@the_bob_delusion wrote:
Do you consider yourself successful? If yes, what makes you a success? If not, what's missing?
Do you rate success based on physical, financial, spiritual or familial standards? If so, name something that will be sufficient to propel you to reach "success"
Do you judge your success by comparing yourself with others? Who do you consider more successful than you?
GO
Success is achieving something you've been aiming for, or making a pretty good attempt at it.
It can be something relatively small eg getting yiour driver's licence, losing 5kg, learning a new skill. Anything that gives you that little tingle of satisfaction.
Every life is made up of thousands of events. Some will be moments of success and some won't be. That's true for everyone, no matter how exalted. We all have our failures or moments when we feel we could have done better.
Success can be in all the areas you mentioned, physical, financial etc.
In fact, probably most people experience success and failure in all of them at different times.
When you read about success, often it will be about eg a 'successful businessman' or a 'successful sportsperson'. It is only concentrating on one aspect of their life. It doesn't mean they are successful in every other aspect of life. No one is.
I think we tend to judge a person as very successful if they look to be succeeding in several areas of life-maybe very talented, making lots of money, seem to be having a good personal life etc
But they are the exceptions to the norm. Most of us are a mix of success and failures.
