Jonny Gibaud from The Life Thing is releasing today The Success Ebook.
He compiled 30 young and promising bloggers’ definition of success and their way to achieve it, and created a very inspiring and quick to read ebook that will make you work hard to reach your success, whatever it means to you.
Here are my expanded responses:
What is success?
Success is living in your own terms, without regrets and regardless of societal achievements.
You can’t win such an ambiguous game without coming up with your own set of rules. Those rules will be your guide if you take the time and put the work to be serious about them.
Regrets of what you did and went wrong are life lessons. Regrets of what you didn’t do are poisonous nostalgia. When in doubt, always say yes. To keep moving, to keep acting, to keep risking is the only way to create an unbreakable and successful mindset.
Society will try to impose your goals. In most people’s case, it succeeds. You should ignore it consciously. Tell to yourself and others that your life belongs to you and not to history and its customs.
How do you achieve it?
You get there after questioning and realizing what matters to you, and by taking the required steps to make it real.
People’s values are either found by themselves, or supplied by the world. Avoid the latter. Take your time to question everything and create your own collage of relevancy. And believe me, it takes time. That’s why most people only have society’s printed copy.
Thinking hard is only half of the solution. Working hard comes next. Like Dr. Kelso once said: “Nothing in this world that’s worth having comes easy.” Now go out there and start doing the work.
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I find great value and motivation in other people’s thoughts, ideas, and words. But I also believe that motivation shouldn’t come from the fear of other people’s opinions about you: that just fuels the upkeep of a false persona. At least that’s what it did to me until I made some changes worth making.
But sometimes I find difficulty in managing societal ideas and individual ideas. The line between the two is blurry. “The world” will never have the answers I want, but what about all of those awesome people in “the world”? I can’t help but care enough about them to consider their own personal revolutions and thoughts.
These are the times I could really use somebody to sit with for a while. But even then I’m pretty sure the line wouldn’t get much clearer.
Motivation does not need to be beautiful. Use whatever you want. It just needs to motivate you. Revenge? Sure. Make it work for you.
Right on! I love your perspective, especially about creating our own life and avoiding the standard blueprint forced upon us by society in general…
I’m glad to have come across your site through this excellent eBook of Jonny’s!
Thanks Earl, so good to have you here!
It’s been my experience that those who are not successful miss the part about working hard. Success rarely is dropped in your lap.
So many people equate being rich with being successful. I love your statement – “Success is living in your own terms, without regrets and regardless of societal achievements.” I believe this type of success is what bring true happiness and satisfaction.
Being rich may be dropped in your lap, and it can be one of the worst things that can happen to you.
So true. All you have to do is look at the history of those who have won the lottery.
They killed themselves?
Great clip, Carlos! Puts your point into perspective.
“When in doubt, always say yes. To keep moving, to keep acting, to keep risking is the only way to create an unbreakable and successful mindset.”
Words to live by. Be a Yes Man! and Woman!
That video is awesome.
Hi Carlos, Thanks for being involved in the project man.
It was my pleasure man.
This part of your article really got me thinking: “To keep moving, to keep acting, to keep risking is the only way to create an unbreakable and successful mindset.” Being a fairly analytical person, in the past I would tend to over think life choices. This is a good strategy from a risk aversion standpoint – however many opportunities may have been missed. After starting a business I discovered that action, any action, is better than none at all. Action prompts momentum – while inaction stalls you business and life.
You got it John