What is a success

What is success? The Oxford Dictionary defines success as the accomplishment of an objective or objective? But is it really that easy? What success have you earned? Or is it taken? As the cliche goes, is it doing well, or is it doing the right things? What is success about time? Is it about chance, luck, or preparation? Can you really succeed, if you don't reach your goal? I have a friend who really defines success as if you don't give up when you fail. And while I wasn't really feeling lucky at the time, I can tell you, some of my biggest successes are from learning from failure. When the GFC hit, the company I was working in closed its doors. 

Now I was dismissed from more than a hundred marketing roles before getting my next job. And I did something I never thought I would do, but this job was one of the most challenging and rewarding I've ever done. Now I asked some people that I know what their success means. My mother said, "Happiness, of course." My best friend, who is a mother of two, said that success for her is "a work-life balance and the ability to enjoy what I do every day." One of the amazing girls who worked for me said that success for her was about a personal set of gratifications, but also the acceptance of loved ones. For all these women, success was very, very personal, and dare I say, subjective. 

Now I volunteered for a non-profit called YWCA for over 15 years. It is an organization that is a woman-led organization leading social and economic change in 120 countries around the world. I was actually in school when I was first introduced to Y, and I was growing up in government housing in Canberra, wondering "what am I going to do with my life?" And through Y's International Leadership Model, I was mentored by some very inspiring women, but also sponsored. And he helped me take my ability to a point where I was just 19 years old when I played a role on the board of directors. Now, this was actually my first formal leadership role, if you were not considered the leader of Team Tookies in Brownies at the age of nine. 

But what happened was that really pushed me to think about what I was capable of, when someone was encouraging me to push myself. Earlier this year, I represented the YWCA in the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women. I asked some other women I met. What matters is a success for them. One of those young girls, who was serving as a world apprentice, actually said that success for them is a world where all people can live in peace, dignity, and freedom. "One of our 89-year life members said success. His bus was, "Empowering others". So for both of these women, success is something that was a feeling of being personal. 

This was something to strive for. And it was actually quite different from some of the men in my life. About success. My husband said that success is more than setting his hopes and goals. I asked my son, six, Tom, what does success mean? And he turned around, he told me, what success, mother now? I work in professional services for Deloitte and this is a predominantly male-led industry, but I have had the privilege of working with some amazing men who want women to be in the workforce and both, their personal and their Professionals are focused on helping achieve goals. 

Asked our CEO, "What does success mean to you? "And he replied like my husband. "Success is about achieving the goals that you set for yourself," but he said that to be successful, you have to be careful about how you define those goals. If you set them too low, you are not supporting yourself. But if you set them too high, you are not allowing yourself to aspire to greatness. Now when I was in New York at the United Nations earlier this year, I asked to meet with my global CEO.  

this is a man responsible for a business worth $ 31 billion, employing more than 200,000 people. Fat chance, right? Well, he agreed to meet with me for the entire hour, and we also shared a piece of chocolate cake. Success for me was no longer the meeting itself, it was the moment when I turned an idea into action, and I asked for its time. This was the moment when I chose myself back. I do not believe that success is about time or opportunity, or you have to earn it. I am a mother, I have a family, I work full time, I am a board director, and I play netball every Wednesday night without fail. Now not everyone really has the idea of ​​success, but being able to choose all these things.

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