I don’t know how you define “success”, but if you’re like me you define it by achieving a goal you set. If you mention the word success it automatically communicates that something has been accomplished – and it was a positive thing.
A few of my goals were to write this blog everyday and get the book I illustrated up on Amazon by the end of August. If you are a regular reader, you know I believe God has full and total control over my life. He moves me from thing to thing, person to person, job to job, and season to season. With those two goals He moved me right along and kept me on track.
What happens when I see a goal and God doesn’t? I start forging ahead, and before I know it, God throws in some formidable roadblocks and He persists until my goal morphs into a new one. I feel that happening with this blog.
For three years I have been adamant about posting everyday. Couldn’t go to bed without doing it. Over these past few weeks, if I missed a day here and there, it didn’t bother me quite so much. I’m wondering if a change is imminent; that maybe success is not going to be defined anymore by posting daily.
I have always written these posts with the attitude that God will place them with readers as He sees fit. Through Him, my words will go to the hearts for which He intended them. For me, that was success. Others in the blogging world might disagree. I’ve been told over and over that numbers and readership indicate success. Maybe God’s definition of success is different, too.
This idea originated with me this morning in a great blog post on the Steve Laube Agency blog, written by Stephanie Grace Whitston entitled The Oldest Profession. Check it out and see if gets you redefining success. (If you are a writer, you definitely don’t want to miss this one!)
And so, as another day goes by, sometimes success, and what it means to us, is merely a perception, and…I have written.
The direction differs widely…
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