{"id":115,"date":"2021-05-11T14:51:15","date_gmt":"2021-05-11T09:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rklearns.com\/?p=115"},"modified":"2021-05-11T14:51:15","modified_gmt":"2021-05-11T09:21:15","slug":"what-success-means-to-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rklearns.com\/what-success-means-to-me\/","title":{"rendered":"What Success Means to Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8ihqoEkx2rs\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nThe definition of success varies for everyone &#8211; but the definition that most resonates with me is the one by Dr. Earl Nightingale. He defines success as the progressive realization of a worthy ideal. Let me repeat &#8211; Success is the Progressive Realization of a Worthy Ideal.<br \/>\nI associate success with the journey of accomplishing what I have set out to achieve.<br \/>\nIt is the happiness in the pursuit of my goal and making progress that excites me.<br \/>\nSuccess is believing that YOU CAN.<br \/>\nSuccess is remembering to balance your work with Passion.<br \/>\nSuccess is doing what you love, and loving what you do.<br \/>\nSuccess is overcoming your deep-rooted fears and insecurities.<br \/>\nSuccess is choosing your own battles instead of getting into every possible fight.<br \/>\nSuccess is in NOT giving up.<br \/>\nSuccess to me is not in the things I own and the money I make, it is in the experiences I&#8217;ve encountered by traveling to over 30 countries before I turned 30.<br \/>\nSuccess to me is being able to take 4 vacations every year.<br \/>\nSuccess is the courage to start a new business during the recession.<br \/>\nSuccess is the love that I have given and received.<br \/>\nSuccess is learning something new every single day, and the amount of time that I am able to experience a feeling of happiness.<br \/>\nSuccess, my friends, is understanding that you are always in control of your destiny.<br \/>\nNamaste.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The definition of success varies for everyone &#8211; but the definition that most resonates with me is the one by Dr. Earl Nightingale. He defines success as the progressive realization of a worthy ideal. Let me repeat &#8211; Success is the Progressive Realization of a Worthy Ideal. I associate success with the journey of accomplishing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[113],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rklearns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rklearns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rklearns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rklearns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rklearns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rklearns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118,"href":"https:\/\/rklearns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions\/118"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rklearns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rklearns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rklearns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rklearns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}