Success: A New Definition

S-U-C-C-E-S-S!
That's the way you spell Success!

That's also how the old cheer went. (Not that I've been an official cheerleader; just a sports fan who pays attention to everything on and off the field.)

If only success were as easy to achieve as it is to spell.
Or maybe it is. 

Recently, waking up each morning, waiting for my editor to say YES! to my latest book (the industry seems to move even more glacially these days), I don't feel especially successful. Then again, I have books with major publishers, I’ve won some awards, been asked to speak in schools and conferences, touched the lives of readers too numerous to count. And if anyone else listed these as accomplishments, I'd call them a success. 

So, I'm thinking, I need to wake up each morning feeling successful. 
And I suggest, if you've fried the perfect egg or you've fed a hungry bird, or, especially, if you've made someone smile, count yourself as a rousing success, too.
S-U-C-C-E-S-S!

Jody Feldman, in her positivity, is certain that her successes will continue any day now. Maybe even today/1