Success The Easy Way

My son and I in a pool on a cruise.

Many people want success, and they think success is hard, complicated, or difficult. Success, however, is quite simple. Success is simply persistently being the person that you want to be, and that is one hundred percent under your control.

Many people define success by the world around them. They look to the world to tell them whether they are successful or not, and that is a tricky way to approach life, because you cannot control the world. And when you do things that way, you let the world decide and tell you whether you can be happy or not. You give the world the power to define who you are. And if you follow that approach, success may never come; or it might come and go, but in general, it will be a flickering thing and always seem out of reach.

You can overcome this by deciding consciously who you want to be and how you want to live. Who do you want to be? Imagine how the ideal you would live your life. Then live that way. Act that way. Approach every moment with that idea.

If you follow that approach, you can never fail. You are always successful.

The irony is that when you follow this approach, and you are the person that you want to be, the world outside will often see you as successful too. Being who you want to be and consciously choosing how to live is a very attractive trait that attracts the success that you used to seek in the outside world.