Most people define success by their financial status, where they live or what other people are saying about them. 
To enjoy a Perfect Life, you need to define what success means, on your own terms.
For example:
I know I am being successful…
…when my business energizes my life every day.
…when I jump out of bed excited about my day.
…by how much free time I have away from my business.
These definitions of success do not depend on something happening–an “if, when” scenario–or someone else happening–an “if only” plot. I can stop at anytime during the day and decide, am I successful?
The trick is in the phrasing. Most people tend to phrase these in terms of a goal: when I have a net worth of fill in astronomical number; when I have found my soul mate; when I have lost fill in publicly accepted number pounds.
Each phrase needs to start with
“I know I am being successful by/when…”
Unless you use this phrase, you have a goal, not a definition of success. They can incorporate a doing–an activity that would make your day–and feeling–how you would feel doing it. It is not a temporary state.
Ask yourself:
Is my definition dependent on something happening?
For example: “I know I am being successful when I have $1 million in the bank.”
That’s a goal.
Better to say, “I know I am being successful when money does not dictate my lifestyle choices.”
Does someone else have to do something?
“I know I am being successful when my children are happy and well-adjusted.”
Better to say, “I know I am being successful when I watch my children growing up laughing, and confident.”
Success definitions can help you to make better choices through out the day. If money does dictate your lifestyle choices, what decisions do you need to make to change that? Change the lifestyle or change the way you view your lifestyle. Make your success perfect by defining it on your terms.
From A Perfect Life by Thomas Leonard, Coachville.com
