A very famous and very successful public figure in business once said, with not a trace of irony, that he had pushed his business to the very top having started with absolutely nothing – apart from the first “half million his father had given him to get his business going in the first place”.
Okay, that’s an amusing story but it does call into question quite how we all define success.
What does success mean to you?
Even so, there are a few things that we think need to be thought of in this context.
· Is someone who has a business worth $1,000,000 a success? It may sound as though that is a no-brainer but what if their business was worth five million dollars a year ago?
· Would you describe someone who has a team working for them of 50 people as an important and successful leader? Maybe so but what if that person is loathed and detested by their team?
· Is the person who is phenomenally busy and with a reasonable income successful? What about if that means that they never see their family?
Ultimately, there can be no universal definition of success.
At the Stars Institute, we’d like to see this in terms of the extent to which you as an individual are content and happy that you are utilising your potential to the maximum amount possible. Leadership development and training in this context transcends ideas of status and income.
What this means is that it is important to define personal success criteria that are meaningful to you. Surprisingly, not everyone who is a self-made millionaire is happy and content and some, by their own admission, will tell you that they do not consider themselves to be successful.
So, the question at the outset repeats itself - what do you think of as success in your context?
Frankly, we haven’t a clue to that in isolation and we can only help you to think about it further if you join us on one of our development sessions.
We’d love to see you there!
What does success mean to you?
At the Stars Institute's Youth Leadership Development, we wouldn’t presume to tell you what success should mean in your particular circumstances. That is something that each of us as individuals must define for ourselves.
Even so, there are a few things that we think need to be thought of in this context.
· Is someone who has a business worth $1,000,000 a success? It may sound as though that is a no-brainer but what if their business was worth five million dollars a year ago?
· Would you describe someone who has a team working for them of 50 people as an important and successful leader? Maybe so but what if that person is loathed and detested by their team?
· Is the person who is phenomenally busy and with a reasonable income successful? What about if that means that they never see their family?
Ultimately, there can be no universal definition of success.
At the Stars Institute, we’d like to see this in terms of the extent to which you as an individual are content and happy that you are utilising your potential to the maximum amount possible. Leadership development and training in this context transcends ideas of status and income.
What this means is that it is important to define personal success criteria that are meaningful to you. Surprisingly, not everyone who is a self-made millionaire is happy and content and some, by their own admission, will tell you that they do not consider themselves to be successful.
So, the question at the outset repeats itself - what do you think of as success in your context?
Frankly, we haven’t a clue to that in isolation and we can only help you to think about it further if you join us on one of our development sessions.
We’d love to see you there!
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