This is a common Miss perception among people who…

Page 15. This is a common Miss perception among people who use success as specific as a specific destination, as opposed to a journey.

— from Goals, Action & Defining Success (Goal/Action/Success/Motivation)

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So choose your reference points with care, and never measure yourself against someone excellent at a thing you do not even value. Third, success is a journey, not a destination — a common and costly error is to treat it as a specific place you arrive at rather than a way of traveling. And if you want the noblest definition ever written, it is the one often laid at Emerson's feet: to laugh often; to win the respect of the intelligent and the affection of children; to leave the world a little better, whether by a healthy child or a redeemed social condition; to know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived — this is to have succeeded. […] So here is how to fly the mission once the decision is made. Define success for yourself first. Make sure your ladder leans against the right building, live by the inner scorecard rather than the outer, and remember it is a journey, not a destination. Pick the right stadiums. Choose which arenas matter to you and don't measure yourself against people excellent at what you don't value. — Goals, Action & Defining Success (Goal/Action/Success/Motivation)

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