Recently I was asked by a friend if a mutual acquaintence of ours was successful.

My response:  What’s your definition of success?

In this particular case, I knew what my friend was asking… Does he make a lot of money?  The answer to that question is yes.  However, I would hardly consider this person “successful”.

The person has continual marital problems due to his unwillingness to compromise, continual family problems because of his unwillingness to keep from being selfish and has very few friends because he is so unhappy to be around.

In his case, he has put money at the forefront of his personal success, but at the expense of alienating everyone around him.

Personally, I would not consider this success.  At the same time, I’m not him and my opinion doesn’t really matter.

The same holds true for you.

How do you define success?

Is it being a good mother or father?

Being wealthy?

Being a good friend?

Being great at your job?

If you can’t define what success means to you, then how will you know if and when you are successful?

Whatever it is, the way that you define success will determine how you handle the daily decisions in your life.

What I’d like for you to remember as you determine your own definition of success is that you can have more than just one version of success.

For instance, being wealthy doesn’t mean that you can’t be a good mother or father.  Wanting to be a good mother or father doesn’t mean that you can’t want to have a successful career.  These desires are not mutually exclusive.

You can have as much success in as many areas as you choose to have.  The key is defining your own success and prioritizing your life so that you keep first things first.  Success in one area should never come at the expense of success in a higher priority area.  But again, if you don’t establish you priorities and if you don’t define success, you will never know where you are going.

If you don’t already have it figured out, today would be a great day to start.  Define your priorities in life, then explain in great detail what “success” would mean to you in each of these categories.  And lastly, write it all down and review it daily.

You were put here for a purpose, you are greater than you realize and your future will be filled with unlimited opportunities when you decide to become unstoppable.

Be Unstoppable!

Mike

Mike Mason, author of Unstoppable Success, is the Founder of Unstoppable Business Consulting, The Elite Training Center and the Clinic Director of The Chiropractic Care Center.  He is considered one of the nation’s premier experts on business and motivation and lectures on success to sports and business groups.  He is reported to be the future of business consulting.