In memory of my loving mother..

What success should mean to you?

Brian Adams wrote: “To one individual it is the attainment of a vibrant personality, to another, the establishment of a fine home and happy family life, to someone else, the acquisition of vast wealth and power.

What signifies success to one individual may not mean a thing to another." If a person is working toward a specific, worthy goal that he has picked for himself, he is a success.

A success is a person who is a carpenter, mechanic, musician, salesman, and teacher because that's the profession or occupation he really wanted to be in and he chose for himself.

A success is also the housewife and mother who wanted to be a housewife and mother and who's doing an outstanding job."

My mother is the person who chose to be a loving mother, and, for us she has done an outstanding job.

My memory of Nanay was that by choosing to be a good mother, she became a SUCCESS!

Being a good mother is her lingering memories worth preserving....

Success is relative.

First things first.: Define your success.

Know your own concept of what it means to you. 

What is your picture of a successful life? 

The moment you establish your personal standard of success, that will be the journey you will take.

All in all, the whole of the matter is this: ‘Success means different things to different people.’

Success is a journey, an ongoing process.

“Timing is everything,” according to Dennis Waitley. You take life little by little.

 “Success is continual, John Maxwell said.

 “It’s not an event but a journey, an ongoing process. Success is the positive result of steady forward movement.”

If you want to succeed, act in the direction towards success. This is the journey – the longer you work in the right direction, the closer you are to success.

What is Success?

 Webster defined success as “the satisfaction of a goal thought for.”

 “Success should give you the gift of satisfaction and that certain zest for life that makes you look forward to each new day because there are so many things for you to enjoy, to do and to experience. Your adrenaline has to run. The pivot point is finding out what will motivate your own unique personality. Getting in touch with your true self must be your first priority!” That’s according to Ren’ee Harmon in his book ‘Complete Success.’

 My favorite definition is that of Pat Robertson who said that success is “a progressive achievement of worthwhile goals. The secret is in progression: That with every level of achievement, you find that another horizon opens for you.”

 Brian Adams wrote: “Each job or experience is a necessary ‘lesson in life’ from which knowledge is gained to be used in the successful completion of further aims.”

 The third definition is that of Renee Harmon who said that Success is “a painstaking process of building little success upon little success”. You consider the element of time.

 What is it to you???

You have a divine potential waiting to blossom.

Brian Adams, in his book “How to Succeed” wrote that every man is born with free will. You have the privilege of deciding for yourself which turn of the road to take.  The final decision rest within the confines of your own mind as to whether you succeed or fail; no other person can succeed for you; it’s a solo act.  

Norman Vincent Peale said: “You are someone special because you have a divine potential within you just waiting to blossom.”

Worthy for the answer..

Sometimes, we are answers to our own prayers.

“We are special beings”, Chris’s Prentiss said in his book For Once In Your Life, “able to direct our own courses, able to evolve spiritually to higher planes of existence.” As special Creatures with a God-like quality, I would say, there is a built-in capacity for every one of us to do what we believe we can do and to become what we are capable of.

There is an assertion from the liberal minded people that God the Almighty will not do something until his people pray here on earth.  Furthermore, he will not do something for you that which you can do for yourself.

Master life, rather than be mastered by it.

“You and I have the power”, according to Norman Vincent Peale in his book Amazing Results of Positive Thinking, “to live truly great.  The strange and powerful forces all around us and within us were surely designed by God to enable His children to master life rather than be mastered by it.”

I heard someone said that the Creator of the Universe will not make a house for us but, will, rather, provide for us lumber and tools. He will not make for us sugar to drink sweetened coffee or milk; rather, He only gives us sugarcane.  God will not give us dress, only cottons to weave. We are His hands!

Simply beginning..

Things themselves (circumstances, situations, events, people) will not improve alone. If your life is better, it is because you have done something constructive to make it better.

Do something!

Doing nothing leads to boredom.

Simply beginning will help you to eliminate anxiety about the whole project or assignment.