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Post by X factor on Nov 22, 2013 17:13:07 GMT -5
Success is whatever you want it to be...
But for the sake of this post...Success can be defined as a series of decisions you make, operations that go right, that allow you to live a more fulfilled tomorrow.
Success can be either economic, social or relationship in nature.
Or all 3 combined...and then some...
Success can also be over coming an addiction one has...graduating from a institute, or loosing weight.
No two people have the same vision of what success is...and as such never let someone come in and rob you of your moment of success, by re interpiting it through their lense.
If it makes you happy...that's what matters...
As far as business goes, it's all relative to where ya come from, and where ya want to go.
Different examples of success...
1. Bob has one hot dog stand...and through profits, is able to get two hot dog stands...walla...success!
2. Jim invest $100,000 in a unsure stock...next day stock value doubles, Jim sells...make profit for his client and earns great commission...walla...success!
3. Mary wants to finish New York Marathon...she never has before...this year, she finishes it do to healthier diet...walla...success!
Success is really simply improving ones own level of existence...either financially, spiritually, socially, physically, or educationally.
One thing for sure..success will change you...will give you confidence, which in turns gives you drive and energy.
But as we will discuss in up coming posts...not everyone relates to your success in the same manner...
This is nothing new...any successful person knows this already...
Some people have no need for you if you're actually successful...and actually secretly wish you would fail...
Strangers don't wish you to fail...it's always people you know..family, friends, social media relationships...
But you know what success is to you...whether that be a successful marriage, or graduating college or starting your own business...
Achieve it...be happy, and don't let others sower the occasion for ya...
Much more to follow...
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Post by X factor on Nov 23, 2013 10:26:58 GMT -5
Whatever success is to you...you will find out what roles people play in your life when you get ready to achieve that success...
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Post by X factor on Nov 23, 2013 10:37:35 GMT -5
And when you're about to achieve that success...whatever it may be to you...you've got to kind of enter a chamber, all alone...a place where you go in your head, mind, to clear out all rubbage, self-doubt, other peoples don't, other peoples noise ect. Like a boxer before a fight...the boxer is left alone in the locker room to just think....meditate...and relax...and then minutes later, it's on. And there are others who will not happy with your success, simply because it doesn't serve them, doesn't serve their needs. As selfish as that sounds, that's how some folks are...if your success doesn't serve their needs, than they're no longer interested in you, and or never really were. Shed it, all the gunk, let it go, and move on...forward we go, ya'h ya'h...  |
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Post by X factor on Nov 23, 2013 11:16:07 GMT -5
Also...expect for those closest to you to 'marginalize' your success...while always pointing towards other peoples success as being 'legit' or worthy of note...
It's part of that whole celebrity worship mentality...only someone distant, who you don't know, can be successful...but your next door neighbor cannot...simply cause you know them...
Or your husband cannot or wife cannot or son or daughter or friend or classmate..just fill in the blank with which ever applies to your situation.
We'll praise and admire those on a magazine cover, but when those same traits are in those closest to us, sadly, we never notice, or don't want to...
A pride and ego thing I guess...
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Post by X factor on Nov 23, 2013 13:09:57 GMT -5
Success is a journey...a desire, a goal...but it's not ever certain.
And the steps you have to take to start that journey can be very frightening, and fiscally risky.
In the realm of 'business success'...there's lots of risks, and little garunteed out comes.
Your simply hoping more things go right, than wrong.
Moments others will never know, feel, that you go through...the doubt...the uncertainty, the fear.
It can be gut wrenching at times, but it's also what builds fortitude in you...
You rarely go through such times without growing tremendously as an induvisual, or team.
You emerge a bit tougher, and with a better understanding of the world around you.
Life can be scary, cause if you fail, there's really no net to catch you.
The super wealthy don't need a net...their own money is their net...they are their own banks.
Bill Gates don't need a bank...he is a bank.
But there are 10,000's of people like Gates scattered throughout the world.
They never have to risk their own assets, all they do is risk investors capitol, or the Banks capitol...but never their own.
But to me...success can't be measured against what Bill Gates has achieved....but has to be forged by what an induvisual wants.
For some, simply running 1 successful hot dog stand may be all the success they ever want or need...
To work for their own hot dog stand, than to work at Burger King.
What about music artists?
Some artist don't feel successful until they top the billboards, other artist just want to play in clubs.
Also...success just may be one goal in a long road ahead...one step.
Example...you want to become a Lawyer...but first must be accepted into a University...you get accepted...success!!
But....but...that's just one step towards a larger goal...none the less, before the larger goal can be achieved you have to take smaller successful steps...
Much more to follow...
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Post by X factor on Dec 2, 2013 0:13:19 GMT -5
You often here the term 'Follow your dreams' as it pertains to a career or starting own business.
If, for the sake of that 'Follow your dreams' sentiment, let's apply it just to business and why some, many hesitate.
People hesitate to 'follow their dreams' when it comes to entrepreneurship cause dreams don't pay bills.
And that's why people hesitate.
It's really all about security, financial security. There is no worse feeling than going broke, expecially if alone and no one to cover your back...the world becomes a very cold place when that occurs, and even people you thought were close to you, will drift away, if they sense you're in need...expecially fiscal need.
Money is the last thing most ever feel like being generous with.
Following your dreams can be scary, expecially if there's no garuntee that your dreams will generate enough money to pay your basic bills.
Most who tout that 'follow your dreams' sentiment...
1. Never followed there's.
2. Have already 'made it'.
But rarely do people who are actually going 'through it' tout 'Just follow your dreams'...
Like being in labor or something...while you're in labor, you don't tell others around you to 'have a baby'...instead it's not till you get home, have recovered for a few weeks, have a sense things are going to be ok, does the 'Oh having a baby was great' sentiment come out.
Following your dreams when it comes to entrepreneurship can indeed be a very scary proposition.
You can suffer loss...great loss, if not careful or even a bit lucky.
Those who stay with something certain and stable aren't wrong either.
Most realize that by working an average job, no matter how much you save...won't become a billionare or even multimillionare....
No one can generate that kind of revenue through their own labor.
Do the math...
Only people who receive exorborent salaries achieve that anymore...like athletes, or securities investors who earn $50,000-$1million or more in commissions...actors, maybe 10% of record artist, high paid attornies ect.
But none of them earn their money hourly...there's not enough living years on this earth to earn multi millions on a hourly wage.
Cause even if you earn a million, you spend more than half of it as you go along.
So I think what most people desire now is simply freedom of schedual...that's success to many.
Even if one only earns $30,000 a year...it's the fact they have freedom of schedual that equates into success.
Verses working oddball shifts where someone else plans your schedual for you...
Anyways...goodnight..
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Post by X factor on Dec 6, 2013 14:09:00 GMT -5
Lets face it...most people aren't interested in you until you succeed... Most people aren't interested in your 'in between moments' or the 'in between process'... What most people want to hear, have been conditioned towards is this...  They want you to appear on some morning talk show...and tell your success story in like 3-5 easy steps...usually goes something like this... Begin: 'Oh nice to be here with you... Host: 'So how did you make it?' You: (big smile)'Well it wasn't easy...I left Kansas City back in 1994 with only 5 cents in my pocket...headed to New York...when I arrived, met Producer of 'Feet TV' on elevator...and they gave me a spot on their TV show as extra...next thing you know I got cast in 'Batman'...and then won the state lottery...and now I'm a multi-millionare and on your show...but it wasn't easy' That's all people really want to hear...they don't want to hear all the details, lonely nights, doubtful days, let downs, turn downs, what you had to do to get by for months (while on twitter or Facebook ect)... They don't want to hear about how your relationships were effected, how you got used, how you had to lie or bluff a few times...borrow money ect...the TV pop culture doesn't want to hear that...all they want to hear is that you left Kansas City with 5 cents in your pocket, flew to New York, and now your a pop culture icon... No one wants to really hear your story as it's developing...they just want the beginning and ending...that's it. Followed by a Toyota commercial... But those who do take those chances, risks, know what they had to go through to achieve desired outcome...even if pop culture audience and media doesn't want to hear it... |
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Post by X factor on Dec 16, 2013 19:09:45 GMT -5
Success is not easy... I've been around successful people...and they work hard, and are very driven, and often times never even enjoy the fact that they're successful...sometimes they can't see it...cause their visions are so big. So they may be multi millionares, but to them, they're still broke, trying to make it. Self made successful people are incredible to be around...their energy...and when successful people like you, value you, respect you, you have a better chance at being successful yourself. Cause once a successful person likes you, it's hard for them to let you fail, cause they start seeing you as a part of themselves...if that makes sense. Successful people don't make excuses...they just make things happen. They learn, they adapt, they grow...if there's a wall, they figure out a way around it.  Successful people put off good energy...they are like Michael Jordan's, but to their particular discipline...be it business, politics, medicine or scholarly efforts. And never wine around a successful person, cause they won't really hear you. Once you get in the good graces of a successful person, they will not let you fail, instead they will take you with them. Where as people who embrace failure, they will take you with them also. Success is contagious, so be sure to align yourself with the right crowd... |
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Post by X factor on Aug 22, 2020 6:23:33 GMT -5
What is success?
To me, 'Health' is success, and the older you get the more you begin to realize that.
Sure, if income poor, there may be a lot of things you can't buy, but if healthy, does it really matter?
Health, or being healthy, to me is success, regardless of income.
So take care of your health at all costs, mental, physical and spiritual health.
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Post by X factor on Aug 22, 2020 6:32:25 GMT -5
I can remember when younger, and always hearing stories about the WWII generation, and hearing about how back then, 'Dads' or Fathers were always croaking dead of heart attacks by age 38, if that.
Can remember hearing stories about adult remembering how their Father died when they were young, I mean it just seems back then, a lot of Fathers died while young of health issues, I'm talking your ordinary factory or coal mine working Dad...why?
Medical people today say it was do to poor eating habits and stress.
Men live a lot longer today, at least those who eat better and don't have a stressful job.
You have to know when enough is enough, as you age, and have to always put your health first.
And yes, mental health is health, cause if hate your job, stressed out all the time at work, that carries over into your body.
I'd avoid jobs that require you to wake up before 5 am, and or jobs that require you to work 6 days a week, and occasional weekends.
What are you gaining from that?, what is such a job really giving you?
Why do you need such a job?
First responder type jobs, of course are the exception, or like being a pilot ect.
If people demanded more from employers, then employers would change.
Covid, sadly it took Covid, to finally force change in how a lot of companies ran things.
Many companies now allow employees to work at home, instead of wasting 2 hours a day commuting back and forth.
Jobs that still think 'you need them', I guess they've never met 'me' before.
Cause I don't need nothing but my health.
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Post by X factor on Jan 16, 2021 17:09:08 GMT -5
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