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What does success mean to you? from “What is success…and why you might have it already?”
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You need to define success in a way that makes more sense and has — this is an important word — has more nuance than the current beliefs of success. There are shades of grey here. What’s the mathematical concept, you can never actually walk to a wall if you are constantly walking half way to the wall, you’ll never actually make it to the wall. There are endless ways of dividing up these levels of success and the trouble is, success for you could be quite different than success for you..or you..or you…and probably will be. You may feel that living in a small town, working at a good job, having your own business in a small town, working online is much more preferable although it only pays this much — to working in a corporate office with all the stress, but it pays this much. I personally have made that decision in my own life. I often describe it as I buy time. I have time to spend with my son. I’ve always had time to pick him up from school, drop him off at school, go to school events during the day, because I work for myself. I make my own schedule. Do I make as much money as someone else my age with my skills? Not in the least, but you know what? I don’t care, because its those people who come to me and say, “Oh, I can’t go to the ball game. I had to work late. Oh, I missed him hitting the home run. Oh I couldn’t go see him in the play.” They miss their children’s lives. That’s important to me. Other people? Maybe no so and that is fine. Typically, though, if they’re complaining about it, it does effect them. They are upset about it, but they have given that away in search of something else. So, we all have to decide, for us, what we want out of this.
