Everyone has his own understanding of success, probably based on his own experience. As we are approaching the end of the year, it’s the moment when everyone decides to take the new "resolutions" for the upcoming new year. But what is success? It’s a very pertinent and relative notion. According to the Webster dictionary, “success is what happens, good or bad, as a result of an act or an initial fact”. Usually, we rarely hear of bad success; it is more of a happy result, a favorable outcome of a decision, a business or a sequence of events. Success is synonymous with triumph. In other words, who says success means there have been a previous research, an aspiration, and then the desire to get a result. So, success is the positive end of an active process leading to this outcome. In this case, success belongs to the individual or group that has made every effort to get it. That brings us back to the notion of goal. We set a goal, we do whatever it takes to achieve it, and the T-time when we have reached that goal is the achievement. …show more content…
A person is successful from the moment he starts to move and act toward a goal that is really important to him or her. Success results from a combination of several factors. Take as an example the financial success that is associated with freedom, security, respect and prestige. Many people will say about a person who lives in a house valued at more than a million dollars in an upscale neighborhood, has a beautiful car, a cottage on a lake and a boat, that he is