How Do You Define Success?
Soul Pancake – one of my all time favorite websites – has launched a new video series, this one on success: what we mean by it, where we see it, how we define it. This last question – how do you define success? – is the topic of the first video they’ve posted. It’s all of 2 and a half minutes and beyond being quite fun – as so many Soul Pancake endeavors are (think “Kid President”!) – it’s a great question for each of us to ask ourselves. Because our definition of success – whether we’ve articulated it consciously or not – shapes decisions about how we spend our time, who we spend our time with, what we’re willing to save for, strive for, sacrifice for, and more. If we make our unconscious definitions of success conscious, then we can examine them, perhaps call them into question, or live more fully into them. So how do you define success? Take a look at what these folks have to say and then give it some thought yourself.
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I define success as having found answer to the age-old theological question, “Who am I and what am I to do?” Within this answer lies one’s identity and vocation as well as meaning and purpose for existence this side of eternal life.
I define success as doing God’s will.
The other day my 5 year old grandson asked me why I retired. I told him I wanted to spend more time with him and his sister and his two cousins, my other two grandaughters in Indiana. He replied that he thought I also wanted to spend more time at church to learn more about God. For me that’s success!