Journey to Success: A Systematic Review

AbstractThe definition of success varies depending on who is giving it because of such influences as cul­ture, education, and family values. The definition used for this book is <i>success is doing your best to achieve a task or reach a goal</i>, and it is the framework used as we examine the term and ways of achieving success. To give any task everything one has is success because you gave it all you had, your best.Believing success is giving it your best cannot only increase one’s motivation to do 100% but it will place that individual in an emo­tionally healthy state of mind about what they have achieved that will motivate them to try and go beyond their best. If someone does not value an achievement because they believe success is based on a certain amount of money, a certain level of material gain or a certain quality they will have little motivation to even reach competence. Thinking of success as doing one’s best changes the way one rationales about success, and it will open the mind up to see more clearer when one has succeeded. Knowing you have succeeded will pro­vide motivation to do better during the next similar experience or jour­ney. Does <i>better </i>mean you were not successful before when it was your best? No. Doing better is yet another <i>level </i>to success and your best.One’s emotional state of mind has an influence on how much of one’s best is given. One might give more than their best, or one might give less that their best depending on what emotional state one is in. If knowledge has many levels, then so does success. This book will help you define what you consider success to be, because a firm belief in what success is will determine whether you feel you are successful or not.