When I left the arc to help my mother…
When I left the arc to help my mother who was in the hospital at the time, I also tried very hard to make her nursing home a success. The term success is one that has multiple potential meanings. What is successful for one person May not be termed successful for another person.
— from Goals, Action & Defining Success (Goal/Action/Success/Motivation) · GB writing
In the book
Three truths make this possible. First, success is relative and personal — what counts as success for one person is not success for another, and there is no universal scoreboard. Second, you are living in several "stadiums" at once — the world of work, the world of family, the world of friends — and you do not have to be the best in any of them; you may be at the pinnacle in one and merely average in another, and that is your choice, set by how much each one truly matters to you. — Goals, Action & Defining Success (Goal/Action/Success/Motivation)