Success is juncture and personal goal specific.

Whom do you consider to be the most successful person? Different people have different answers for the question posed.  Just to name a few, Warren buffet, Barack Obama, Mother Teresa and the list goes on. If you had noticed not one person can be compared with another. Mr. Buffet is considered to be a witty investor, President Obama is of course talked for holding the most powerful position in the United States perhaps in the world and Mother Teresa is well known for her prodigious acts of charity.

So what is success? Is it to be very wealthy or being able to take care of the poor and needy? Some people have a clear cut choice while others may have a blend of choices. For example, profit making companies engage into corporate social responsibility activities. The Tata group of companies alias the Tatas is the classic example of developing communities along with reaping profits.

As an individual we are often distorted by peer pressure and other worldly influences to judge success appropriately. Most of us in fact all of us at some point or the other must have faced with bizarre comments and questions from peers, colleagues and even family. “Why didn't you get into IT sector, it pays so well?” “Why are you into teaching profession when you can be a successful banker?”  “Are you just a sales person?”  That’s a snapshot from the never ending list of questions coming from almost every person we bump in our lives. The usual reaction would be to get confused whether we are doing the right stuff or not. But in reality, the questions are actually based not on your success but on the person’s personal opinion about success. To put in simpler terms, if a person thinks that jobs paying high salary is the best then they are the ones who pose the first two type of questions. In such situations, if you think answering them is appropriate and worth your time then do answer them firmly that this is what you like. Say that I have a passion in teaching or writing and I don’t care how much it pays, I am not doing this for money alone. And so is vice versa, if you think that making good amount of money is crucial, say that I enjoy being a sales person making a huge chunk of income in a short span of time and also climbing up the corporate ladder faster than any other employee. To gain this confidence, one needs to be ethical. Your activity should be synchronized with your personal goals and juncture. Why I say juncture because lot of times we have to make decisions at a critical point of time, choosing path A or path B. If you think that this is the best that you can do under the given circumstance then you are definitely successful. I am not saying that you should get complacent, but what’s wrong in acknowledging your good work if you have put your best. To sum up, according to my experience success is something that you do what you like under the given critical conditions or juncture.