I have been asked what my definition of success is.

Success is different things to different people for one it could be paying off your mortgage early another saving up to have a holiday every year while to someone else it is getting promotion and earning more money. To judge if you are successful you must have a goal, something to aim for and to measure against. Everyone needs goals without them you just drift but the goal must be individual to the individual, not something that someone else has set.

Therefore the person who sets his goal as retiring by the age of 50 and does so is a successful person. But if that person is not able to retire at 50 does not necessarily mean they are unsuccessful provided that they have revisited their goals and reset them.

I understand the concept of goals and goal setting but never applied them properly which is another reason for me being a nearly successul man.

I will possibly look at goal setting in a later blog.