What is REAL Success?

Why is it that in our culture we gauge success based on how well one is doing financially? Of course if that’s what success is then, ya know, it’s all good but, here’s the problem that's not success.

 Finally a post about REAL SUCCESS

 So, if you didn’t know, I use to debate in High-school and before we could debate or even discuss the topic we needed to define our terms or, in this case our words so, let’s define success. Here’s the common man definition or, what people think it means: “The fact of getting or achieving wealth, respect, or fame”. Here’s the actual definition: “The accomplishment of an aim or purpose.” Aim can be operationally defined as goal. So essentially success is fulfilling a goal which in theory is awesome. The problem begins when our goal is to make money.

Whether you realize it or not what you believe to be your goal dictates your actions. For instance if you believe your goal is to “Make money” well then you will do whatever it takes to fulfill said goal. And when you think about it that’s actually kinda scary we currently live in a world where everyone thinks your goal should be financial success and that’s one of the many issues with the status quo. Money has caused the destruction of friendships, families, and people’s entire lives. It has led to murder and even suicide in fact 89 people will take their life tomorrow and debt/money is a leading cause in that decision. We clearly see that money destroys us when we make it our goal.

So what should our goal be? Ah, that question has plagued me for years especially in High-School. At the risk of sounding prideful, I think I figured out what our goal should be. Spoiler alert — Sesame Street was right all along. Your goal should be to follow your passion. My father use to race Sled Dogs and I am gonna be honest he didn’t make a lot of money, actually he barely made any at all. But that didn’t matter he was following his passion. Sure, he could have gotten a white collar job and made a lot of money but that wasn’t his goal; his goal was to do what he loved. Now, doing what you love isn’t easy but, if it is truly your passion that shouldn’t matter. Money shouldn’t be your goal cause, let’s be honest if you lose everything you are left with nothing to stand on. 

And you Thought I was Lying

Money is spent easier than it’s earned but, if your goal is your passion that can never be taken away from you. The current situation requires action so, I have to ask one more question. What are you gonna do? Sure it’s easy to hash-tag and, write about problems but, our situation demands action. So I gotta ask what’s your goal?