How Do You Measure Success?

Success is subjective to one person, one person's self-made goals, and that's all success is.




So how do you measure success? 


I believe that in some aspects of my life I am already quite successful, and in other aspects, I'm still trying to gain success... and this is all down to my goals, some of which I've achieved and I'm now aiming higher etc. but some I'm still working on.



Google gave me these two definitions.



suc·cess·ful - səkˈsesfəl/

[1] Accomplishing an aim or purpose: "a successful attack on the town".

[2] Having achieved popularity, profit, or distinction.



You might be asking, "Joe, what is it that you think you're already successful at?" and that's a good question, thank goodness I was going to write a paragraph on it. First things, first, getting you to my blog post, that's a success in itself, right.



I'm all about my writing, so my goals are all about writing, this blog, my page, twitter, etc. and I'm constantly comparing what I have, to what other people have, and I know that I shouldn't do that, but I do it anyway, just to see how well I'm doing in comparison to them.



As of this moment I have 310 people following my blog, 1,881 people who've liked my Facebook page, and around 1,860 people following me on Twitter. I believe that this is an example of my success as I am only 19, and all three of the mentioned social media platforms are all about me and people are still following and liking, so that's good, it means that I'm giving them something that they want. (I think.)



One of my goals is to publish, which I'm close to doing... I've just been stuck in a rut, which I'm currently blogging myself out of (and it's working!). I don't really have sales figures to base any amount of success on, but yes, making money is one of my factors to which I will base my overall success on... as without money I can't do what I love, which is writing, blogging, promoting, designing and just being an all around creative thinker.



Another way in which I believe that I'm successful is my background, people who come from where I'm from don't tend to make much of themselves, and they tend to just live there for the rest of their lives, and nothing much happens (the area that I'm from, not the city).



I would like to be famous, but that's not one of my goals right now, I just want to publish and see where I go, and what happens from there. Eventually, I think I would like to be successful enough to have a Wikipedia page... I think that's when you know you've made it, when you have one of those. Ha!




How do you measure success?

What goals have you set yourself?




What do you think of my goals/achievements?



Joseph Eastwood




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