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What is success?

By Guest contributors for CEOWORLD Magazine Updated:November 25, 2009

Depending on who you ask success could mean a number of things. Some will measure it solely based on results, others will say it is all in the action steps you take. In my opinion I think it is more than that. It cannot be measured by results or the amount of action put forth. True success comes from the heart. How you feel when you finish, and more importantly how do others feel after you finish? I have a hard time believing a great artist is more worried about how much time it will take him to paint a masterpiece than how he feels when the painting is completed. Or whenever a sports figure wins the championship the answer is no different time and time again: “What an amazing feeling this is.”

Why is it that books, articles, and training systems that are created talk more about how to measure success or create action steps to success, and never talk about how it feels to be successful? Now it stands to reason that in some form or another things need to be tracked and regulated in any business this is true. But it cannot be the sole focus of how we measure true success. Empowering our employees, creating great relationships or making a difference in our community. These are ways to truly measure our successes whether in business or our personal life. I have done some extensive research the most successful people, the most successful organizations and after a great achievement rarely talk about the system or game plan that got them there, but always how they feel after they got there.

I think of all the most influential speeches given through history; The Gettysburg Address by President Lincoln, I Have A Dream by Dr. Martin Luther King, or the President Kennedy’s speech Ask Not What Your Country Will Do For You. Do we think these speeches given by these amazing men were measured by anything other than feelings? To this day those words ring from the power of the men delivering them not by how well it would go over on a poll result. Because they were delivered with passion and feeling, not by the thought of how they were going to be measured.

Go to Amazon.com and search the word success, your result will look a lot like this; 832,342 results. Quite an overload wouldn’t you say? The reason I show you this is to illustrate the point that even the books we read more often then not, look at success as something measured by numbers. Trying to pinpoint when this happened is a hard thing to do. It seems as though every time we have major collapses in our economy, more and more we see the writing on the wall. It says the only way to fix this is to measure this or measure that and then we will truly have our answers. What a joke, some of the greatest accomplishments ever created were based on a feeling far greater than the results. You can measure all you want ideas, systems, and trainings but you can’t measure the size of someone’s heart. You can’t measure their commitment level to a cause. And because of that, most businesses as well as individuals miss the mark of true success.

Now I can just imagine some of the readers out there are saying this guy is crazy. He has no idea what he is talking about , “I have been extremely successful in my life and it had nothing to do with feelings.” Maybe it is true, maybe not, let’s say we test it? Well you have to ask yourself how did you get to where you are in your personal or professional life? What event or idea helped get you there? Now you may even say a particular system got you to where you are in your life. Good! Now for the big questions. Are you ready??? When things were not going your way or went bad how did you feel? When you were at a point of what you define as successful what was it like? As you are asking yourself these questions, how do you feel?

Now let’s review shall we? First when things were not going your way or went bad how did you feel? Maybe angry or upset? Maybe the system you were using was not working? Maybe you had this burning feeling inside to keep going or not to quit. Which one do you think served you the best? You guessed it, it was your feelings. The second question was when you were at the point of what you define as success what was it like? Did you recall the system that got you there? Did you recall all the work put in? Or did you recall the feeling of being successful?

I point this out because all too often in life as well as in business we put all the emphasis on measuring success instead of understanding what success feels like. We can teach most anyone a system to be successful, whether it be in real estate, financial services or managing a hotel. When we teach what true success really feels like, we empower them to be successful. By doing that, they can teach someone else, and they can teach someone else…….. and with that success will not be a system that we measure. Rather, it will be a feeling that we embody.

Remember be positive, be real and live your life In The Zone.

By, Dave Muraco is a certified life coach, motivator and radio talk show host who lives in Oneida. In 2004 he founded “In The Zone”, a business dedicated to helping people reach their goals. (http://In-the-zone.biz)

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