Success : Its About Building a Better Us

Success and happiness are very much related to one another but not necessary a pre-requisite of each other. Success although every living soul yearns, prays and asks for it could not guarantee happiness. We have heard or read stories about how successful people lived in frustration, seclusion, depression and loneliness. Success if not properly handled could drive someone to total destruction. Success without proper education and discipline could lead to insanity. However, in order for us to achieve happiness we need to have a sense of success. Therefore it is the aim of this book to explore and develop the diagnostic approach to understand the basic philosophy of success and happiness and understand the methods in getting there.

Success is not strange to anyone’s vocabulary. Success maybe commonly defined as “the ability to achieve what we want and set out to do”. But how someone perceives and interprets success varies. Some may measure success by the materials they own such as the cars that they drive, the house that they live in and the real estates that they own. Some may measure success by the success of their children. Some may measure success by the amount of money they have in their bank accounts. Measuring success through merely worldly possessions is inevitable but a lot of times quite dangerous, because there is no end to it. You will continue to work until you drop.
Success is about satisfying your aspirations. Success is about reaching for the stars and knowing for a fact that the process of reaching for the stars and the journey of building your dreams has made you the best that you can be. More importantly, success is when you know when to stop and saying to your self “I have made it!!!” Contrary, success is not about being better than the person next door. Success is about building a better us.

Success is often times taken lightly and sometimes being ridiculed. Although success is an interesting subject to discuss which could garner a lot of interest when taken on the academic forum but we naturally shy away from discussing success in its true sense because success has its pre-requisites and there is always a price to pay for success.

Note : This article was extracted from my book "Success, Happiness and Performance : They are Within Our Control" published in 2007 by Pekan Ilmu Publications.