I must ask you all a common but pertinent question- What success means to you?

Is it your dream job, having a lot of wealth, possessing everything that you have dreamt of or simply going to bed a happy & contented man each day.

Well, you may have your own way of defining success & there is nothing wrong in setting a particular goal & telling yourself, “For now, if I hit this goal, I will call myself successful” & then go after it.

But, you must know what this goal is going to add to your life once you get there. For example, if you work in a multinational company & climb the corporate ladder by giving 10 best years of your life & reach to a stage where you are still not sure whether you are happy with what you got in return, would you be called a successful man because you lead a luxurious life? If you have traded off your personal happiness for success in the corporate world, you have made a bad bargain, I suppose.

Still, being successful is quite a subjective matter & it’s wrong to make a judgment about someone else’s success through your set perception about it. So, I leave it to your better judgment.

Let’s try to find out some common ground which I term as ‘territory of success’.

If you are asked to write your own story of success, what few things you should do so that you make a perfect landing on your ‘territory of success’. What are the important elements of ‘a success story’? In next few minutes I am going to state some of the most important pieces of this jig-saw puzzle called ‘success’. You need to ask yourself 5 questions & get the answers to decide exactly what you need to do to become really successful in life.