How do you measure your success?

While most of the posts here are about business practices, we don’t often stop to examine the most important practice of all: being decent human beings.

The other day, we came across these wonderful words from Curtis Clarkson, the editor of CMYK, the magazine for aspiring design and advertising professionals. We couldn’t have put it any better, so we didn’t even try:

“Success is far more than talent and luck and how much you pull down every two weeks or how many awards you have in a glass case, or the size of your office… Success is about character and being aware of your potential and limitations. It’s about being thankful, humble, and recognizing what you have and accepting it with grace and gratitude. Success is about being able to look back at the end of the day and say to yourself that you did what you were capable of at the time, and you did not destroy the lives of others in the process. If anything, you were able to improve them.”

Thank you, Curtis.  Well said.