“To me success isn’t about gaining control over your environment or dominating externals, like making a lot of money or moving up the ranks in your career. I believe that success in life is internal and comes from developing mastery over yourself and using this mastery so you can serve others in the fulfillment of your purpose. When this path is pursued an abundant peace of mind is cultivated due to the non attachment to the material things of life. Because you are in alignment with your purpose and your “one thing”, you can always answer the question “why?”. Your sense of being, settled and balanced, is very strong. All your actions and decisions, the quality of your relationships, all flow from this more evolved state of clarity and calm. Attaining certain milestones…are more of a by-product of true success. They will happen, but we don’t focus on these goals.”
–Mark Dvine, Unbeatable Mind
This kind of success is available to everyone and the bell curve doesn’t apply to it. That long post kind of alludes to this but in a way that still uses external success as the crieteria, missing the point.
undergrad - Wayland Baptist University, majored in Spanish.
MS Finance, UT-San Antonio. (More than makes up for the hacksaw undergrad.)
At 25, I was a lower enlisted Marine working as a cryptologic linguist for the NSA. But I got over it, and moved on to my elite job as a Portfolio and Risk Management Consultant at Ameriprise Financial shortly after.