True Success

Success comes in many forms and each person has a different way of how they have made their mark in life, in their careers and in the things that they treasure most to them.

How they want to display it to the world and what feelings these measures of success give them. Look into your soul and you will know when you have hit the mark you may or may not have set yourself to achieve.

Most people measure success in terms of the material, in how much money they have in the bank, how big these houses or cars are, or how many club memberships they have acquired. These are how society measures a person's success.

But, is that a good yardstick to measure success?

Personally, I think that's not a truly correct way to measure real success. A person can get rich by unexpectedly winning millions. That is definitely not a success. A person can gain an inheritance from a distant relative, that is not a success too. I may someday win a big car in a lucky draw, that could be a success of luck but not a success of life.

Maria Duval adds that true success is the measure of ambition and once you have reached it, the spirit relaxes and the mind slips into an almost meditative state of bliss. This is something that can be seen in the eyes of those who truly succeed, from their measured dialogue, their contented smile, the easy way that they choose to sit and how they treat others around them.