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BORA Consulting - Consultancy for Entrepreneurs - Ralf Borlinghaus
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"The very first step toward success in any occupation is to become interested in it."

(Sir Walter Osler)

Success is a category of modern times. Literature about success fills libraries by its own. If people talk about profession and business, it always includes the question whether someone is successful or not. That was not always the case. People wouldn't have asked a peasant, a craftsmen or a public servant about their successes in former times. The biggest compliment, which could be made to someone, was to be considered as proficient and efficient confirming that he did his duty properly. And to do so was ones raison d'être, ones reason to live. Emanuel Kant, the German Philosopher, named it that way: "We are not on earth to be happy but to attend to our duty."

 Fortunately, things are different nowadays. Nobody tells us what to do. We've got the choice and after we made our choice we want to show that we chose well: Those who decided for self-employment want to show up with a well running business. Those who opted for a career within a company would like to step up the career ladder visibly for others. Those who decided consciously for founding a family want to present promising offspring. A choice includes always the choice for  the consequences, which show up positively as success. Therefore, those who have the freedom to choose are always interested in the success of that choice. And even those who decide against middle-class options measure the success of that choice against the rate of personal happiness found outside society. 

Therefore, the choosing representative of modern times cannot be not interested in success. Some might say: Yes, choice is free, however, when the choice is made you're bound to the benchmark connected to your choice, which is defined by society. No, the key for personal success is not only to make the right choice but also to find the appropriate benchmark to measure the results. And this benchmark should be as individual as your initial choice since...

"...our life is what our thoughts make it."

(Marcus Aurelius Antonius)

(to be continued)

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"Success usually comes to those who are too busy looking for it."
                             Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
 

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