How is success measured? (54)
Happiness is how I measure it.
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god measures it.
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If you die happy, comfortable with your life then you were a success. Success can also be measured by how many friends one has
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Success is the joy of learning, I've spoken with millionaires on this subject. It's playing the game, managing everything and riding the waves of win and loss. A statue of myself in a park would only help the pigeons after I'm gone, the point is to live life as though you would be forgotten.
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That's the thing...
People seem to strive for this ever elusive "success" thing, and most seem to have something that they think looks like success in one area of their lives, and yet they have laments about other areas.
I don't understand it, and I am baffled when people say they are successful...
I like the idea of happiness being a measure of success.
And friendships too..
People seem to strive for this ever elusive "success" thing, and most seem to have something that they think looks like success in one area of their lives, and yet they have laments about other areas.
I don't understand it, and I am baffled when people say they are successful...
I like the idea of happiness being a measure of success.
And friendships too..
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The measure of a life, is the impact you had on others.
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"Why are we here?"
That's because it's a fundamental question akin to the afterlife, the origin of life etc. that people will be arguing over until they break through thin ice.
Friends are a relative thing too, do you want a lot of ok friends or a few good friends.
I want a few good friends.
That's because it's a fundamental question akin to the afterlife, the origin of life etc. that people will be arguing over until they break through thin ice.
Friends are a relative thing too, do you want a lot of ok friends or a few good friends.
I want a few good friends.
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Ocee, I am leaning towards that way of thinking, 'success' within a person's life, is not measured in your lifetime, but for others after you are gone.
And TM, I know why I am here...
Friendship is not a word I use lightly, ever, for it would be to devalue the people I call friend.
So, I have ok acquaintances, and 'real' people, that I call friend, with a similar value system, and way of living their lives, as I do.
And TM, I know why I am here...
Friendship is not a word I use lightly, ever, for it would be to devalue the people I call friend.
So, I have ok acquaintances, and 'real' people, that I call friend, with a similar value system, and way of living their lives, as I do.
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Success is only relative.
If you actually concern yourself with what other's think, and you continually compare yourself to them, then it becomes a race.
If you set out to do something for your own personal reasons, then it can be measured as a yardstick for your success.
Success for a baby in an incubator is taking one breath after another
Success for a multi-national CEO is how big the bonus is.
Success for me is seeing people laugh.
So, I acheive success every day.
Im very lucky like that
If you actually concern yourself with what other's think, and you continually compare yourself to them, then it becomes a race.
If you set out to do something for your own personal reasons, then it can be measured as a yardstick for your success.
Success for a baby in an incubator is taking one breath after another
Success for a multi-national CEO is how big the bonus is.
Success for me is seeing people laugh.
So, I acheive success every day.
Im very lucky like that
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happiness is the easure of success
what good is it to have all
if you live in misery
just a thought
but hey what do i know
what good is it to have all
if you live in misery
just a thought
but hey what do i know
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dang how did you get so damn smart? What's going on D.
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Same ole', same ole'
Live, love & wonder ... and sometimes all at the same time.
U?
Live, love & wonder ... and sometimes all at the same time.
U?
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well it looks like that kid that came runnin up after the last i saw her with a broken leg, arm and pelvis...
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Thanks Duncan.
It is relative, for all I suppose, and the degrees are huge.
A struggling breath in comparison to a big cash bonus.
I hear people talk about others who are 'successful', and just wondered how they knew, what was it that made them seem 'successful' in that person's eyes, when I didn't have a clue.
I feel 'successful' most times, in my day to day world, but don't know if that is what it is called, 'blessed' is how I saw it.
It is relative, for all I suppose, and the degrees are huge.
A struggling breath in comparison to a big cash bonus.
I hear people talk about others who are 'successful', and just wondered how they knew, what was it that made them seem 'successful' in that person's eyes, when I didn't have a clue.
I feel 'successful' most times, in my day to day world, but don't know if that is what it is called, 'blessed' is how I saw it.
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Yes!! That is the 'success' I understand. Thankyou.
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Talk about someone's success is using your own yardstick to measure against someone else.
Its actually a word I use very rarely in this context.
I dont actually say, he/she is successful, as it has connotations of finishing what they started.
If you have a never-ending desire, then you can never truly successfully finish.
I want to live until I die
I want to travel & work in different jobs, in different places
I want to love without attachment or expectation.
I want to make people laugh.
Those are the yardsticks I measure my own success by.
None of them has concluded yet ... so, I have not acheived success.
Bummer!!
Its actually a word I use very rarely in this context.
I dont actually say, he/she is successful, as it has connotations of finishing what they started.
If you have a never-ending desire, then you can never truly successfully finish.
I want to live until I die
I want to travel & work in different jobs, in different places
I want to love without attachment or expectation.
I want to make people laugh.
Those are the yardsticks I measure my own success by.
None of them has concluded yet ... so, I have not acheived success.
Bummer!!
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It is very interesting, Success ,,,,,many people ,,aquaintances for many years, one in paticular was very surprised to here me say that I felt that I was unsuccessfull and that I wanted to acompilsh certain things before my death. He measured my life to what he thought would make him happy. Even now when we talk he does not see. As always Lee, Many of your posts make me think about things in my life. I will have to think some more on this. Today,,,and this month Febuary I believe that on any given day even hour I would have had a different answer for what measures success for me. Because of a series of rapid changes,,,,unforseen in my life I think I will not be sure for awhile. hmmmmmmm
Bettis
Bettis
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Thanks Bettis, I agree, it is what does my head in a bit.
There is the simplicity of 'success' in it's definition, (as in some of them here) which makes complete sense and feels right, and then there are the comparisons others can make of a third party's life, and their definitions of 'success', that I don't understand at all.
And that comparison of another's success is really only temporary, as life is ever-changing, for all of us.
Still has me puzzled...I am thinking that I don't need to know what success is.
Perhaps it is like 'thankyou'...just DO it.
There is the simplicity of 'success' in it's definition, (as in some of them here) which makes complete sense and feels right, and then there are the comparisons others can make of a third party's life, and their definitions of 'success', that I don't understand at all.
And that comparison of another's success is really only temporary, as life is ever-changing, for all of us.
Still has me puzzled...I am thinking that I don't need to know what success is.
Perhaps it is like 'thankyou'...just DO it.
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As long as my neighbors are incredibly envious of me, I'm good.
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How do you measure success?
Career? Wealth? Assets? Family? Friends?
And how do you know when you are there?
To be able to say 'I am successful'. 'I have acheived what I set out to achieve.'
I keep thinking that perhaps success is measured after you are gone, not when still here.
Success feels like a journey, not a destination, and I am interested in other people's views...