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While most people are chasing the idea of being “successful,” what if we got the definition of success wrong? What if we don’t even know what success really is? Which would mean we’ve been seeking the wrong thing.
I’ve been guilty of seeking the rewards of success more than real success. Problems arise when we get the two mixed up.
Getting the promotion, the pay raise, the corner office, the big house, the early retirement, the trophy, fame, scholarship, etc.—those are rewards of success.
The problem comes if you don’t believe success has arrived until you experience the rewards of success. Then that leads to burn out, a dog-eat-dog mentality, climbing the ladder at all costs, self-promotion, and exhaustion.
Success is not getting the pay raise or promotion. Success is being the type of employee day-in and day-out, arriving on time, working hard, and enhancing the company. Whether you get the promotion or not, you are successful.
Success is not getting the joy of having a genuine, trusting relationship with your adult children. That’s simply the reward of success. Success is being the type of parent that showed them devotion to the Lord, taught them how to pray, made yourself available to them, prayed for them, and showed that you had their best interests in mind. Whether or not you get to have that mature relationship with your adult children does not make you successful or unsuccessful. You were being successful when you made time to sit around the dinner table with your kids for the first 18 years of their life. That’s success.
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