What measures success?
Ever notice how 95% of people have no clue what they want to do with their life?
Most say “I don’t know what I want to be when I grow up”. What really pisses me off is the people that think this is an affliction that only they suffer, and it somehow makes them unique or special.
Give me a break.
I think it is just a symptom of being human. We all know what we would like to do. But if vastly varies from what we actually have to do to in order to survive. Sure being a beach bum in Hawaii may sound sweet, until you realize you still need to eat and would occasionally like to buy stuff. Life generally kicks in and most people at some point scratch their head and wonder what they would like to do with their life.
Too bad they are living it and not realizing it.
Bridging the gap between the needs of existence in this modern world and the needs of the soul is a tough thing to negotiate.
Of the remaining 5% of people that seem to be living the dream, there are three types.
1 – They love what they do and they got lucky and are wildly successful.
2 – They love what they do and they scrape by, but don’t mind it all.
3 – They hate what they do and lie about it and “force” success, sacrificing other things.
Of course we all want to be the first type. The Bill Gates and Sergei Brins and the Paul Allens of the world seem to have it good. They do what they love to do and they got lucky and they are all wildly successful.
But I think the lesson here is not to desire the first type’s life. The easiest way to bridge the gap, I think, is to make the realization that the second type is not bad at all. Accepting the fact that you may never be wildly successful and just loving your life and your work is probably the first step in actually becoming wildly successful.
Sure it may not be measured in terms of dollars, but success has other measures just as worthwhile.
Like health, happiness, and contentment.
I would make a guess that those that “force” the success by working on something they don’t really like but know will make money, then hate it when they get, would trade all that money for some contentment. Instead they fill their lives with cars and homes and toys and the result?
Always wanting more. Its a trap.
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