What is success? Is it the process of doing a task and receiving a positive result acceptable amongst the community, or is it simply achieving ones own personal goals? Success to me can mean many things. Although I am successful in school, that does not necessarily mean I will lead a successful life. Success to me is setting personal goals, and following through with them. Whether you achieve your desired result or not, you have succeeded just by trying.
Everyone’s vision of success differs. Success takes many different definitions. People have different interpretations of what success really means. For me is as simple as: living well and laughing often. The idea of living well is a very broad statement. Living well, in my opinion is getting success in personal, social and professional life. If I can achieve all of these three levels of success, I believe that I have lived well. Personal success for me is being able enjoy little things that life has to offer. For instance; understanding and appreciating diversity. To have someone to love and treasure, to meet the right person, fall in love, and get marry. To feel that I’m able to love my child and pass on wisdom to him .Feeling that someone loves me, is something that makes me completely happy and successful. Because I believe that without love, life is not thoroughly complete, thus never truly achieve success. I believe that, by being mentally and physically healthy, I have achieved personal success. When I get home to see my loving husband, my loved child, and then I’m able to sit down, relax and appreciate life, then I’m successful in my own right. Social success has a lot to do with the natural tendencies that I as human posses. For instance, I have identified good friends that I can count on as well as they can count on me. Meaning that I have good friend where I can rely on. I know that if a need help on anything, there will always be a helping hand. A part of societal success is also to learn how to treat people well, and I have been blessed to have such a great family that has showed me how to treat people since I was a little kid. I consider that I have reached professional success when I’m able to finish any goals that I have set in my mind. It doesn’t necessarily means that I need to have a masters or a doctored on my career. If my goal next year, is to graduate on, December 2015 and I’m capable of doing it just the way I set it in my mind, then I have reached professional success, even if it is only my Bachelor in Business Management (BA). In the long run, it always good to be as much knowledgeable as we can, but if my decision is just to finish my first goal, I consider it to be as success as if I keep having more goals to achieve. Over the years I’ve found myself spending large amount of hours working on papers and essays and then become frustrated because I know I want to receive the best grade possible. Not only do I want to produce a great paper/essay, but I want to produce an eye catching title. Throughout the world of writers, work is written to catch the attention of the readers and maintain their interest. A writer always receives great feedback if they can keep the reader’s attention in the reading and it has solidness to the paper and by doing so, when writing it is best to show the reader what you have learned and by doing so they can receive a clearer understanding of where they are coming from and what they are trying to state throughout the reading. Throughout the reading we have seen different styles and ways of comprehensive and single reflection assignments. Being creative and making the words come alive can become quite frustrating. Many times we can become so impatient we tend to forget about the steps that come with a well written paper; one being a rough draft and revising and being creative and making the words come alive can become quite frustrating. Some of us are what some may call over achievers; in the end, it all matters. We must be much more innovative in our writing. The ability to create a firm, concrete paper really shows a reader the writer’s strengths and weaknesses throughout the paper. When analyzing work the writer must make sure the reader gains a clear understanding and can follow from beginning to end. Reflective writing is one of the most important ways of developing one’s performance and learning for example, a student realized, while doing research, a writer must present their own arguments. By doing so, she used reflective writing enabled her to evaluate her own writing. By choosing a few questions to respond, demonstrate, and explain the most important learning of the course helps to create ideas that relates to the writer which can “choose only a few of the questions to respond to, questions that allow you to explain and demonstrate your most important learning of the course” (Allyn and Bacon 636). For example, many of my instructors in high school would explain the method of a web; meaning state your thesis in a bubble and surround the thesis with your ideas. This has helped me to improve my writing and the way readers explore what they’re reading and the way they read. The world of writers is consistently working hard to maintain the reader’s interest within the limit s of their writing. We constantly force ourselves to use different sources and methods to expand our minds and produce excellence. From experience we must choose and subject and become familiar in order to create a clear understanding to the reader. Reading and writing provides structure and a stabilized outlook during the journey and adventure of expression. If I laugh often, then I definitely have achieved success as well. When I laugh, I bring out good thoughts, good aura, and joy to the people next to me. If I don’t have a reason to laugh, it usually means that there are many worries near me. It could also be that I’m mad at something or someone. If I’m mad, many bad thoughts could cross my mind, even if is not my intention to hurt anyone. It is just that I have madness inside of me, and of course I don’t think clear so bad things could happen. I try to laugh a lot, and that is very hard to achieve today’s days, so definition of success for me is clearly when I had laughed often. For some, success is measured by social status and wealth; for others, including myself, success is determined by the amount of happiness one feels. Living well and laughing often is my closest definition of success. Wealth, happiness, and fame are all the stereotypical aspirations of the common person’s so-called “American Dream.” My American dream encompasses more of the first two aspects than anything else. Happiness is the most important; without happiness, wealth and fame are useless. Without happiness, success cannot exist; it is your own personal gauge of accomplishment. If you cannot look at yourself in the mirror and evaluate your own life a success, then why should anyone else consider you successful? Wealth can attribute to happiness. No matter what anyone says, having more material goods makes your standard of living better, which normally is a direct correlate of happiness. It helps you experience the luxurious joys in life that, otherwise, you couldn’t carry out. Fame, to me, isn’t needed but rather acquired through the life of the successful person. A legacy is more honorable than a national fame, because after death fame is a more humble characteristic. Changing others lives, after they examined your life in retrospect, makes fame an irreplaceable cog in the machine of success. Admiration and aspirations of a person can help determine how successful they will be. Role models help blaze a path of success in the minds of their protégé. If someone looks up to a person who themselves are successful, they have better odds of being successful themselves. The most important thing in life is thought to be happiness. In order to achieve success you must adjust to every situation with ease. When we use the term successful it does not mean the same as the conventional definition. The definition we are referring to is to be able to overcome hardships, nothing relating to business. Today the world is something of a giant melting pot of people. Communities everywhere are interblended with people from different places and of different backgrounds. Inside these communities there are also many different mental/physical/physiological disorders and/or many people with family problems and work problems. Needless to say today’s society is one that requires a great many different and specialized doctors and therapists to help with the variety of problems which people face. We are not going to go into every problem facing people today, however we will discuss some of the major problems that are faced by the many instead of disorders that affect the few. The first problem that affects everyone at times is stress. Many people do not know that there is good and bad kinds of stress. Good stress is referred to eustress. A very good example of this is when you get a promotion at work. You are happy that you got the better job, however with the job comes new stress, because of the new duties you have to fulfill for that position.
Everyone should have personal goals that evolve around anything that needs to be accomplished. I set goals on a daily basis. One goal that I seem to have not truly focused on has been my college education. Considering all things, I decided I needed to focus on my college education. The first thing I needed to accomplish was to enroll in an institution for higher learning. Now that my enrollment is complete, I am an official student at the University enrolled in the undergraduate program for business management. As a student at the university, I now have to set personal goals so that I will be successful in my endeavors. My personal goals are to gain personal growth and development and graduate from my undergraduate program in business management with honors. After my completion of the undergraduate program I will then move on to a master's program. To accomplish my goal of personal growth and development, I will make sure that by the end of every course I take I will have a full understanding of the subject matter.