Each and every day we wake up to a clean slate, a fresh new day.  Success is available to anyone who decides to define their own success.  It comes in many different flavors, different colors, styles and sizes.  What someone may decide as successful may look quite differently to another person.  For some, it may mean a six figure income.  For another, it may mean being able to conceive and have a healthy child.  I could define success as having achieved happiness in my life regardless of circumstances.  The bigger picture is being able to honestly evaluate our lives and determine if we are living to the fullest of our potential, or at least attempting to live to our fullest each day.

I remember when I was in college and had an interim year field assignment in my chosen career path.  I decided to keep a daily journal of my year and write out a daily goal.  At the end of the day or the next morning, I would record some of the highlights of the day. I had made the decision to keep it positive, yet realistic.  I wanted to see a pattern of what I was able to accomplish on the days that I stayed focused on my goal.  Some days I was more successful than on other days.  I still have those journals and I find them amazingly refreshing to read.  The year was so successful for me that I was given the chance to mentor another leader from another country.  He was sent to New Orleans, where I was living that year, and I was to simply let him ‘follow’ me and learn.  I was honored, and yet humbled at the same time.  My style may have been different than his, but the basic keys to success work for everyone, regardless of gender, culture or location.  Basically, I believed I could achieve success, I made a daily goal and took action to make it happen.  I then recorded and reviewed what I did and looked for patterns of what worked and what didn’t work.  We tend to complicate it by failing to become focused and believe that we can achieve.  Believe you are worthy of success and take action.

If you would like to read further on how to find success and how to achieve your goals, I encourage you to read my articles on HubPages where I write about different topics of interest.  Thank  you for reading, and stay focused on what you want to accomplish and success can be yours.  You can also sign up and write on HubPages which is a great place to write, publish and have the opportunity to produce passive income.  Success starts within.  Enjoy!