Success is a Journey
by, Corey Wells

The great Earl Nightingale said, “Success is the progressive realization of a worthwhile goal.” What he means is being successful is not just reaching your goal, but the continuous activity towards that goal. After all, there’s no point in a person’s life where they actually stop, look at what they have, and suddenly decide that’s it, I have enough and I’ve made it to where I want to be. Do you think Bill Gates and Donald Trump did that, or did they just set higher goals and aspirations and continue onward?

Success is a journey, not a final destination. You become successful as soon as you begin the journey. So if you’re striving to reach a goal you are successful. If a new salesperson’s initial goal is to sell 15 widgets a week, is his success concluded when he reaches that goal, of course not. They may have been successful, but the journey continues by setting new higher goals and objectives.

Being successful is about striving to overcoming personal barriers and recognizing your own unique dreams. Success is the result of a combination of commitment, passion, and patience on a never ending voyage. Make your entire life a part of one long successful journey.

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1. Beauty without intelligence is an illusion that is close to disenchantment. It is like a fairy that fascinates us, as long as we look at her through the enchanting prism of her beauty. However, it disappears as soon as the light of reason penetrates beyond the place where the eyes can see.”
   -Mercedes Cabello de Carbonera,
2. “Common folk, not statesmen, nor generals nor great men of affairs, but just simple plain men and women, can do something to build a better, peaceful world. The future hope of peace lies with such personal …. service.”
   -Henry Cadbury,
3. ” Furthermore, we have not even to risk the journey alone; for the heroes of all time have gone before us; the labyrinth is thoroughly known; we have only to follow the thread of the hero-path. And where we had thought to find an abomination, we shall find a god; where we had thought to slay another, we shall slay ourselves; where we had thought to travel outward, we shall come to the center of our own existence; where we had thought to be alone, we shall be with all the world.”
   -Joseph Campbell,
4. “Try to love someone who you want to hate, because they are
   just like you, somewhere inside, in a way you may never expect, in a way that resounds so deeply within you that you cannot believe it.”
   Margaret Cho,
5. “It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the
   mechanisms of friendship.”
   Colette,
6. “He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.”
   Confucius,
7. “To err is human, but it feels divine.”
   MAE WEST,
8. “Who can give law to lovers? Love is a greater law to itself.”
   -Boethius (Anicius Manlius Severinus),

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