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Achieve success with this unique recipe quickly!

10 tips for a successful life,

20 things that successful people do,

I stumble upon titles like this every day and I have to admit that I am attracted to read an article that guarantees my instant success. At the same time, I find such an approach extremely dry.

Because before we embark on a frantic race with the destination: Success, I think it's important to ask ourselves what it really means.

Depending on who proposes the definition, success can be equated very simply, with a number of different things:
*reputation
*power
*fortune
*a steady love relationship
* a place in history books
… And a lot of other definitions that I'm sure you've met at some point.

But who decides what success really means?

Promoting successful models and examples in media is perhaps the most important influence on our understanding of what the concept of success means. We tend to seek to achieve the goals and images that television and the internet offer us that are desirable. Often the ideal accepted model by the media as a person of value has nothing to do with what we are and what we really want.

From the family we also inherit an idea of ​​what kind of things we need to achieve in order to become successful people. We carry back the dreams, aspirations and ideas that school and family have imprinted on us early in life about what kind of people we need to become.

Someone told me at one point that we are the arithmetic average in terms of the aspirations of the most important 5 people in our lives. If this is true, and I tend to believe that it has a big part of truth, then we must understand that we take from our loved ones the definitions of success and we will implicitly try to achieve them.

At the end of the day, we can conclude that we failed to be successful, that we missed the road somewhere, although the recipe was strictly followed. We are demotivated and we feel that we have disappointed everyone.

Maybe it's a good time to get back to the question: what is success (for each of us)? Let's try to forget all the definitions, recipes and safe ways to get there (where?) And rewrite a personal definition of what made us and makes us feel like winners.

In my opinion, a successful life is about freedom. That is it. And freedom is not expressed by definitions but is felt. Just like success.

What does success look like for you?