Costs of Success

Success is relative, and universal all at once.  What I view as success others may not, on the other hand many people have said they thought I was successful when I didn’t see it.  I think the key to a happy and fulfilling life is to have goals and to strive for success.  Big successes and small successes everyone wants to be successful.  When you set a goal and reach it, you are successful, but those goals can vary in difficulty level.  There is no doubt the harder the goal is the more successful you feel.  What a dynamic to add, so the student that is working towards a degree who has had nothing and no help might feel a bigger sense of success than the person who didn’t have to work through the degree might feel less of a sense of accomplishment or success. 

There is one thing that everyone who is successful has done, they have worked hard at something, the harder they work the more successful they become.  I wonder, however, what are the characteristics of people that are successful on a grand scale, the fashion designer who is known around the world, the business mogul making millions, the DJ’s and musicians that make it big, the actors and actresses that are in big and numerous movies, what do they do that are different. 

Of course hard work, of course dedication, of course self-discipline, of course  innovation, of course we know the more obvious things needed for success but what about the emotional, what about the mindset.  Do you need to have the mindset that no one and nothing else matters, do you need to be self-centered and selfish.  Can you be successful on a grand scale and be nice, or must you harden yourself and your skin, and move through without a care for how others think or feel?  Then if you must be harder, tougher or thicker skinned, is it worth the potential costs.  These are the questions I  am considering this evening.  

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