Running up that Hill

Have you ever wondered what the meaning of Success is? In other words, what does it mean to be successful? Most of us define Success in financial terms. Society tells us so, and we accept it. However, the truth about Success is that we each must define it for ourselves. What's your purpose? What's your life's mission? What's your vision? What makes you happy? Have you ever compared your lot to others'? Have you ever felt "small", even a failure, ignored, taken for granted? It can all make you "vengeful". But, hold on! The only revenge that matters is wild Success. But then, what does Success mean to you? Welcome to Running up that Hill. You are on a quest. You will discover H.O.W.T.O.S.U.C.C.E.E.D, avoid the traps that can come with achievement, and be successful on your own terms, just as you may have dreamt, only this time, you will be living the dream, even as you keep running up that hill of dreams. In the pages that follow, I invite you to consider what the essence of Success is to you, personally. I urge you to askew the traps of the socially constructed measures, which while laudable and externally validating, sometimes become void creating in the depths of the soul, because the individual's authentic self was denied in the pursuit. But does it have to be so?