Finding and sustaining success

"What does success look like to you"? Success probably looks different for many of us. It comes in all different kinds of forms. Whether it be in the kind of job you have. The lifestyle you want to lead. The accomplishments you have set for yourself along the way and have achieved. Success can be seen as a negative as well as positive based on how you choose to use your success. Do you use your success to further others as well as yourself or do you let success fuel your ego and make it larger than life. I believe truly successful people choose to use their success to help fuel other while along the way they use their success to keep themselves humbled and their ego in check. They actually use their success to help shrink their ego because they realize that their true success is not just earned, but it is also a gift that is meant to be shared.

Even though successes comes in different forms for everyone based on their values and desires in life, there is one common thread that runs between them. That is the feeling you get when you have found success through the hard work you put in to it. Success has to be earned. You are not given success. It must be worked towards every day. Not some days, but everyday. Because of this work that is needed to create success, the emotions and feelings that come from it can fuel some of the greatest experiences that we will ever have in life. These successes and experiences typically build upon each other to help create new ideas and new successes. Almost as if they become a self fulfilling prophecy. Positive growth, if worked at builds more positive growth.  

I consider myself extremely lucky that I get to see and experience successes every day. Owning a gym gives me the perfect view of the emotions and feelings that are created when hard work turns into amazing positive success growth. The success that happens in the gym transcends into all parts of life. When you achieve something physical whether it is a PR in weightlifting or completing a training regiment that leads to the accomplishment of a race or any other physical endeavor. That feeling of success and fulfillment changes your perspective on life. It teaches you that you have capabilities that you have only dreamed of. You have the ability to inspire yourself to greater successes and also the ability to inspire those around you. You realize that your successes and the feelings, emotions and lessons learned are meant to be shared and taught to others.