What separates the successful, from the un-successful?
It’s really simple: The successful never allow themselves be overtaken by the “victim” mentality. They never make excuses. They adapt to the hand they are dealt, and play it to the best of their ability. They never give up!
Everyone has weak moments. Sometimes those weak moments turn into longer periods of time than we would like.
In the end though, the successful always come out on top, because they found a way to get through it.
The “American Dream” is fundamentally based on the stories of people that have made it through the struggles:
- The single mom that worked two jobs, while getting her degree, and raising three kids.
- The child that grew up poor, with a struggling single mom, that became a CEO.
- The man that brought his family from a different country, just to provide a better life.
- The daughter that pays no attention to the so-called, “glass ceiling”.
Those are the stories we hear about, and then think to ourselves “that person is successful”.
Success is hard to define. No one level of success should be said to be better than another.
Every successful person that I know has failed. The only reason they are today considered “successful”, is because they made the conscience decision to pick themselves up, and not succumb to the belief that they are a failure.
Winston Churchill said: “Never Never Never Give up!”
Theodore Roosevelt said: “It is not the critic who counts. Not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.
No matter what anyone says though, you are the only one that can determine whether you are a success, or a failure.