S=GxA: What's your formula for success?

What's your formula for success? What does success even mean for you?

Jim Bouchard over at Change your thoughts has come up with this simple equation for success:

S=GxA

“S” is success, “G” stands for goals, and “A” for achievement. Success is the result of your goals multiplied by the number of times you achieve your goals. In other words, the more times you achieve your goals, the more successful you are.

When I started reading his post I had some reservations about the primary focus on "doing" vs. "being" in his equation (a common malady in our action-addicted culture), but as I read further I could see room for a broader picture.

The trick is making those goals reflect the full spectrum of a thriving live, not just the standard measuring sticks of money, status, and power. According to Bouchard:

In the Dynamic Components of Personal Power philosophy wealth means to have “enough”. You need enough to create satisfaction in 3 areas of life: material, emotional and spiritual. Wealth means having abundance in each of these areas. What constitutes abundance in each area depends entirely on your personal needs and desires.

That fits nicely with the idea of 360-degree abundance. And the first step to achieving a full-spectrum abundance (including things like financial, health, spiritual, relationship, and fun abundance), is getting each of the elements on the radar screen to begin with.

I'm still not sure if I fully buy the exclusive focus on achieving goals as the path to success. I think there is also something to be said for simply creating the space for what we need to filter into. But if setting goals helps bring people bring a fuller vision of abundance into their lives, I'm all for it.

 

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Curt Rosengren, Passion Catalyst ^TM