how do you define success?

Many people have asked me, how to I define success?

The important question is, ‘How do you define success?’

Below is a range of responses from my The Art of Success Questionnaire.

Do you notice any key themes? Are any success triggers for you?

• Fulfillment from my own endeavors

• You can be “in the moment” all the time

• Living creatively, i.e. making a living off of my creativity, always learning and growing, new experiences and opportunities. Love of family and friends.

• Validation, self worth

• Free-will

• Self contentment

• Continuous learning

• Pure happiness and contentment

• Doing what you love and being good at it

• Happiness, freedom, security

• Contentment, respect, lasting, responsibility, ingenuity, purposeful

• Happiness, joy, flow, money and fire

• Freedom to live as I please

• Everything in my life is balanced work, self, mind

• Freedom

• It means being happy in what I’m doing, fulfilling my life’s purpose, and being financially stable

• Happy and fulfilled

• Doing what you want, when you want with who you want

• Living a heart centred life, doing what you love, being content

• A feeling of fulfilment and contentment in all areas of my life

• Realisation of a worthwhile goal

• Being happy and living the life you’ve dreamed to live while helping others

• Success means living a lifestyle that aligns with my values and being true to myself

• Achieving even my smallest dreams

• Success is finding your joy in life

• Being true to myself, happy with where I’m at

• Continuous growth and making a significant positive impact on people’s lives

• Being happy to go to work and financially independent
• Having done pretty much everything I wanted to do by the time I die

How do I define success? Success is finished books! Living a creative, soulful life with the freedom to live my life as I choose, doing something that inspires myself and others. And success is also living a life of no regrets.

“I thought I was learning to live: I was only learning to die,” Leonardo da Vinci once said. He valued wisdom, understanding and freedom of thought, through the pursuit of knowledge gained from his own experience.

Leonardo worked and lived with passion and purpose—following his own curiosities to serving and benefit humanity and to share his knowledge with others. And to live, and die, knowing he had lead a significant life.

“I want to create miracles,” he once wrote. And what a miraculous life of significance he led. Leonardo pursued his visionary principles unto his death, documenting all that he learned to benefit the lives of others. In the process he failed, and failed again. He faced the wrath, scorn and jealously of others. He faced poverty, grief and loss. And at times suffered extreme self-doubt and despair. But he never departed from his course.

Be inspired by Leonardo. Challenge conventional definitions of success and live a life on your own terms. Take the Art of Success Questionnaire here >>

I’ve found the insights people have shared super helpful as I wrote my book The Art of Success. It’s nearly ready to send out to my advance readers, before going to the editor and then to print.

The Art of Success: How Extraordinary Artists Can Help You Succeed Personally and Professionally will be available in July 2016. To be the first to know and receive a free gift, click here >>

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