What is success?
Most people have a tendency to wrap the definition of success around their finances. Unfortunately, if they do not have an abundance financially, they may consider themselves “unsuccessful”.
But does success have to do totally with how much money you have in your bank account?
The Collins Gage Canadian Dictionary defines success as:
1. a favourable result,
2. the gaining of wealth, position, etc.,
3. a person or thing that succeeds,
4. result, fortune
You see, success is not defined solely as wealth!
So, now that you know success, in one definition is “a favourable result”, go back through your life to times when your outcomes brought the results you wanted. Start counting. There are certainly many times coming to mind, right? Do you have a roof over your head? Meals to eat? Clothes to wear? Good friends? Some great family? These are all favourable results.
See, we are so much more successful then we are willing to give ourselves credit for. Oftentimes, even with all our great abilities, we have a tendency to downplay our own successes. For whatever reason, we tend to...