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How do you define Success?

How do you define Success?

General Assembly Ponce City Market - Atlanta GA

General Assembly Ponce City Market - Atlanta GA


What’s up family? I hope everyone is doing well during this second week of May, 2017. I can't believe how fast this year is going. It was just New Years Day!! Since its the beginning of a new month, lets delve into something new. Maybe a new opportunity like a new workout routine, a new business idea. Whatever it happens to be, I challenge you this month, to try something new.

In this blog post, I want to concentrate on defining "Success".  How does society define Success. What does success look like to you and your peers. This blog is used strictly to motivate and will hopefully inspire people to follow their dream.


How do YOU define Success? Is there a right or wrong answer to this question? Is there a formula that you gets you to success? If you go through a step by step path are you guaranteed success at the end of the road? Whatever your method is in reaching success, how does it feel once you reach that finish line? Is it like winning a trophy? Are you just as excited about the next goal?

In a previous blog, I touched on the subject of success and how it is defined by society. Often times society defines success by  social class or material values." I want the money, money and the cars, the cars and clothes, I just want to be successful", a hit written by Drake and Trey Songz. Tell me, is this what success look like to you?


Is success a Class? – Often we put our peers in different brackets or a certain social class. What we don't realize is that we are actually judging ourselves on how much money we earn or what kind of job we have.  Sometimes as human beings, and not even on purpose, we meet people and the first thing we often ask is what do you do? A lot of times, we don't really care about what they actually do but we want to judge, label, and put them in certain class. Usually what we are doing is seeing how we measure up to them.  As people, we often make judgement in our head. We say "oh they're a lawyer they probably drive a nice luxury car or live in a nice house. We look at them as being successful. 

Is success Money? –  Money is the way to purchase, to trade, it's a form of resource, but is it success? Are you chasing the money or are you chasing a dream? Going through life, I think we get that mixed up sometimes. Today there are so many get rich schemes and microwave success stories (hot for the moment like a fad) that we can get caught up in “chasing the bag”.  I'm sure you've heard the saying,  more money more problems.

What does Success looks like to me? – I feel like success is whatever you make it. Ben Caschona, author of "My Start Up" put it in a simple sentence “Success is happiness”. Author Brett Farmiloe defined it by stating “Success is being able to say, “I love what I do.”

In my opinion, there is no right or wrong answer as to how you define your success. Happiness, is definitely a characteristic of success. You may look at someone's situation and they might not have the best paying job but they go home to a loving family that makes them happy. Some cases there are CEO’s that have a ton of money in the bank, they drive nice cars but are miserable inside. They can’t even look at themselves in the mirror at night, is that success?


However YOU define success just make sure you’re going after it. Success is the journey not the destination, so make sure that you embrace every step. And continue to Stay Solid.



- Church