There is no one destination called success. There is no one point of arrival, but many steps that lead to more growth, challenge, and victory. If one were to draw a line on a chart representing the journey of any successful person, it would never be a straight line rising from poverty to wealth, from loneliness to relationship, from obscurity to fame. It would always be a series of victories followed by successive failures, resembling more a stairway than a straight incline.
Once again, there is no unalterable state of happiness and wealth where you may arrive and expect to dwell for the rest of your life. Therefore, when you find yourself in a position of poverty or dissatisfaction, do not automatically classify yourself as a failure. It might very well be that you are in one of the many necessary stages of growth on the way to your next victory. Only he is a failure who has surrendered to an existence of mediocrity and subservience.
Do not think of success as the realization of a level of material or emotional gain, but as progress. Stop thinking in terms of success versus failure, but rather as progress versus stagnation. Are you moving (in the right direction) or are you stagnate? Are you taking steps, however small, or have you given up?
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