How do you define success in life?

hi there TheCasualReporter! this is a very nice topic. with the current global economic crisis, it makes us think about our own ideas of success in life. many of us think of financial success. some think of career success. some think of personal achievements and the likes. in my case, my answer is plain and simple: success in life for me means having my life run the way i wish to have it. it means that all aspects of my life would be like this: finances: i would have a stable source of income without having to work too hard for measly sums. and this would only be achieved through entrepreneurship family: i would've been able to repay my "debts of gratitude" to my parents by helping them with their retirement. my own family: i would be able to have a small yet peaceful and happy family of my own personal achievements: i would be able to be a role model for other people by achieving personal success thru simple means thanks for reading and more power to you!

In the U.S., we all seem to be trapped in to the great American dream, the house with the white picket fence in the suburbs. One of the places in the world where a man can start with nothing and end up as rich as Warren Buffet and Bill Gates. To the individual that says that people have to work at Target just to make mortgage payments, I would reply that if that is the case, then you've probably purchased a home that you simply can't afford. DH and I are living in the house of our dreams but we didn't start there. We bought a house, fixed it up and when we could we rented it out and bought another one. We finally had enough equity to sell both homes and buy this one. Our problem here is that we don't think that we have to work for anything. We want it NOW. Your point is well taken that many people in this world would love to come to this country to work at Target. What a bunch of spoiled ungrateful people we are. Sorry for the rant. Let me get back to your original question. The longer I live, the more I realize that success has nothing to do with money. Sure it makes living more comfortable but at the end of the day you will have led a successful life when you've stamped your unique footprint on this world and made the world a better place because of the life that you've lived.

Yes, the meaning of success is not the same from different countries, families or eve every person. For me, I do not want to be a great man and I think I'm success if I have a healthy family and much little money surplus. But now I'm still in debt for my house. I'm happy though I'm not success now, I know I'll be success someday.

Hi, Success is the one that doesn't come along with prizes, reputations, cash, and so on. It should be felt by an individual , if his/her effort or hard work brought him/her , the desired results, it is termed as success. For eg. Take two person , A and B A a dull student, b a bright student. Just imagine that A and B had an average preparation for their exam If A is getting a pass mark , it is a success for him, If B is getting a pass mark it is not a success for him. Only when B gets above average , he feels he is successful. So, success depends on one's perception and status. Every human have some dreams to be succeeded ., it may differ from person to person. Hope it helps. Take care:)

Success has something to do with understanding what you want and need,and your purpose in life.if you understand what's going on,and you have an idea as to why,then that can be considered as a success.Success is hard to define.Every individual has a definition of this word.Success cant be defined by wealth or money or fame.Success has something to do with experiencing the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ in our daily lives,have personal relationship with Him is a true meaning of success.

For me, success is the feeling of content from one's heart. People always tend to say that they can only be successful if they are wealthy and we can't blame them because that's their belief. I can say that I don't feel successful now because there are things on my mind that bothers me and i'm just hoping that someday, i will feel that contentment in my life befre its over.

For me success is something when others appreciate the way I have achieve din life. success is also something that makes others happy. success is something that gives me happiness.

This is what I think of success and what it really is or means.I could not have said it better than this special quote. I hope this helps to brighten your idea of what success is. "To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends. To appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better whether by a healthy child, or a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded." ~Ralph waldo Emerson~

I think that success in your life should be defined by how happy you are with what you do and that you are actually doing what you want to do with your life. I don't think that money or how much stuff you own measures how successful in life because you could have all the material possessions in the world and still not be happy at all.

A success in life is... 1.when You really enjoy the job that You are hired to do, like it, grow in it 2.when Your work colleagues respect Your competency and knowledge 3.when You have good people around You 4.when You have a loving and caring relatives 5.when You are happily married and met the love of Your life, and when You grow up and live life together 6.when You have a good health 7.when You wake up in the morning, and feel passionate about life that You are living, and things that You are going to do today 8.when You fall asleep with a smile upon Your lips 9.when there are less people that you hurted, less people that hurted You; and when there are thousands of people that helps You to move and succeed in Your life 10.when You reach the moment of when people try to judge You, and leaves their comments about You to themselves because there is no more use to tell those things to You, because You know what You are doing with Your life and no judgements, made by other people, will ever keep You away from having Your life in a way that You want it to be! I just made these thoughts, and felt them to be very inspiring too. Thanks for starting up a very clever and interesting discussion. Milliards of people still can not find a solution for a meaning `what does it mean to be successful`. Have You found it? I still search for my own truth, but so far- it looks like this one I mentioned above. Take care.

I believe that success is accomplishing what really makes you happy, and that is peace, which gives you at the same time the strength and courage to go for all the material things you need to make your life easier, some of us don´t realize that until is too late while others have achieved this state of mind and soul previously and are ready to move on to new things.

To me there is not one definition of or for sucess. Sucess to me is accomplishing what ever your goals are in life. My mom said she do'nt care to be rich, just to have more than enough than she needs. Me, well I want as much as I can get. I think here in the USA, we are taught that you can be what ever you want to be. so to people in other countries who dreams of just being free may have a diferent view of what success is.

Yes I am doing part of saving money whenever we are spent money we have to plan and take care about saving and we have to maintain a level of money flow into the family to survive in this world. All other countries are going down and down on the economy and the survival become more difficult now to live in this world. Day by day the humanity and them originality is changing time to time worst than the olden days. In this modern world we have to run and live with the existing community and system. Success will not come to us easily in sitting one place and to enjoy it on our hand. We have to move ourselves to reach the success at its place to gather it. We need to work hard, proper plan, targeted, motivated working will bring you to the house of success. Success not an end it was a step in a long journey, to proceed more we have to continue it ever in our life to reach our destination that's our financial and wealth full fill ness.

i define success as how happy you are. if you love your life, and the people that are in it. then your successful. if you hate your life, and your dieing for a change...your not doing so good. lol

For me, success is simply being happy and contented with what you have. Its not really achiving things and realizing your dreams, its more on happiness and contentment.

I love my family and have few but wonderful friends. what is making me feel not successful lately is my job. I am a secretary at a construction office and work fulltime. Actually it´s not exactly what i planned for my life. Even more cause I am a night person and have to work during the day, and this is making me really sick. I wake up too early most nights I simply can´t sleep and need cafeine the whole day. It´s not easy. So hard to feel successful.