Success.

Success, this magic word no one can define precisely but everyone seems to aim at, sometimes even at the cost of others.

So what is success? What is a successful life?

Probably no one can tell you. And no one should tell you. Because it is you and only you who makes your personell definition of success. And your definition might change and unfold over time, with every challenge you are confronted with and every growth step you have just taken in becoming a better version of yourself.

What is much easier to define are the qualities that in the long run lead to success: a positive mindset (the glass is half full not half empty); a ‚quit talking and start doing’ attitude; seize opportunities rather than being afraid of possible failures; leave your comfort zone; take some risk; be utmost curious, ask more than you talk; never stop learning; accept the challenge of different ideas and consider it as an enrichment to your own thoughts; care for others; take responsibility for the success of others; help others to grow.

We also know what in the long run will not lead to sustainable success: being selfish; ‚I, I, I, me, me, me‘ thinking, talking and acting; ego (your worst enemy); blaming others; an ‚I am so insignificant, I can not change anything‘ believe.

Viktor Frankl, the famous Austrian psychologist brought it to the point when he concluded: „Don‘t aim at success. The more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one's surrender to a person other than oneself. Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it. I want you to listen to what your conscience commands you to do and go on to carry it out to the best of your knowledge. Then you will live to see that in the long-run—in the long-run, I say!—success will follow you precisely because you had forgotten to think about it”.

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