SNIPPET MESSAGES ON SUCCESS

Hello dear steemians! As our mindset influences our outer world, i hope these snippets influence and add to your mindset in order to make you a better person today:

"The problem for most people who want to be successful is not that they can't achieve success. The main Obstacle for them is that they misunderstand success. Maltbie D. Babcock said 'One of the most common mistakes and one of the costliest is thinking that success is due to some genius, some magic, something or other which we do not possess.' What is success? What does it look like? Most people have a vague picture of what it means to be a successful person that looks something like this:

   The wealth of Bill Gates,
   the physique of Arnold Schwarzenegger(or Marilyn Monroe),
   the intelligence of Albert Einstein,
   the athletic ability of Michael Jordan,
   the business prowess of Donald Trump,
   the social grace and poise of Jackie Kennedy,
   the imagination of Walt Disney and
   the heart of Mother Teresa. 

That sounds absurd, but it's closer to the truth than we would like to admit. Many of us picture success as looking like one other than who we are-and we especially can't be eight other people! And more importantly than that, you shouldn't want to be. If you tried to become just like even one of these people, you wouldn't be successful. You would be a bad imitation of them and you would eliminate the posibility of becoming the person you were meant to be. So how do you get started on the journey toward success? What does it take to be a success? Two things are required: the right picture of success and the right principles for getting there. The picture of success isn't the same for any two people because we are all created differently as unique individuals. But the process is the same for everyone. It's based
on principles that do not change. After more than thirty-five years of knowing successful people and studying the subject, I have developed the following definition of success:

   Success is...
   Knowing your purpose in life,
   Growing to reach your maximum potential and sowing seeds that benefits others.

You can see by this definition that success is a journey rather than a destination. No matter how long you live or what you decide to do in life, you will never exhaust your capacity to grow toward your potential or run out of opportunities to help others. When you see success as a journey, you will never have the problem of trying to "arrive" at an elusive final destination. And you will never find yourself in a position where you have accomplished some final goal, only to discover that you are still unfulfilled and searching for something else to do. Another benefit of focusing on the journey of success instead of arriving at a destination or achieving a goal is that you have the potential to become a success today. The very moment that you make the shift to finding your purpose, growing to your potential and helping others, Successful is something you are right now, not something you vaguely hope one day to be."
-JOHN C. MAXWELL

"When you know your purpose in life and are growing to reach your maximum potential, you're well on your way to being a success. But there is one more essential part of the journey: helping others. Without that aspect, the journey can be a lonely and shallow experience. It's been said that we make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. Physician, theologian, and philosopher Albert Schweitzer stated it even more strongly: 'The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion, and the will to help others.' For him, the journey of fulfilling his purpose led to Africa, where he served people for many years. For you, sowing seeds that benefit others probably won't mean travelling to another country to serve the poor - unless that is the purpose you were born to fulfill.(And if it is, you won't be satisfied until that's what you're doing.) However, if you're like most people, helping others is something you can do right here at home, whether it's spending more time with your family, developing an employee who shows potential, helping people in the community, or putting your desires on hold for the sake of your team at work. The key is to find your purpose and help others while you're pursuing it. Entertainer Danny Thomas insisted that 'all of us are born for a reason, but all of us don't discover why. Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.' The journey toward success and fulfillment will not look the same for everyone because the picture of success is different for every person. But the principles used to take the journey dont change.
They can be applied at home, in school, at the offices, on the ball field, and in church. It doesn't matter where you are now. You can be successful today."
-JOHN C. MAXWELL

"I believe that each of us has a dream placed in the heart. I'm not talking about wanting to win the lottery. That kind of idea comes from a desire to escape our present circumstances, not to pursue a heartfelt dream. I'm talking about a vision deep inside that speaks to the very soul. It's the thing we were born to do. It draws on our highest ideals. It sparks our feelings of destiny. It is inseparably linked to our purpose in life. The dream starts us on the success journey.

A dream does many things for us:

A Dream Gives Us Direction - Have you ever known a person who didnt have a clue concerning what she wanted in life, yet was highly successful? I haven't either. We all need something worthwhile to aim for. A dream provides us with that. It acts as a compass, telling us the direction we should travel. And until we've identified that right direction, we'll never know for sure that movement is actually a progress. Our actions are just as likely to take us backward instead of forward. If you move in any direction other than toward your dream. you'll miss out on the opportunities necessary to be successful.
A Dream Increases Our Potential - Without a dream, we may struggle to see potential in ourselves because we dont look beyond our current circumstances. But with a dream, we begin to see ourselves in a new light, as having greater potential and being capable of stretching and growing to reach it. Every opportunity we meet, every resources we discover, every talent we develop, becomes a part of our potential to grow toward that dream. The greater the dream, the greater the potential. E.Paul Hovey said. 'A blind man's world is bounded by the limits of his touch; an ignorant man's world by the limit of his knowledge; a great man's world by the limits of his vision.' If your vision - your dream - is great, then so is your potential for success..."
-JOHN C. MAXWELL

I WISH YOU ALL A POSITIVE MINDSET FILLED LIFE!