Failure and success are highly relative and personal concepts.
Let’s take Anne and Andrew.
Anne is a 38-year-old CEO of a major media company. The amount of money she makes in a month is irrelevant because, no matter how hard she tries, she doesn’t have the time to spend it.
Highly feared and respected, she always gets her way, and the word sealing does not apply to her.
Extremely confident. People bow to her because she has shown everyone that she is perfectly capable of biting your head off if you go too far.
What a picture. What a successful human being.
But she is alone most of the time because she can’t really trust anyone, and in that lack of trust, no one is permitted to enter her life. She never married, has no children, and has no relationship or contact with her family.
Andrew, on the other hand, is an aspiring writer.
He has a job that allows him to pay his bills and save enough to have a vacation over the summer.
Great guy and a few good friends. He has a good and healthy relationship with his imperfect family.
God-fearing guy.
Always working on himself. He enjoys life and is a joy to be around.
Andrew does not look successful, but he feels like a million bucks.
The best definition of success that I have ever heard comes from Earl Nightingale, and it sounds like this:
“Success is the progressive realization of a worthy ideal.”
You tell the world what success is for you, and you tell us what failure is for you.
A good mindset to adopt is the following:
I never fail. I win, and I learn.
Period.
With love, yours truly, Cristian.