Success is not about winning something at the expense of
something or someone else!
Unfortunately, some people think so but, in my opinion, they
could not be more wrong, and this post is going to prove that.
I’ll begin with the message conveyed in Robert Frost’s
awesome poem, TheRoad Not Taken. The essence of his
message is you always have the choice of an alternate route and it may in fact
be a highly rewarding one.
Or, there is the visual message conveyed in the image at the
top of this post. The crossroads
depicted would clearly confirm there are four different routes you could take.
And, so it is with the idea of success.
There is not only one route to success defined only
as winning! Let’s look at four of
them. Hopefully, that will be enough
evidence to spur you on to finding many, many more.
As I say in the description of the post, if winning were the
only way to succeed, success would be impossible.
Case in point…both young women in the video I’ve
linked to finished dead last in their race.
You can’t tell me both aren’t successful just
because they only finished the race!
Success is truly more about finishing what you start regardless of the
order of the results.
If you don’t quit, you can always claim some form of
success. There’s something and you just must
look for it!
Finishing what you start…one road to success other than
winning.
There is another road to success shown in that video. You can’t tell me the girl who stopped to
help her competitor cross the finish line is not successful!
Yes, she finished last but she succeeded in so many other
ways. Ways like caring; helping others;
and encouraging others.
Caring, helping, encouraging…one road to success other than
winning.
Or, how about the idea of staying true to who you are and
your values as another easy way to success?
You can’t tell me the girl who stopped to help is not successful in that
regard!
She struggled through the whole event and probably was
embarrassed she was going to come in last.
However, she threw the embarrassment aside because she stayed true to
her values one of which would seem to be…help someone out even at your own
expense.
Staying true to your values…one road to success other than
winning.
This fourth easy way you can succeed without winning can
also be illustrated by the young women in the video.
For the girl that stopped to help near the finish line, this
race followed one in which she had participated earlier in the track meet. In terms of finishing in first place, she won
that previous race and stood proudly on the podium to receive her just reward.
Some would say she should have quit while she was
ahead! Those that would say that again
are dead wrong.
The girl had committed to her team and coach a particular
level of participation during the track meet.
She would not have shown a lot of respect and appreciation for them if
she had not followed-through on that commitment.
No…that would not have been the right thing to do. So, she showed up and gave it her best. You can’t tell me she is not successful in
that regard!
Showing up and doing the best you can…one road to success
other than winning.
Are the four ways we have discussed to succeed other than by
winning really that hard to understand?
I suggest when you really think about each of them they are easy
to understand! If you were to practice
them it would be easy for you to feel like and be a raging success.
What is your favorite way of succeeding
without winning?
Please share your thoughts by commenting below.
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Thank
you.
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