McKey - Create Remarkable Success: Discover Your Strengths, Forge Your Own Path, and Build The Life You Want: Maximize Your Abilities

Success means something different to me, to you, and to the other seven billion people living on the Earth. Some of us aim higher; some of us are satisfied with less. Some people seek money; some people seek love or appreciation. Some want it all at once.

If animals have a survival instinct, we can say that humans have a success instinct. The drive for success pushes us forward, keeps us in motion, helps us create incredible things. We always want more. This is why when we complete a task we are not satisfied for long but instead think of the next step and how we can do more.

Have you given any thought to why some people are more successful than others? Why they are happier, richer, and more free.

Those who dont have goals in life are sadder, pessimistic, always depressed, and often angry. Mental and physical illnesses can attack this kind of person more easily.

There is a group between the super-happy, rich and active minority, and the passive majority. There are people who have goals, who even achieve some successes, but are not happy and their lives dont seem to move from point A to point B. These people put a lot of effort into what they do, but hardly ever find the fulfillment theyre looking for. This is mostly because of their jobs.

We spend most of our adult lives working on something. We go to our workplace at least five days a week. If we do something we hate, dislike, or simply feel apathetic about, all five days of our week will be stressful, unhappy or, in the best case, mediocre.

Is this success? Is this a life lived to the fullest?

My dear reader, now you must be thinking: this is not so simple, I cant change now, Im too old, or what does the author know about me?

As someone who had to borrow food from her dorms common fridge to survive, who had to wash blood vessels in a butchery, who worked as a car tire loader in a factory, but eventually became a translator and then a full-time writer and social development coach, I can honestly say it is possible to change. With little money in my account, I made a risky decision, but I knew what I wanted. Thanks to the bad jobs, I knew what I didnt want to do long term. So I changed my life and I tell you Ive never been happier or lived better.

Yesterday (Sunday), I had a conversation with an old friend. She asked what I was doing. I answered that I was working. She replied, Oh poor you, that must be so awful to have to work on the weekend. And when I heard that sentence a divine spark hit me. No, on the contrary, it is so awesome! Im blessed; I am happy; I love to do what Im doing! Her negative response only helped increase my awareness of my blissful situation. I could have easily chosen to not do anything on Sunday, but I wanted to write this book for you. I was so inspired that I couldnt think of a more enjoyable Sunday activity.

My point is that it matters what you spend your days doing. In the end I got a good job as a decently paid translator. And I was good. People liked my style. I ended up being the personal simultaneous translator for the general manager of a multinational company. I dont mean to brag; I just want to make it clear that I had a good job. But I wasnt happy, and I left it without regret.

The trigger for my personal change was a book called Frames of Mind: The theory of multiple intelligences by Howard Gardner. In this book the professor presents his theory of multiple intelligences (verbal, logical, intrapersonal, interpersonal, musical, spatial, kinesthetic, naturalist, and existential). It was the first time I had thought about my strengths? I thought about what I love doing the most, what gives me passion, and what I could easily do long-term (the next sixty years for instance).

Soon another question followed: would the activity I chose bring me success? Did I have enough knowledge to start it?

There has never been an easier time to follow your dreams. Thanks to technology so much information is available to broaden your knowledge in any field. We can develop any skill or intelligence. We live in a world of possibilities.