What Does Success Look Like?

How will we know when we get there if we don't know what THERE looks like? Using GPS gets us where we're going...sometimes.

Having a plan is very helpful, but when a person is younger sometimes their idea of success changes as they age.

At a young age graduating from one grade to the next and on through high school is a success. Getting the first good paying job, or maybe going on through college. Finding the right mate, earning a good living, raising a family, all of these things can be a success.

There are many who have expounded on the several different types of success, and there is more than one type. Living daily and doing the daily tasks for me can be a challenge, and by living them and overcoming the challenges that is a success. Here is the last stanza of "If" by Rudyard Kipling:

"If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,

Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch,

If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,

If all men count with you, but none too much;

If you can fill the unforgiving minute

With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,

Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,

And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!"

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46473/if

My idea of success is being true to one's own principles. It is important to remain true to God's principles first, and using those to guide our ideals, form the right morals and virtues.

Philippians 4:8 "Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honorable, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things."

Think on these things.