Why I Believe Success is Progressive not Culminating.

We all want to achieve things in life, but is it healthy to look at success as ultimate or culminating, or is there another way we can look at success which can prove to be more humane? I believe there is. If we look at success as self realizing or the actualization of our entire human beings, we might be missing out on the little and bigger successes that can give ourselves a real sense of accomplishment and happiness! I believe that it is these kind of achievements that we work for everyday, that actually gives us a real sense of accomplishment and that is way more forgiving than if we look at success as the realization of our entire personalities and souls!

What drives us is very important, because we will only feel successful if we are pursuing the things in life that we actually want! When we make goals we should keep in mind the real possibilities of achieving those goals because I personally believe that it is in reaching those goals that we can say I succeed in that thing. It takes humility to keep pursuing something, even when it feels out of reach and the good thing about looking at success as progressive, is that we can adapt to situations when it looks like a goal is becoming impossibly out of reach.

We don’t need to define ourselves by what we have and have not achieved, because when we meet even a small goal, it should give us a sense of pride knowing that our success is not defined for us ultimately. To quote the Bible, “I have not yet arrived” (Philippians 3:12-14) should leave a lot more room for us to really succeed in the things we set out to do! Without being purely motivational, we can’t really accomplish anything in life without feeling that we succeeded in something, so by looking at our successes in a progressive way, we can feel pride in our past accomplishments, and look forward to the things that we want to achieve in the future! This is Mike.

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