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What is Success?
As entrepreneurs, “success” can be a slippery term for us. Some days (or years) you are up, some you are down. The roller-coast ride of business ownership makes it hard to really know if you are being –or have been--successful or not.Like “beauty”, the definition depends on the perspective of the observer. For example, is success the achievement of the goal, or is it the “process of achievementIs the person who says: "I'm doing exactly what I love to do," more or less successful (even if he/she achieves little) than the person who finds a cure for lung cancer, but whose goal was to find the cure for all cancers? In other words, is success defined more by the process and less by the achievement? If you are in a process that you enjoy, are you therefore, successful? And what about other factors that affect success, such as cost, and spiritual components? Is the achievement you gain a “success” if the cost was working 16 hour days, alienating your kids, ruining your health and destroying your marriage. Should success be measured as much by personal balance, as by profits? Then, of course, there is the spiritual component. Should success be measured in worldly terms, or on a more spiritual level? In the book of Matthew, for example, Jesus says "What does it profit a man if he gains the entire world and losses his soul?" Matthew 16:26 (New International Version)These and other insights on the subject of success are offered by Dave Kahle, a sales coach. Visit him at www.davekahle.com. What he says will hit home with hard-charging entrepreneurs who may have met their sales and profit goals, but then finds themselves asking: “Is this all there is?” What I liked best was Dave’s working definition of success: “Success is the continuous attainment of an ever–evolving series of goals. “After all, life’s about enjoying the journey-- not just meeting the goal. So be sure and make your goals multi-faceted and ever-evolving. It is a perfect cure for growing stagnant. I, for one, want to be able to say, “Wow! What a wonderful ride,” at the end of the line, rather than “Is that all there is?” What about you? Please add your views about success to this blog.About the Blogger: Charlotte Taylor started her business CTA Management Group, Inc., which trades as Venture Concepts, ® in 1981. She was a pioneer in entrepreneurial training and created a business planning program (New Enterprise Training for Profits (NET/PRO)® ) that helped thousands of people start businesses in the USA, Canada, and Russia. A business consultant and coach to CEO’s, she specializes in helping emerging enterprise achieve successful growth
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