Today is September 25 and the Navigate the Chaos question to consider is “How often do you define, and then redefine, your definition of success?”
People who navigate the chaos understand that they have to continuously work on their definition of success.
Life is far from static, and therefore, our needs, situations, and circumstances change thus challenging one to rethink their very definition of success. BC Forbes is one such person.
As Forbes noted “Success is finding, or making, that position which enables you to contribute to the world the very greatest services of which you are capable.” Forbes was born in New Deer, Aberdeenshire, in Scotland, the son of Agnes and Robert Forbes, a storekeeper and tailor. After studying at University College, Dundee in 1897 Forbes worked as a reporter and editorial writer with a local newspaper until 1901 when he moved to Johannesburg, South Africa, where he worked on the Rand Daily Mail under its first editor, Edgar Wallace.
He immigrated to New York City in the United States in 1904 where he was employed as a writer and financial editor at the Journal of Commerce before joining the Hearst chain of newspapers as a syndicated columnist in 1911.
He left Hearst after two years to become the business and financial editor at the New York American where he remained until 1916.
He founded Forbes magazine in 1917 and remained editor-in-chief until his death in New York City in 1954, though assisted in his later years by Bruce Charles Forbes (1916–1964) and Malcolm Stevenson Forbes (1919–1990), his two eldest sons.
Forbes redefined his definition of success. Do you?