Issue 27 June 1, 2004

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Are You Too Focused on Success?

Does this seem like an odd question? After all I have been writing for some time now about success; what it means and how people may realize it. Is it possible someone could be overly concerned with success?

I guess the answer to this lies in ones definition of success. Very often, success, particularly in business, is measured by some form of objective accomplishment such as profits, stock price, market share etc. These measures tend to be short lived and they change constantly. Pursuing such success measures can become a debilitating obsession rather than the passion that will drive them toward greater achievements.

Peter Schultz, former CEO of Porsche, suggests that we supplant our previous concepts of success with the concept of Excellence. Excellence is a long-term concept that allows us to push on toward achieving our best regardless of the short-term results.

Short term results are often influenced by many things outside our own control, and an obsession with achieving success based on such results can drive one to be devastated by setback, overly confident by their own achievements, or overly competitive, to the point that they may be threatened by others achievements.

Those who follow a pattern of excellence do so in an atmosphere of patience. They understand that excellence in the long run is directly under their control, not the whims of chance. Although they are concerned with achieving short-term measures of success they are not obsessed with such measures, because they know that all outcomes, good or bad, are merely results on the path toward excellence. Such people are not devastated by defeat, they learn from it. They are not puffed-up over success, they learn from that too. They are also not threatened or diminished by the success of others, they rejoice in it and learn from it.

Pursuing excellence is a way of looking at success in a larger context. Instead of looking at success a merely an object or something to be obtained, you can look at it as a greater pursuit. The continual realization of your own, worthwhile personal goals.

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