Measuring success with better school marks

What is success? There are a myriad measures of success and discussions (just look at tv, gossip magazines, blogs, twitter, facebook, msn ...) about who is/isn't successful or famous. Who is/isn't successful in $$'s, lifestyle, happiness, looks, skill, power .... How can we define and who defines our success? Yes, our success. There are just hundreds of ways to define what is "successful" and matching hundreds of experts willing to tell us what we should and shouldn't do to be considered successful. However the particular "successful" we are exploring is "better school marks".

What do we mean by "better school marks". This will be one of your measures of success so we must know what we mean by it. What will your "better school marks" be? What we are looking for here is a way for you to check if you have reached a level appropriate to your inbuilt ability. Yes, your ability. So, who needs all the experts when the success we are playing with here is very personal. It belongs to a single person. A single person who is able to declare that a pinnacle has been reached. The definer is YOU.

Make your own decision about your personal "better school marks". Take a long, careful look at where you are now. Write it down somewhere that you will keep as a record. It may be a long term record in which you put down thoughts, plans, successes along the way but make sure you can prove to yourself what has been done, what has been achieved, and what's next. Set a realistic (but not low target) mission. Aim high. If you miss high you may get reasonable for the first few shots. Don't worry about that, especially if success has been hard to come by in the past. The build to success may be a bit slow at first if this is the case. But, if you aim low to start with, the best you can get is low.

Remember, be selfish about this. It is for you. Who cares what others say. Once we reach a target we can stabilise and maintain that or go on to a higher plateau. Do not limit yourself under outside influence. Satisfy your own personal goals. Dream a bit. What sort of future do you want? What do you need to do to get there? Who will you be? Take your time to answer all these questions. Be sure to write it all down. Draw diagrams. Make up "what if ..." scenarios. Enjoy the thought of being successful now and in the future.