Success- How do you define it???

SUCCESS is something everyone wants in their life...some say they are very successful and some say they are never successful...
i have often wondered what success actually is..how do you become successful?how to choose the path that leads you to success?how to make the right decisions at the right time , which enables you to become successful?
There were always doubts and questions in my mind about all these things.A lot of people told that for you to become successful in life, you have to be excellent in academics, go to the best schools and colleges and choose a very bright career like, medicine, or software engineering, MBA or civil services...
I didnt know what to do at that time, so chose one among these options and tired becoming a software engineer.I didnt know that was not what I really wanted to become in life until i came out of college and worked for a few years...Now what to do???I cannot go back and start over again, right??So where did I go wrong first???or what went wrong in my life??
I also wanted to be successful in life...I also had my dreams...then what happened???
At this point of time in my life, I met with some people who really changed my life in a big way...Interacting with them, helped me realise what actually was the mistake i committed and how it can be corrected..
the mistake was simple..i didnt have a powerful DREAM...i only had wishes...I didnt know how to convert my wishes to dreams and dreams to goals...that is where i got lost....
Now the question was, how can i correct it? for that also the answer was simple....make your dream very powerful....the way wil automatically appear infront of you...
Now it was said very easily....but how to make my dream powerful??was it not that powerful???
In pursuit of answers to these questions, i set my sail....
On the way, i started realising that, the most important thing for this to happen is belief in yourself..its not academics that gives you all these or teaches you all these...i am not saying you dont need academics in life...What I am saying is academics is not the key in your life...Majority of the most successful people who lives and once lived in this world were not great scholars...If you take a look at the Forbes magazine and check out the top 500 richest people in this world, around 72% of them have not even completed Graduation..30% have not completed schooling also..Then what made all these people successful in their lives?
Its their dreams that has helped them become successful..
As said by our great former President Dr.A.P.J.Abdul Kalam sir, "Dreams are not that you see in your sleep...Dreams are that which does not let you sleep..."
Cultivating such a dream wil definitely make you successful...
Now the hard part...how to do it??
Before that comes some other things...You need to find out your WHAT and WHY first...Your reasons for those dreams could be anything...it might be silly to every other soul in this world...it doesnt matter...it needs to be justified only to your conscience...
Now you have to make your dream come before your eyes every moment...for that you have to let your dream enter your subconscious mind...this is not an easy part..but the rewards are worth all the pain...some of the necessary changes you need to make in your habits for this to happen are-
1.always think positive.
2.assosiate yourself with positive minded people more.
3.believe in your abilities because no one was born to be not successful.


i have started practising all these in my life and now I am experienceing the changes in my life...I hope everyone gets the ability to do that in their lives...