HOW DO YOU MEASURE SUCCESS?

Power, money, fortune, wealth; what does success really mean? Money is always in the middle of the discussion if success is measured in dollars, of course for me this can be an important element in this society, but if you do not have vision your money could be a double edged knife. Now, you can obtain a fortune in three different ways, the first one is if you inherit money from your family, the second one is if you won the lottery, this could be the most difficult of all these, and the third way to get a fortune is earning it on your own.

Now why have I mentioned these options?, Because for me the effort you realize to obtain or achieve your goals is the most important factor that gives you success and this can demonstrate that money is not the only form to be successful but the experience that you win in the way to obtain your objectives.

Now we will explain what can happen when a person without vision receives a considerable amount of money. What this kind of people do when they have this money? In many occasions the first thing they think on is to get a luxurious car and an apartment of course, followed by this we can find taxes of the government and the thousands of expenses they do in expensive products and parties and… All they do is spending all in useless things. Now when you fight against all kind of obstacles, maybe you are in bankrupt but you continue believing in your project of life, your family tells you that you are in a wrong way, you always have to define your steps and don’t influenced by the bad comments of the people that don’t have vision at all.

People always relate success just with famous people in the world like Bill Gates, Messi, Pelé and Rihanna, and they are successful people because they used their abilities to overcome their obstacles but they are not the only people that are successful; many people in our communities are successful too. This is a really difficult issue to talk about, because how can you measure success? We need a lot of people to live, if you want to be wealthy you may need the public transport, are bus drivers successful people? How can you say that they aren’t? They are responsible of thousand of people per day, and they have an incredible domain of the money, the people that clean our neighborhoods, are they successful? For me they are heroes of the society, many people discriminate them but the work that they do is admirable, we need them, and for me they are successful, they do an excellent work and help our country move.

What other issue is linked with success? Charity could be one of them, because it represents the gratefulness that successful people have with society. Of course if you listen charity, the first thing you attach it is people donating millions of dollars to kids or people building houses to people that don’t have a home; but when people without money want to donate something to society, how can they do that?

Use their abilities to return anything at our society. Many people have vision, but they have no money, now you can use your abilities to focus people that have no vision and have money, or many people use art to give smiles to many children that are in the orphanages; for me they are successful, they have no money but they enjoy what they do and want to be an inspiration to many people.

With everything I said, I conclude that the most important thing to be successful is passion for what you do, money sometimes will come if you do a good job. You need to be focused in what you want, never give up your goals and try to obtain experience from what you do, because it will give you different solutions and will help you to resolve problems that successful people have.