For someone who has chosen a career part that puts me in front of people constantly, I find it funny as I'm sure you will too, dat I find it hard to talk about myself. Give me any random external topic to discuss and I can talk confidently on it but reverse the case and ask me to talk about something in relation to myself and I literally come up blank. So u can imagine how I felt having to write about my definition of success.
Success is one of those terms that are subjective in meaning most times than not, which means success to me will differ from success to you. However, I think that no matter how subjective it is, there will be an external reflection which when spotted by others can be termed as success. But even that in itself is subjective! Talk about living in a complex world!!!
Since everything is kuku subjective, I'll go ahead n give you my opinion on success. Success to me is LIVING ABOVE MY FEARS! Sounds simple right? My dear the world is already too complex for me to start having complex definitions for my life. The irony funny enough is that as complex as life is, life is also simple and as such as simple as my definition is, it isn't. Lol....
My life is made up of different facets that come together to make me. There is the religious, family, career, social, citizen and other sides to me. In all these areas of my life, I have challenges that crop up every now and then each with their varying degrees of fear.
These challenges are barriers that surmounting them (living above the fear) results in the successful life I want. Success to me is not a state you attain. Its a continuous process. When you tend to see success as a state you attain like having a house or car, then you find dat when u reach that point, if you don't watch yourself, you begin to retrogress. Bin successful will mean me striving to be better than I was yesterday in all areas of my life. With this mindset n its manifestation externally, I know for myself dat I'm a success n people will see it. An illustration of this is that I have just successful risen above d fear of talking about myself! You should too!!!
OLUCHI
