Yard stick for measuring success ? how does one say that a person is successful?

Hello Kiran ji, no doubt success is not permanent. I think here is no yardstick to measure the success. Success is associated with desires and desires have not any limits. I also think that a satisfied person is success person. But in present time no one is satisfied.

Hi Kiran! I feel that indicator for being successful is not uniform. It would differ from person to person. For example - for a teacher it would be the good result of his/her students. For a businessman - it would be earning more and more money. For an entrepreneur it would be turnover, which s/he always wishes to raise every passing year. I feel that if an average person is able to sustain himself/herself and have all the basic amenities in his/her life ..... like - food, clothing and home then s/he should consider himself successful. I consider myself successful because am in a position to sustain myself and I've an easy access to the basic amenities in life.

I honestly do not know this because in the examination of life there is no real bench'mark' to measure success.This is from my personal point of view. Success in work environment If a person has a peaceful , longstanding career with few glitches here and there we can call him being successful.There are many kinds of successes. Take the film world for instance; there would be some people who have had a meteoric rise but vanish within a short while.There are others who are always in films however small a role they have. Some people measure success from the money they have.But, unless one exhibits what he has how do you define this? EVen in politics a man's success is assured only for the five year tenure[here too it can be uncertain]. I agree with you totally that there is no 'absolute' in this word 'success'. One's professional life may be a success [he may be the topmost in his field]but personal life may be a mess. My yardstick would be a situation where we never are forced to worry about where our food would come from and we have a relatively peaceful life and family that enjoys good health.I do not have great desires except read a few good books , wear beautiful sarees and occasionally visit a green hill resort like Kerala or Ooty etc. None of the latter two are mandatory.If there is peace and good health at home then it is success for me.

None can achieve cent percent success in life. If someone can fulfill his or her target we can say the person is successful. Our desires are unlimited and it is a continuous process. So it is not possible to get all. Dissatisfaction make us active. So we always run for new target.

I realize that success is not about the amount of money that you have or being a rich person. It has something to do with achieving your goals in life by working hard for it. You must have emotional maturity wherein you were able to solve different kinds of challenges despite of the criticisms.

alot of people are trying to define themselves by material means. Whether its their house,car,stocks,savings,religion. I'm not looking for success whatever that may be. I believe balance is what will bring a sense of well being. If I make so much money but never get a chance to enjoy the fruits of my labor. Guess what I am rich and burnt out. While we create goals and pursue them its very important to just relax sometimes and not worry to much.

Yes success can be measured. Physically, it is the progress of life, compared to the state of life when you started out. We all have lived, and so progressed. How much and in what time make the subject Economics. There is a more important aspect to this. If you are content with life as it is today, you have succeeded 100%. There can be no second thought about that.

Hi Kiran As you rightly say, Success is subjective and varies from person to person, and also from time to time. Personally, when I was healthy, working, I measured success in terms of how good I was at work. Today, however things have changed. For me, today, success is in living this moment, enjoying the goodies of life even though I have not too many options. However, I think that we all have different approaches - some people take materialism to be a yardstick, some others think doing social good and there are also some who measure success in terms of happiness.

Hi Kiran, You can't say that period. Since success is relative depending upon the individual, I may think I am successful in life but you may not agree, as may-be your yardstick is intellect whereas my yardstick for success is wealth. Personally,my idea of success is knowing the meaning of life..from where we come and to where do we go. I feel that knowing everything else is no good because we can never control our lives. It is better to die free in poverty then to be wealthy but at the control of some entity or something or someone, who leads us on through life Regards

Actually, we have certain yard stick to measure success, like if we have lots of money , we have a good family, we are famous and you have travel the whole world, something like that. I guess success, differs from one culture and from one people to another. For me, having a peaceful and contented life is already a success.

As you already said, the yardstick to measure success will vary from person to person. And more than that, our concept of success change with the time and with the things that happen to us. For example, if for a person to be successful is to get a million of dollars, it could be a good plan. But if he win the lottery will his life have no more meaning? No, he will just change his idea of success. That's why we can't say that we are successful people. We always need to want more, or our life will have no more meaning. We need to recognize what we conquered, but always wanting more. Nowadays, my idea of success is to have time for me to enjoy the life, to travel and to spend with my fiancee. Happy mylotting.