Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming. – John Wooden

I don’t think anybody starts out their day by saying, “Today, I’m NOT going to try, and I’m going to do everything in my power to be a failure.” Yet through our very actions, that’s what we do, because we judge our success based upon the standards of others.  How many times have you heard someone say, either to you, or others that you/they are not living up to you/their potential?  Well now I’m going to say “Says who?”  I can look at my children and my students and think that they are destined to do great things in their lives.  Maybe they will, but maybe, according to MY standards they won’t.  But what I think isn’t important.  What matters is that they live up to the standards they have set for themselves.

We spend so much time worrying about what others think about us, and how they perceive us.  Instead of taking so much time worrying about what others think, why not take a little time to discover what YOU think about yourself.  Are you living up to the goals you have set for yourself?  If you can look at yourself and with all honesty say that you are living up to your own expectations, then you ARE a success.