Is Success Measurable
Today will be a bit brief. I’m certainly guilty of introspection at times. Measuring success or victory is difficult because we move the target. It is subjective to the one deciding what success is. For a baseball team to have a successful year, do they have to when eighty percent of their games or ninety? If they win the championship does it matter how many games they lost?
My measure of success for myself varies greatly depending on the venue I am measuring. When I provide my intellect and personality for services with my employer, do I believe I am reasonably entitled to the compensation we agreed to?
Am I a father, a husband, a team manager, a solution provider, a poet, an author, a teacher, a preacher or a child of God? And in each of those areas how well am I doing? In which one(s) do I wish to be seen as successful? I was extremely angry this evening in reading the idiotic comments of a privileged American citizen who believes the lies of the enemies of our way of life. It made me consider not writing any more at all.
If my goal as a writer is to influence people for good for the Kingdom of God, then I have not been a success with this moron. So which am I? Where does my claim for triumph lie? Who set the measure and what will it take to get there.
Most of all I just want to be more Christ like. That means loving the abused and down trodden. That means fellowshipping with the righteous. And that means explaining to the self righteous imbeciles that their brains have failed to engaged in a meaningful and cognitive manner.
So if you will excuse me I’m going to reassess my measure of success.
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