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The Meaning of Success

Most people do not find their careers fulfilling or meaningful. Today more and more people are dissatisfied with this situation. Many people consider money to be more important than obtaining a purpose in life. Everyone has a passion deep down inside. You may not be aware of exactly what it is, but it will emerge as life goes on. Once you find this passion or mission, success will fallow. It is not easy to find or create work that truly satisfies the soul. Living your life purpose leads to joy and deep satisfaction. I see life purpose as a contribution to the world that gives your life passion, fulfillment, and meaning through dedication to something larger than yourself. The Love Your Job article says something so true, “It’s unfortunate that most people don’t love their jobs, since we spend half of our waking hours at work. You need to love your job!”
AVERAGE COLLEGE GRADUATE SALARY
Throughout college a student thinks and dreams of a career. We declare our major based on what we “think” would be fun, what pays a lot of money, what we think would be interesting. In the months upon a college graduation, the student begins to think seriously about a career. Some people have jobs to start right after graduation, and some have to begin the job search. This is a time when people start defining themselves by their careers. People ask what you do, you immediately respond with a job title. This is what it means to define yourself by your job. There is an abundance amount of pressure placed on the college graduate. Everyone wants to be successful in their careers. Your peers will talk about how much everyone is making. You will begin to compare yourself to others and think you’re not making enough or your peer is not making enough. All these thoughts are normal but the real question, are you finding meaning and purpose in what you are doing? Are you living your life’s purpose? Once you find your life’s purpose the next step is connecting this purpose into you career and being committed to whatever that life purpose is. Take responsibility for managing your own career. No one else will. Avoid the trap of getting caught up in the expectations of others.
Finding your mission and life’s purpose comes easily to some, and to others, it is difficult and takes more time to find. I have b...

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...e. Study it. Live it. Work at it. Work harder at it than you have ever worked before. Immerse yourself totally in it. In that immersion you will find happiness and contentment in a life truly well lived. I will close with a few thoughts about the more traditional meaning of success and failure, and their relative unimportance. I have found that what matters most is to have a dream, to do something that you believe in and to love it passionately. Do not fear failure. Do not crave success. If you ask for financial reward for what you do, for peer approval or even for thanks from others, then you are asking to be paid for what you should be giving freely as an act of love. The true reward is not in the result, it is in the process, not in the achievement but in the achieving. With the power of love transform your dreams into action. If you do what you love, professionally and in every other way, happiness and success will fallow.

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1. Do You Still Like Your Job? By: Baskervill, Dawn M., Black Enterprise,
00064165, Feb 1993, Vol. 23, issue 7 section: career development.

2. Best Books, By: Oeltjen, Holly, Women in Business, 00437441, Sep/ Oct93, Vol. 45, Issue 5

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