How do you measure success?

That’s a question all business owners should be asking themselves.

Is it the awards you win? The money you make? The people you help?

Sure it can be all of those things, but sometimes it’s the smaller things that make you feel like a true success. Sometimes it’s as simple as making someone proud.

My brother is taking a college course and he was asked to interview a successful entrepreneur. He chose me. It might be because he knew it would be easy to ask me, but I believe he feels I am a success.

I was extremely touched that he chose to ask me. I answered his interview questions. I’ve done a couple of similar interviews in the past, but for some reason, having this request come from one of my little brothers (he’s not so little, I guess, he’s 21) meant a lot to me.

Sometimes when I’m knee deep in client work, changing diapers and trying not to burn dinner, I don’t feel like that much of a success.

I won the Janet Jordan Achievement Award last year which was a HUGE honor, and that gave me my first real feeling of ’success’. I’ve had a couple other moments like that in the past year, but being asked to answer some simple interview questions by my brother gives me almost the same feeling I had on the day I found out I won.

Thanks BJ.

How do you measure success?

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