Words, backed up by their meaning, that haunt your days and nights will have a
real impact on your life. Always. So let's find the power words, define them well,
and let them take over our minds. We'll start with... SUCCESS.
[Bob Proctor] I was 26 before I
ever understood what success is. Success isn't getting there;
success is making a decision that you're going to get there and move toward it.
It's like the kid in school that's getting C and D average and he's working for
an A and B. And they're giving it everything they've got. They are successful
person. It's like a person that's maybe accumulated a million dollars and is
working towards an estate of five million and they're progressively moving
in that direction. They are successful person.
Each one as successful as the other. It's got
nothing to do whether it's a mark for a kid in school or it's an amount of money
for a businessperson. Success is the progressive realization of a worthy
ideal. That's Earl Nightingale definition of success. He stumbled on that in 1951.
He died in 1989, and he never changed a word. I came across that in 1961.
I have never changed a word, and I've never found a better definition. I think Earl
Nightingale has nailed it. Success is the progressive realization of a worthy ideal.
I'm here, I know I'm here, I'm going there, and I know I'm gonna get there.
I don't know how I'm gonna get there; but I know I'm going to get there.
[Matthew McConaughey] It's a get-rich-quick on the Internet riches 15 minutes of fame world that we
live in, and we see it every day. But we all want to succeed. Right? So the
question that we've got to ask ourselves is, "What success is to us? What success is
to you?" Is it more money? That's fine. I got nothing against money.
I don't.
Maybe it's a healthy family; maybe it's a happy marriage; maybe it's to help others to be
famous, to be spiritually sound - to leave the world a little bit better place than
you found it. Continue to ask yourself that question.
Now your answer may change over time and that's fine. But do yourself this favor:
whatever your answer is, don't choose anything that will jeopardize your soul.
Prioritize who you are, who you want to be, and don't spend time with anything
that antagonizes your character.
Don't drink the Kool-Aid, man! It tastes sweet
but you will get cavities tomorrow. All right? Life is not a popularity
contest. Be brave, take the hill; but first answer that question. What's my hill?
So, me... How do I..., how do I define success for me, myself. Well, for me it's a measurement
of five things. We got fatherhood. We got being a good husband. We got my health,
mind, body and spirit. We've got career, and we got friendships. These are what's
important to me in my life right now. So I try to measure these five things each
day. I check in with them. I like to see whether or not I'm in the the debit
section or the credit section with each one. A man in the red or a man in the
black? You follow? For instance sometimes, say, my career's rolling. All right? It's
way up here in the black but I see how I my relationship with my wife maybe it
could use a little bit more of my attention. I got to pick up the slack on
being a better husband. Get that one out of the red. Or, say, my spiritual health
could use some maintenance. It's down here; but hey, man, my friendships and my
social life they're in high gear. Right? I got to re-calibrate, checks-and-balances.
I got to go to church, remember to say 'thank you' more often, something. But I got
to take the talaq because I want to keep all five in healthy shape and I know
that if I don't take care of them, if I don't keep up maintenance on them, one of
them is gonna get weak, man. It's gonna dip too deep into the debit section. It's
gonna go bankrupt, it's gonna get sick, die even. So first, we have to define
success for ourselves and then we have to put in the work to maintain it.
Take that daily tally. Tend our garden. Keep the things that are important to us in
good shape.
[Oprah Winfrey] I think that success is a process and I believe that my first
Easter speech and the Kosciusko Baptist Church, at the age of three and a half,
was... was the beginning. And that every other speech, every other book I read,
every other time I spoke in public was was a building block. So that, by the time
I first sat down to audition in front of a television camera and somebody says,
read this, what allowed me to read it so comfortably and be so at ease with
myself at that time it was the fact that I'd been doing in a while. If I'd never
read a book like never spoken in public before I would have been traumatized by
it. So the fact that we went on the air with The Oprah Winfrey Show in 1986,
nationally, and people say, "Oh, but you're so comfortable in front of camera. You
can be yourself." Well, it's because I've been being myself since I was 19, and I
would not have, I would not have been able to be as comfortable with myself
had I not made mistakes on the air and been allowed to make mistakes on the air,
and understand that it doesn't matter.
[James Cameron] I guess success is when is when people are
listening, and and there's some measurable change in in consciousness
worldwide; even if it's even if the needle barely moves. You know? I think
that if you're, if you're communicating ideas and telling stories... if the
feedback, if the feedback is that those that those seeds are landing on fertile
soil that's, that's success.
I can certainly define happiness because
that's what, that's what I am. I mean I get to do
what I like to do every single day of the year. And I get to do it with people I
like. I get that, I get to... I don't have to associate with anybody that causes my stomach
to churn. And, the only thing in my job I don't like, and it's only happens
about every three or four years, occasionally I have to fire somebody, and I don't
like. That's the only thing. Other than... I tap dance to work and I get down there
and I think I'm supposed to lie on my back and paint the ceiling, you know...
or something. I mean, yeah, that's what I feel, and it doesn't diminish.
It's tremendous fun. So success is getting what you want and happiness is
wanting what you get. Well, I don't know which one applies in this case; but I
do know that I wouldn't be doing anything else. Something I do advise you.
You know, and when you got to work, go to work for an organization that you admire
people you admire because it'll turn you on, and you ought to
be happy where you are working. Get right into what you enjoy. You know?
And you'll be successful at it. You really will. I mean you will be able to miss and...
I don't regard what I do is the most important thing in the world at all, but
it's right for me. I mean, I happen to be wired in a certain way that what I do
works in this if I had to do. But... you know, Bill does. I mean lasts about ten
minutes. And that's true about a lot of things, but I luckily I kind of stumbled into
the thing that I do best, and that, you know, that it's worked out well.
I think if you, you know, if you believe in what you're doing many people
will tell you, you know, why you're mistaken, why it will never work, you know.
But if you really believe, passionate in what you're doing just... and, you know,
keep going , keep, keep pushing on and keep pushing on. [Richard Branson] And then if
you don't succeed pick yourself up and, you know, try again, and
ultimately, you know, if you're that determined you will succeed
in life.
People say you have to have a lot of passion for what you're doing and it's
totally true. And the reason is because it's so hard, that if you don't,
[Steve Jobs] any rational person would give up. It's really hard, and you have to do it over a
sustained period of time; so if you don't love it, if you're not having fun doing
it, you don't really love it - you're gonna give up, and that's what happens to most
people actually. If you really look at that the ones that ended up, you know,
being successful unquote in the eyes of society, and the ones that didn't
oftentimes it's the ones that are successful loved what they did so they
could persevere when, you know, it got really tough. And and the ones that
didn't love it, quit. Because they're sane, right? Who would want to put up
with this stuff if you don't love it? So it's a lot of hard work, and it's a
lot of worrying constantly and if you don't love it, you're gonna fail.
[Will Smith] Make a choice, like you just decide. What its gonna be? Who you're gonna be?
How you're gonna do it? Just decide.
And then, from that point, the universe is gonna get out your way.
[Simon Sinek] What is it? And I think it's very interesting that if most people
can't define success - well, it means you made X amount of dollars or...But if you
make X amount of dollars, but you spend more, are you successful? Or what means
you come home happy every day, okay? How do you know when you're happy? You know?
So, I think success is a funny thing which is we all seem to pursue it but we
don't know how to measure it or actually how to define it. So how do you pursue
something that you can't measure? Fascinating. So, when people say to me how
do you measure success, the question we all have to ask ourselves, "Am i
successful?" I don't know. I mean I had a good year last year. And what does that
mean? Does that mean I made a lot of money? Does that mean he's really happy?
Well, I'll let you decide. Right? Maybe neither. Maybe both. I had a good year last year
but am i successful? And the answer is, "No." I don't feel I am because I'm trying to
build a world that doesn't exist yet. I'm trying to build a world in which 90% of
people go home at the end of the day feeling fulfilled by the work that they do.
So I definitely took a step, a big step forwards my goal, but I'm still so
far away. So somebody said to me, "Then how do you know if you're successful?" And the
answer is: if it can go by itself. And so it is more interesting to me as a
measurement of success is not the markers per se, it's not the
financial goal or the size of the house that you want to buy. Those are nice
things. Go for it! But those are not measurements of success. Those are
just nice things to collect along the way. For me it's momentum.
I want to measure momentum which is, you know, when something is moving and
you start to see you lose momentum you like, oh, give it a push. Because if you
don't give it a push it's gonna stop and an object in stasis is much harder to
get going. It requires a lot more energy to get something started than it does to
keep it going. Right? And so, if you don't let it stop and you can keep it going
it's this you know it still might slow down down there but you can get it going
again much easier. And for me, the opportunity is to get the ball rolling
faster, and faster, and faster, and faster, and faster, and bigger, and bigger, and
bigger, and it's like a snowball. And my responsibility is - because it's not
rolling downhill yet, it's not on automatic yet - I need to still keep it
going to find that critical mass where it can go, "pssh" and at the point it can go by
itself without me, then, I will find something else to do.
[Larry King] How did we define success?
Can a bus driver on the street be defined as successful, and the guy
who's the CEO of that business not successful?
[Alex Barayan] So when I started out on this journey
I had the same definition of success as almost everyone. Which is,
I thought, you know, the more powerful you are, the more wealthy you are, the more
successful you are. You know, the Forbes list idea. It wasn't until I met Steve
Wozniak, the co-founder of Apple Computers, that he completely redefined
my understanding of success.
He helped me realize that, you know, if you put Steve
Jobs and Steve Wozniak side-by-side most people will say Steve Jobs was more
successful. But Wozniak thought me realize that success has much more to do with
how you define it. How you look within yourself and ask yourself, what do I
actually want; what makes me happy. And if what makes you happy is driving a bus
and coming home five pm and picking up your kids and
playing catch with them, and you're the CEO of a company and never see your kids
you're not successful. If you're miserable, if you're not doing what you
want to do, that's not success.
So, should we broaden ideas of what it
means as a definition flawed.
I believe that the natural human and really
Western definition of success, which is more money, more power, more prestige,
isn't right. Look, it might be right for some people who want that, but for the
vast majority of people who want to be, you know, a mother and working, and
helping at their kids school; or a father who wants to be, you know, involved with
their community. I think the idea of the more Twitter followers you have and the
more money you have is a flawed model. You have to look within yourself and ask
yourself what you want.
[Cristina Imre] What's your definition of success?
Find it, write it down,
and pursue it for the rest of your life.
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