We do it all the time. Most of the time without realizing it. When we are young, we have dreams. Sometimes the dreams come as we are older. They grow and morph and change, sometimes materializing out of thin air. If we are impetuous (as some are, certainly certainly not ME though), then our thoughts and whims come as quickly as they go. We reach and stretch and whisper our wants and desires to our dearest friends or loved ones. Sometimes we boldly state them with a margarita in our tummy and our best friend sitting across the table. It just depends.
Really, what IS successful? I mean, good grief, is it making $100,000 a year or more? Is it working your brain to oblivion and stressing yourself constantly AND making $100,000 simultaneously? Is it being a mom and all of the above at the same time? Is it being an author? Is it being a top chef? Is it being the President of a company, or better yet, the country? I have a feeling building success is what is important to you, the person it affects.
Are you a mom? Do you value the time you spend with your child on the floor, laughing, playing, chasing, teaching how to write their name, helping go potty, being a study partner at night, showing how to properly brush teeth, reading before bed? Is that your success? Do you spend a lot of time with your family? Do you say I love you a lot? What is a lot? Is it bad if you do? Can you say I love you too much? I'm all over the place here. Where am I going with this.....
I have aspirations. Things I want. Things keep happening, barriers present themselves and I quietly acquiesce. Take the easy road. Don't fight it. Create new meanings of success without realizing it. I know what success is to me...it's raising my boys and being here for my husband..it's walking tall and helping those I can..but my success that I will create later, I can see it, feel it, almost smell it....and it's up to me to make it happen. I have already acheived a high level of success in my life; I have love and trust and those two things are the base for the rest of it. I'm looking to the next level; the next chapter and what it will mean for us all. I'm looking forward to creating it and watching it blossom..that new meaning of success.
2009 is right around the corner and who knows what it will bring. I pray for good things but I will work for them too.
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Well, have a successful 2009!
At a meeting once for special needs parents the question was put out to us "how do you define sucess?" and in terms of your child how would you say that he or she is successful as an adult. For example Joe loves hockey will you only call him a success if he plays for the NHL or if just the fact that this boy with CP can play and skate is a success at all be enouhg in your heart.
I had to really chew with it and chew it every day.
I hope 2009 brings the things we have been working for, I hope it brings more of what I already have.
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