Defining Personal Success: A Pathway Perspective

What is success? Success could be anything you have achieved or have done in your life. Some people measure success how much money they make. Others measure success how much they accomplished. My path of success is the most common and simplest, that gives a grasp on how to succeed.

First establish a short term and long term goals to reach. Goals help me pave the path. Although everyone can see their roads, but not see the path clearly. By utilizing a short term goal, makes it easier to succeed, like the steps of a ladder and get to complete overall long term goals, for example, my short term goal is to complete my require classes to get to my major. My long term goal will be graduating with my associates degree or a fourth year degree.

Each short term goal a person accomplish will get to being more successful and feel a bit much happier.

In addition, happiness does drive you to reach your goals and gives you a sense of feeling successful, for instance, when I completed one of my classes and got good grades it kept me going. I know I'm learning and it gets me excited in my own way. Happiness help you pursue what you out of life. Another example is your first paycheck it make you happy and make you want to work hard. First vehicle make you happy and you want keep it nice and clean. You have to find what makes you happy and why not go for it.

Another way can help you succeed is to get a mentor.

A mentor would have experience and guides you in how to be successful. My family, counselors, and professors are my mentors. Also I see as inspiring mentors as Albert Einstein for the studying and thinking, Steve Jobs for being creative and ambitious, Maya Angelou for wise words and great poems and the list goes on.

Finally, a sense of well being, it is where everyone wants to get to and be in. It is a good place to be in and all of the worrying and stressing at work or have enough for the bills will diminish. I have a long road to get to that place. I would have to graduate first, then feeling happy and in powered find the company who would will hire me. Reaching a level career professionalism and get promoted. This is only half of my well being. The other half is a someone in my life and friends. A sense of well being for me will be striving for perfect balance.

All in all, the definition of success is different for everyone but have similar paths. I think without any method somehow you have to figure it out and that will take you longer and not be doing what you wanted to do in the first place. Each person has to plan goals. Find what happiness means to you. A mentor will be helpful guiding you in your path and achieve a sense of well being. I learn this method in

college.