It has been that time of year once our yearly income taxes are finished, and we have seen how much money/wealth we have accumulated.
But is wealth the measure of success? Absolutely NOT. So if a large sum of money isn’t success, then what is?
To be successful you must first have a dream. This dream can be having your own business, paying off your mortgage/debt and living a debt-free lifestyle, or a style of life. For me this dream was to have a homestead, an off-grid cabin, be debt free, and have my own small business that revolved around Blacksmithing.
Now, you can’t stop there, as dreaming is probably the easiest step to becoming truly successful. Next, you must turn that dream into a goal. So write down the ultimate goal you want to achieve and then “reverse engineer” it with all the little steps you must take to achieve your life dream.
After that begins the work. This is where a lot of people fail at being truly successful as this will require you to get out of your comfort zone and possibly change most if not all of your daily habits. This will mean early mornings, sleepless nights, and not get to spend as much time having “fun”. And it is because of these little sacrifices that people settle for second best or get stuck with the attitude of “Where I am isn’t too bad”. I implore you, don’t be that person, for the greatest men and women in the world didn’t get where they are by not working hard and making sacrifices.
To be successful you must first have a dream. This dream can be having your own business, paying off your mortgage/debt and living a debt-free lifestyle, or a style of life. For me this dream was to have a homestead, an off-grid cabin, be debt free, and have my own small business that revolved around Blacksmithing.
Now, you can’t stop there, as dreaming is probably the easiest step to becoming truly successful. Next, you must turn that dream into a goal. So write down the ultimate goal you want to achieve and then “reverse engineer” it with all the little steps you must take to achieve your life dream.
After that begins the work. This is where a lot of people fail at being truly successful as this will require you to get out of your comfort zone and possibly change most if not all of your daily habits. This will mean early mornings, sleepless nights, and not get to spend as much time having “fun”. And it is because of these little sacrifices that people settle for second best or get stuck with the attitude of “Where I am isn’t too bad”. I implore you, don’t be that person, for the greatest men and women in the world didn’t get where they are by not working hard and making sacrifices.
When you achieve each little goal, celebrate it, congratulate yourself and thank God for blessing the work of your hands. However, now is not the time to take a vacation and become complacent, you have work to get done!
Then finally, once you have achieved the main goal, which originally was a dream, then and only then are you successful.
Then finally, once you have achieved the main goal, which originally was a dream, then and only then are you successful.
See, success is not money, power, popularity, public influence, but rather achieving a dream, YOUR dream for your life.
As for me, well I am typing this on a laptop powered by a portable solar generator, in a cabin I built debt free on my 28-acre homestead. And tomorrow, I will get up at the crack of dawn I will get up, walk to my shop, and build blacksmith power hammers that have been ordered through my small business. While my income level would be considered “below the poverty level” by my income taxes, make no mistake that I am truly successful
~Chase~
