Goals, Dreams, Ideas.....Success

"The tragedy of life does not lie in not reaching your goals, the tragedy lies in not having any goals to reach. It isn’t a calamity to die with dream unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream.

It is not a disaster to be unable to capture your ideals, but it is a disaster to have no ideals to capture. It is not a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach."

~ Dr. Benjamin Mays ~

What Is Success?

You Cannot Achieve What You Have Not Defined......

The problem for most people who want to be successful is not that they can't achieve success. The main obstacle for them is they misunderstand success. Maltbie D. Babcock said, "One of the most common mistakes and one of the costliest is thinking that success is due to some genius, some magic, something or other which we do not possess."

What is success? What does it look like? Most people have avague picture of what it means to be a successful person that looks something like this:

• The wealth of Bill Gates
• The physique of Arnold Schwarzenegger (or Marilyn Monroe)
• The intelligence of Albert Einstein,
• The athletic ability of Michael Jordan
• The business prowess of Donald Trump
• The social grace and poise of Jackie Kennedy

It sounds absurd, but it's closer to the truth that we would like to admit. many of us picture success as looking like one other than who we are-and we especially can't be six other people! And more important than that, you shouldn't want to be. If you tried to become just like one of these other people, you wouldn't be successful. You would be a bad imitation of them, and you would eliminate the possibility of becoming the person you were meant to be.