Personal Essay: My Definition Of Success

Success, is a term with relative meaning depending on what aspect of life it is associated with. I view success in terms of achievements, fulfillment, and accomplishments. I set goals, and I do what it takes to make them happen, by dedicating my time, intelligence, skills to achieve them. I make sure that at the end of the day I can be proud of my work, knowing that I invested myself a hundred percent. Goals are a very important aspect of life, they are like maps that guides you, because if you do not know where you are going, how would you know when you get there. All aspects of my life are intertwine, and accomplishing something in my personal life have repercussion on how I feel in my professional life, and vice versa. I do not measure success on the size of my bank account, the size of my house, or what kind of car I drive, but instead I assess how happy and filled my life is. Filled with family, friends, love, happiness, and that is what I use to determines how successful I feel.

Success take work and determination, perseverance, and I am prepared to work hard so I can succeed. If history has thought me anything is that, it does not matter how many time you fail the one time that count is when you succeed. When things do not go my way, I go back and find out where I went wrong and I try again, however many times it takes to get it right. My mother is the best example of success that I have witnessed, she is a strong, dedicated women that have accomplished plenty without a solid education. She was born in a third world country, she lost her parents when she was eleven, and she did not receive any education from that point forward. However, she was determined not to live in poverty her entire life, she took the fifty dollars that she had at that time and became a merchant, buying and selling whatever she could find. Because she had a vision, now I am in the U.S receiving a good