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yourself against the wrong criteria. Sometimes you just need a reminder as to what you’ve really accomplished in life. The success indicators that follow will help you do just that. 1. You’re no longer the centre of the universe. We all know “successful” people who act like they’re the center of the universe. It’s their world and the rest of us just live in it...right? That’s not success. True success requires the ability to feel empathy – to realize that other people’s feelings and dreams are just as important as ours, and we cannot succeed without them. 2. You stay positive. Hope and optimism are essential components of a happy life. If you dwell on the things that go wrong, you become bitter and resentful. When that happens, you fail – no matter what you may have achieved. Real success means always seeing the bright side and believing you have the power to make even the worst situations better. 3. You know that failure isn’t forever. You’ve learned that the only people who never fail are those who don’t try. When you fail, you don’t automatically assume that you’re a failure. Instead, you embrace each failure as an opportunity to learn something – and then you move on. If you still struggle with this at times, know that you’ll never experience true success until you learn to embrace failure. Your mistakes pave the way for your success by revealing when you’re on the wrong path. The biggest breakthroughs typically come when you’re feeling the most frustrated and the most stuck. It’s this frustration that for