can be measured by the faillures that one has encountered while trying to acchieve the "goal"...
every baby step was a success only after I had failled by falling a few times.
When I was little, I could never finish an apple by myself... but I keept trying, and trying, and one day... I did it...
faillures is a key to succes, and trying and trying again is another key... and respect is a master one... so I think that success is only a sum of SUCCESSive faillures, perseverances and respects, (selfrespect is a strong one) that all together made me stronger and made me what I am today.
Now, I sometimes FAIL to remember about these little "ones" that in fact made of my life the success that it is.
Perhaps after a few faillures of this kind, will I succede to learn that I need to fail to succede...?
To succede is to not want more... It is to be done with the learning process in a given domain.
every little success make for a greater one...my true success will be measurable only the day that I will leave this world to succede to the next generation.
These are the most imortant for my success... FAILLURE, PERSEVERANCE, RESPECT.