Success to me is doing one or more things I had on my list. My goals are always tiny steps toward reaching an even greater goal. I want to celebrate success daily, so I create small successes so I have reason to celebrate.
I am writing an Ebook, so if I write one page or one chapter, I have made the day a success. When that book is complete, it will be a major success, but each page and chapter along the way is a success.
When my husband was sick, laying in his bed trying to get over Guilllan Barre', success was helping him get past the pain for one more day. Today, when I see him walk, where before I had to lift him from his bed into his wheelchair, I know each of those "days" were a success.
Never let problems get you down, look upon it as an opportunity to conquer the problem and create success. When Tom was sick, we lost our Tree Service and our Crane Service. Closing down businesses that took 30 years to build could have been looked at as a failure. But in looking closer, I see success.
At 65 years old, Tom now has the opportunity to retire. Before he got sick, there seemed no way we could walk away from the businesses without taking major losses. But someone was looking out for us. We closed the businesses, sold the equipment and stepped closer to his lifelong dream. Without a devastating illness to "force" him to give it up, we would have been trapped until the day he died.
I find little successes in writing one page for my website, or reaching a new high number of visitors. Don't ever tell me I've failed, I am successful every day!
