What has to happen today for it to be a success? We know that preparing for a meeting there are steps we must do to have the outcome we want. What about your “average” successful day?

What really goes into a successful day and when will we know we have reached that mark? Is it when we tell others about the things we accomplished today that make it great? Is it their reactions to the events that define it for us? Are there some people’s opinion that carry more weight than others? Why? How active of a plan do you use to “see” your day line up to your expectations? Do you have expectations of your days?

Who owns your day? Is it your boss, your environment or circumstances of the day or perhaps something else entirely? Can you say with certainty “I am fully in charge of how I feel at any given time today”? This does not mean that you will always like the things that happen but you do get to choose how to view them. Yes there will be times when some distance and cooler heads will be involved to align emotions and thoughts.

Life really is about choices. Certainly there are actions behind every decision that you make that you may not either want or be aware of the possibility of. That does not change the fact that a choice was made by you directly or indirectly. What happens when you say “I have no choice” this is still a choice in and of itself.  You chose what to think and what to say.

Your challenge is to become more aware of your choices and how you define a successful day in your life. Whether I gave you $10.00 or $1000.00 how you feel about that is up to you entirely. Maybe you think it is fantastic a virtual stranger gave me $10 bucks wow! or you could think that a cheap skate who can clearly afford to give away money “only” gave me $1000.00 why did he not give me more? The choice is always yours…

To your success in all your days.

Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances. Mahatma Gandhi