Life Success

☁『TP of SAM』☁ says:

If you’re truly happy with your life, that is success.

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Marriage- When you have fights but you resolve them and work through them and find ways to still have fun and have complete trust in each other.

Doctor- I don’t really know this one because I’m not a doctor but I’d say when your staff respects you, your patients know they can trust you and your medical advice, and when you know you’re making people happy and helping people more than hurt them.

Housewife- I’d say when You can make things flow with the kinks being fast to straighten. Like, if you can find a way to get your kids where they need to go, build and take care of a home, take care of your marriage, but still have time for yourself to have for your little pleasures (as long as it’s not an affair D:), then I think that is success…

There are a lot of different ways to see success… No one’s life is ever going to be perfect. I think what matters is how you get through them and being happy with how things turn out instead of focusing on the negative.
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poornakumar b says:

Your criterion should be ‘am I’ (Are you) happy or not. ‘Success’ is others’ criterion. For instance your spouse (if he is also practical) would mind about your success for the sake of ’status’ in society. Leave ’set norms or criteria or yardstick to measure success’ to others unless you too need to participate in that game.
One thing should be born in mind, none should be hurt or ‘lose’ on account of you, if possible they should benefit from your success.
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amber says:

WHEN YOU DON’T LOOSE SMILE IN PAINFUL EVENTS SOME PEOPLE SAY IT IS SUCCESS .THEY SAY EVEN IF WE HAVE BIG BANK BALANCE AND WE DON’ HAVE SMILE IT IS NOT SUCCESS. I FEEL WHO HAVE CONTENTMENT IS SUCCESSFUL .WHO OBTAINED CONTENTMENT SAYS ACQUIRING CONTENTMENT IS SUCCESS WHO HAVE OBTAINED WEALTH SAYS SUCCESS IS WEALTH.
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Prince of Thieves says:

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shruti says:

you will know that..there’s no way to measure success
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Dipti says:

there is no measure to success in life, success is that word which can be said on your ability and mentality.
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Nemesis says:

A simple definition would be the gap between goals and actual achievements which is why many who are ostensibly ’successful’ nevertheless have a sense of failure because they know they could have achieved more.
This measure is however highly subjective – some set unrealistic goals due to excessive self-belief – others, fearing failure, consciously settle for less – happy to remain in their ‘comfort zone’,
And it would tend to assume certain yardsticks are measures of success – in terms of wealth, academic achievements, glittering prizes, popularity ratings, position in society, etc.etc.
An alternative approach would centre on (to use the current jargon) "being happy in one’s own skin" -which is more to do with acceptance and inner contentment, eschewing yardsticks, odious comparisons, envy, keeping up, accepting the random unfairness of life, etc.
But this is also highly subjective – indeed, it can be self-deceiving and/or laced with undue self regard – the ‘I’m all right, Jack’ approach.
So I suppose, if we can’t rule out subjectivity, it’s impossible to define any absolute or universal criteria/yardsticks. A humble nun sacrificing herself to good works amongst the poor might get just as much a sense of happiness and achievement as a multi-millionaire increasing his fortune, creating more for 100taxtyax revenues – and possibly making large charitable donations to the very orphanage where the nun works.
Who would want to measure or compare their relative levels of ’success’ ?
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zspp33 says:

Personally I don’t worry if others are "more successful" in the sense of being richer or having higher status as defined by this society. If somebody else wants to wear himself out in the rat race that’s his affair.
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Deja Vu! says:

…good health, a good night’s sleep and doing your best each day…
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Hurricane says:

very tough question ! we can define success like this,success is nothing but spending less time thinking about other people than they spend thinking about you…! just kidding…the concept of success,its definition differs from person to person….see the variety of answers here . your concept of success might not be the same as mine. success is measured at different levels,in different ways…when setting goals in life, it’s important that we identify what success means to us personally, so that when we finish the job we will know it whether we succeeded or not . success is achievement ,it is desired and favourable result ,victory in a game is success ! result that makes us happy is success.sharing happiness,sorrows with well wishers is success .

winning bids,finishing the projects,earning profits ,name, fame and creating value for others is defined as success in business ! becoming world champions,winning matches is defined as success in sports ,getting top rank in competitive exams and winning medals for best performance in the university is considered success in educational career . the competitors for the top position are many but there can be just one winner in the end and that winner is successful person !

success may not always entail happiness. your achievement may be considered as success by someone but it may not be a real success for you . there are successful businessmen,politcians,sportsmen …they are successful in their respective careers..but some people may not be happy with their achievements.for them success means something more…we don’t know what is that something more…that may be more achievements or that may be craving and winning well wishers.i mean many so-called successful people are unhappy in their personal life.
one more important thing is time,success can be measured by relating it with time.we gauge success based on whether the achievemnt was at right time/age or not.it is measurable in terms of accomplishments ,whether we accomplished everything which was expected from us .it can be measured/expected in initial stages of action based on -enthusiasm,sincerity,energy,integrity .

for some people success is everything,for some people succeess is nothing …some peope try to look at everthing in a positive manner….for some people having good family is success,having great friends who loves them is success,having best woman in life is success ! some people crave for spiritual success ! moksha is ultimate success for some people ! giving comprehensive definition to success and designing a device to measure success can be most successful achievement for anyone on earth .
right now you can measure success,look at the answers you got . only you can say whether your question succeeded in getting the answer you are searching for . you can say whether it is a failure or success or partially success .

Edit — only you can measure your success in life,not others.

"we should identify what success means to us personally before concluding whether we are successful or not ". the other way is giving others a chance to judge our achievements/performance in life ….that means taking others opinion. both these ways may yield different results in some cases, they harmonize in some cases.
professional success need not be ultimate success,like some doctors are very successful in their profession but not totally successful in life.
criteria of successful marriage — good understanding.with good understanding there can be no problems like unfaithfulness,hurting egos,etc.
How would you call yourself successful husband/wife ? — . a successful husband’s wife is the happiest person and vice versa . very deep topic !
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Balaji says:

No we can’t measure it.. We can able to feel our success… To feel the success… We have to work hard…. Should have a target….. Should have an aim…. Should think "We will get success"…. Then proceed… Then feel Success….

Cheers !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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friend4ever says:

Hellooo,
How do you measure success? It’s different for everyone.Some measure it by how much money they make. Others measure it by their career path and corresponding title.Then you have the people who measure it by the things that they have such as the size of their house, their art and jewelry and the number of cars that they own. Others measure it by the state of their health.
In my view, one is a successful man who needs to be emulated on his saving discipline, his ability to focus on his goal and his actual implementation of his plan.

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life…as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.Some people dream of success, while others wake up and work hard at it. Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.
But, there’s no doubt that the obstacles you have to overcome to reach your goals, shapes your character. It also leaves you with an inventory of invaluable experience and wisdom which you can draw on to keep advancing along the success path.

“The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.”
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banjaran says:

Success is a want for every single being and Growth is Success.

Success in one area does not guarantee satisfaction in life. You can reach all your goals and still not be at peace with yourself.

As soon as you become successful, you realize that rather than reaching the top of the mountain, there is always farther to climb … and the higher you climb, the farther you risk falling.

Ancient Indian wisdom believes that the most qualifying aspect of success lies in following the four Purusharthas( tenets) of life.

The Purusharthas are based on the four tenets of artha (wealth,social security), kama (fulfillment of desire), dharma( principles)and moksha (salvation).

Wealth or artha means earthly possessions and material gains. People usually work hard to procure such standards of success, and yet, find themselves wanting more.

Desires condemned by puritans the world over, is motivating force behind all action that manifests as success.

Dharma is a life based on principles. However the crowning glory to successful life is moksha or freedom from all desires.

Artha, kama, dharma and moksha patterns a rite of passage for an adult life.

According to Indian thought, success depends upon the smooth transition of an individual through each of these passages.

http://www.lifepositive.com/mind/work/success/success.asp

Here is a poem, written by poet Ogden Nash:

To keep your marriage brimming,
With love in the wedding cup,
Whenever you’re wrong, admit it;
Whenever you’re right, shut up.
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small says:

In my opinion, results as viewed and measured by self standards lead to the perception of achievements…… success, however, needs to be judged as viewed and measured by others around us (unless we can be totally indifferent to the norms and ideas set by them which is a utopian ideal for self satisfaction, almost impossible to attain while living in the society). The norms and ideas set by others in order to define success are not mathematical equations because success is a relative concept within the boundaries of a family or community or nation as the case may be. In that sense, what you say is absolutely right…. it is difficult to ‘quantify’.

Nevertheless, there is usually a reasonably well defined set of criteria to judge success, which would obviously differ in different cultures and societies, but is nearly unmistakable within a given culture or society because this is driven by the relative status of the members in the given culture or society, which remains fairly easily definable through customs, practices and relative attainments of the members in the given set up. Thus, in the Indian society, going by the traditional norms, a successful marriage is simply decided by the couple having lived together forever raising a few healthy, well mannered and reasonably well to do children whereas in a western society, one would more importantly talk about how equally balanced they were with each other both in respect of rights and responsibilities. What I mean is that the criteria need to be what are generally accepted and approved in a given society in line with its values and aspirations and these may not be quantifiable, but are reasonably clearly discernible when viewed and weighed through the collective eyes of the society as fairly consistently reflected by its reflections and reactions to different situations and individuals.

The above may look a bit vague to a mathematical mind, but I think it is as specific and well defined as anything relating to human psychology and behavior can be. Success is a psychological or behavioral judgment and not a mathematical or scientific evaluation….. the logic is not absolutely irrefutable, but it is firm and uniformly applicable within a given framework of time and context.
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Harsha says:

There is one and only one yardstick that can measure success across different fields, races, countries, interests etc. And that is happiness. Many people who ex[experienced hardship throughout their life without realizing will realize it when they are on their death beds. If at the end of the you are not happy then all your achievements and triumphs are all wasted. As love is the absolute type of relationship between any two, happiness is the absolute measure of success.
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