The Strangest Secret by Earl Nightingale - How To Live The Life You Desire

The Definition of Success
First, we have to define success and here is the best definition I’ve ever been able to find: “Success is the progressive realization of a worthy ideal.”

Success is the school teacher who is teaching because that’s what he or she wants to do. Success is the entrepreneur who starts his own company because that was his dream and that’s what he wanted to do. A success is the salesperson who wants to become the best salesperson in his or her company and sets forth on the pursuit of that goal.

A success is anyone who is realizing a worthy predetermined ideal because that’s what he or she decided to do … deliberately. But only one out of 20 does that! The rest are “failures.”