Define success on your terms

Do you know what "success" means to YOU? Yes, we all know what the media portrayal is: for women it's being a size 8, climbing the corporate ladder, maintaining a perfect house, spending lots of quality time with her children, keeping her husband happy, but also being completely up to date fashion wise. For men, it seems to be: be great at sport, have a woman on your arm that makes other men drool with envy, be top dog at work but do it all while being ostensibly very modest and droning the usual "I had a great team behind (way behind..) me" platitudes.

But what is for YOU? This is something I have been working to get clarity on for myself over the last while. And oddly enough it's none of the things that the media sell us. I suspect this is true for most of us..which is probably why the media (themselves trapped by economic imperatives) have to keep on pushing it. I find as I struggle with it (and as it changes...sometimes it feels as though I'm travelling through the country side and get glimpses of it over the hedges and trees) that it has certain consistent features: it's about WHO more than WHAT, it's about states rather than possessions.

At my website www.annewalshcoach.com I offer a free e-course called Personal Freedom and part 10 of that is called "Define Success on YOUR terms" (this was written by Thomas Leonard) and part of the exercise is to write your answer to the following statements: "I know how successful I am by how..." and these are in relation to what is most important in your life. E.g I know how successful I am by how little I care about what other people think of me" or "I know I am being successful by how well I treat my body".

He points out that knowing what success means to YOU..means that it immediately becomes far easier to make decisions and to choose priorities...so why not consider signing up for the e-course (no cost or obligation) or if this really interests you...let me know and I'll send you the document...