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How You Define Success Defines You

How You Define Success Defines You

Most people associate success with money, power, or material gains. I would argue that its more about the internal gratification rather than the externals, its about small or big progressions that u urself set to achieve and feel fulfilled while on the journey to acheive them.

When u are content then u get to enjoy the journey with the ups and downs, with the riches and burdens, and most importantly u get to share these moments with the ppl u meet along the way. In my opinion this sense of belonging is the real success that can never be taken away from u regardless of where u end up.

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External Success

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Then comes the external success, the one that has to do with how others percieve us. The end goal is to relay a certain image, and is always translated into power as a measure of success. Most humans are greedy when it comes to power, u noticed, and power can be broken down into one or several ga...

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Lust For Power

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Power does not corrupt. Lust in a position of power, corrupts power. Feeding ones ego through lust for power is a shortcut to obtaining this man-defined success, also manipulating others perception is another shortcut. This conflicts with the prerequisites of internal success, cuz it relies entir...

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nabilrostom

I like to put myself in situations where i make interesting mistakes. Artist by nature. Engineer by study. Designer by profession. Martial Artist by Interest. Mage by inheritance, and i live by two seas and a river.

Lust in a position of power, corrupts power. A fine line while in pursuit of success.

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Feeling Good About Who You Are

Feeling Good About Who You Are

  1. Know what measuring stick you’re using to determine your value
  2. Measure your self-worth based on the factors you can control (like your values, spirit of showing up in failure, hardships you endured till now etc.)– not the external events in your life(like people, mo...

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