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