What is SUCCESS?

Everyone desires success in one form or another. Some just daydream about it, while others do something to achieve it.

The definition of success is a desired outcome of something that was completed. A prosperous or advantageous outcome of something you intend. It also means a favorable course of anything you have attempted or having reached the high degree with favorable results. Success is really a state of mind. You may enjoy it in the small daily events of life, and you can find it in great achievements.

In reality, there are many variations or levels of success. It means different things to different people. Some look at it as having an accumulation of money and worldly possessions, while others view success as just living. For others, it means being famous or having a loving relationship at home. Or it may mean doing the work with love on a schedule that meets your own needs. In summary, some just desire a carefree life, health, live and happiness, and to have a good job with a good pay to enable them to live comfortably.

"Success is not a journey

Its a destination."

3 Thing to Remember:

1. Success is not only something spectacular. It manifests also in the small things of daily life.


2. Success doesn't depend on wishing or on luck. It requires two things- a dream and elbow grease. If you don't have both, success will always stay just outside your grasp.
   
3. There is no one key to success because there are many keys to success.

"If you want to be successful,
have a passion for winning."

God said: “Trial is not a reason to give up
But a challenge to improve ourselves.
Pain is not an excuse to back out
But an inspiration to move on.”

If we failed to do something worthily or to success on what we do we should not give up easily or become afraid to try again. Because nobody is perfect and this trial doesn’t give us the opportunity to give up or lose our hope but it gives us the opportunity to successfully improve ourselves and to correct our mistakes.
To really understand that proverb here are some examples of famous people who successfully achieved their goals in life. We hope that after you read this you will be inspired and continue to have faith in yourself and do successfully whatever your goal is.

Abraham Lincoln

16th President of United States
Grew up with miserable life
thrown out of his own house
His fiancé died before their wedding.
Lose his job and dreamed to be a lawyer but he failed to enter a law school.
Had a nervous breakdown and had been bedridden within 6 months.
Failed to make their business successful twice and lent his 17 years in life to pay up the amount of money he borrowed.
Run as a candidate for congressman and lose 8 times.
At the year 1860 he won as the president of the United States.

Thomas Alva Edison

One of the most productive inventor( made 1,903+ inventions)
His teachers believed that he was the most stupid student in class.
He worked as a newsboy to be able to buy chemicals and other devices for his experiments.
His experiments resulted to a flame that burned his baggage car laboratory and
He encountered an accident that made him permanently deaf.
He got a serious illness but he continue to discover and make experiments
Discovered incandescent electric light bulb, phonograph, motion picture projector, automatic and multiplex telegraph, carbon telephone transmitter and alkaline storage battery.

Albert Einstein
He learned to speak at the age of 4
He learned to read at the age of 7
He was not accepted at Zurich Polytechnic School
His teachers believed that he was a slow-learner, lack of consideration to others.He became a physicist and became popular because of his Theory of Relativity

Helen Keller
Before she entered the age of 2 she had a serious disease that made her permanently blind and deaf.
Only at the age of 10, she learned how to read and write
She learned how to speak French, German and English
Even though she had an illness, she graduated as a cum laude.
She became a lecturer and a writer for those people who are blind.
She gained so much admiration, respect and an honor from international organizations.
She also helped to build the Massachusetts for the Blind.
She wrote books that show her interest in the beauty of life such as The Story of My Life, Optimism, Out of the Dark, and Let Us Have Faith.

Six Ways to Attain Success

Using money in the right way
Money is not only a cruel thing but it is also a deceptive God that may teach you do things that can hurt or disrespect someone. In other words, wealth promises a pleasing life but at the end, it always fails.

Be an open hand
“A spirit of an open hand is being watered by wealth and success.”
Based on the saying, the one who truly gives w/o compensation and is not waiting for a feedback is being loved and cared by God.

Forgive those who have sins
Nowadays, only a few are still forgiving other people that have done something wrong and hurt our feeling. We always want to do the same thing to them rather than to show mercy. As a result, another mistake is made!

Obey the laws of God
The one who follows the laws of God will harvest a successful and ideal life. Also, respect and calmness will be achieved.

Have a lasting love for everyone
The kind of love that is being emphasized is not the romantic nor devilish kind of love—it is the meaningful and never lasting affection that begins with God.

Give thought to spiritual needs
We all agree that God wants more than a temporary life on earth for 70-80 years, but for his creatures to live and succeed forever! So it is the time for all to live with him in peace and know better about the person and the beauty and wealth of this world.