Comments on: Defining Success: What is Your Greatest Accomplishment?

By: Matt Cheuvront

Matt Cheuvront — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 19:02:44 +0000

Thanks Kristina! I owe this post to all of you who helped me put it together with some great accomplishments! Always great to bring people together to inspire and impact one another!

By: Kristina

Kristina — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 20:52:04 +0000

Wow, Matt. How do you do it? Such great posts every time. I don’t think it is even possible for me to leave a comment that will add anything to it. It was great to read everyone’s accomplishments and see the great things that people are doing. Hooray Matt for this post.

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 21:12:44 +0000

Agreed – it is an accomplishment in it of itself to be happy with who you are, flaws and all. If you can’t be happy with yourself – who can you be happy with?

I pose a question to you. How do you go about making a difference in the lives of those around you? How are you proactive in impacting others? I look within myself and I see what I am doing here, using this online platform to spread my own beliefs and messages to the masses, hopefully inspiring, educating, and entertaining all of you who take 5-10 minutes out of your day to read this. It means a lot to me that you (all of you) go out of you way to come though here, especially those of you who stop and share your own insight and wisdom, so I do everything I can to continually encourage that, to invoke insightful though and engaging discussion and debate.

Through it all, we grow, collectively. We open our minds to new ideas, we make friends, we have a place to feel accepted or even challenged. That’s what I do – that’s the footprint I’m leaving. It starts with this blog – and where it ends up – the sky is the limit. This is only the beginning for me.

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 14:26:00 +0000

No doubt Ana – it’s all about standing out. It’s hard, if not impossible, to do that with a piece of paper (resume) so it all comes down to how you respond during an interview. Personally, I think the ‘traditional’ interview is extremely flawed – and that there are better ways to get to know someone/find out if they’re a good fit. For now I just go with it and do my best, but somewhere down the line, I’ll employ my non-traditional thinking into the hiring process. You know, once I’m in the big time and have my own company!

By: Ana from far away

Ana from far away — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 02:16:52 +0000

I think that giving that answer is very important, because is like thinking out of the box. Everyone usually answers the same, always talking about the future: grad school, be successful, and so on.

The important thing is to outstand, say something that will make them remember you when they are analyzing all those resumes.

You are an excellent writer, so if you work as you write you won´t have any problem getting a dream job!

By: Elisa

Elisa — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 15:28:29 +0000

Wow, this is a tough question to get even over a blogpost, let alone in a job interview. Kudos for having the confidence and prowess to answer with such a great response. I know it doesn’t really matter, but I hire a lot for my job and that would have clinched it for me!

As for me, I think I wrote something to you (in DM…if only I followed any sort of directions!) and in thinking it over more I’ve come to realize mine has two facets. The first is living my life to try to make a difference in every person I come into contact with’s life. I feel like this above all else is what makes someone successful. The second is more about me, and that is managing to bumble thru life being the beautiful disaster that I am and still managing to end almost every day with a smile. It takes a lot, but its an accomplishment to know that I’m finally coming into my own and being happy with the person that is (disaster or not!)

By: Matt

Matt — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 12:31:14 +0000

@Sam – It sounds like we traveled down the same collegiate path. I absolutely tanked my Freshman year. Never failed a class, but came pretty damn close. This can be attributed to the partying, drinking, new-found freedom, and general not-giving-a-damn. As you (and everyone else knows) once your GPA is down, it takes forever to bring it back up. My last three years were spent busting my ass getting my GPA back up to a respectable level. It was a heck of an accomplishment for me to end up where I did as well.

Living in the moment is easier said than done – we’re always going to dwell on the past and look to the future. But the more we can dedicate to the RIGHT NOW, the more we’ll really be able to get out of life.