What is the Measure of Success?
I ask myself this question every day
In the society we live in today, almost every culture tends to measure the success of a person based on their wealth.
You will hear that this person is very successful, they have so many assets, and so on. Something that to some point, I can agree on, but things begin to get shaky when someone is very wealthy, but they are not happy.
There have been a lot of situations where you find someone is successful in their careers, but they lag further behind when it comes to other avenues of life. For example, someone might be wealthy, but they don’t have social skills, they don’t know how to live with people, they treat other human beings like trash and many other unpleasant characteristics.
On the other hand, you may find someone who is not wealthy but has other social skills that dwarf the wealthy person.
13 Things I learned the hard way, learn from my mistakes to not miss great opportunities and transform your life.medium.com
So how can we measure the actual success?
The way I would face this problem is by noting two major factors, the first one is happiness, are you happy where you are with what you have?. Then number two is the value you bring to your community. The rest is in the grey area.
Being content and happy with what you have is the most significant thing since no one else lives for you but you. So if you live to please other people this is a very unhealthy situation which might create a lot of problems in the long run.
If you are not satisfied with yourself, if you are not satisfied with what you do, then you may have had a successful career, a successful business, and many other successfully defined situations, but they are not successful for you.
If you find yourself in this situation, find a way out of it. Because no one lives for you but you, you need to be honest with yourself.
The second factor is what kind of value do you bring to your community? This is significant because when you bring a certain value to your community it leaves you with a sense of satisfaction.
A lot of people work to help others have a better sleep at night than those who do things that don’t bring much value to the people around them. It is extremely critical because referring to the first factor, you may have a huge factory that generates millions of dollars. However, the workers are in horrible conditions, and on top of that, it pollutes the environment.
Even though you might be happy and content with what you have, what you are doing is not morally right.
So by balancing the happiness of yourself and that of others, then you are indeed a successful person in the eyes of others and yourself.
What is the Measure of Success?
I ask myself this question every day
In the society we live in today, almost every culture tends to measure the success of a person based on their wealth.
You will hear that this person is very successful, they have so many assets, and so on. Something that to some point, I can agree on, but things begin to get shaky when someone is very wealthy, but they are not happy.
There have been a lot of situations where you find someone is successful in their careers, but they lag further behind when it comes to other avenues of life. For example, someone might be wealthy, but they don’t have social skills, they don’t know how to live with people, they treat other human beings like trash and many other unpleasant characteristics.
On the other hand, you may find someone who is not wealthy but has other social skills that dwarf the wealthy person.
13 Things I learned the hard way, learn from my mistakes to not miss great opportunities and transform your life.medium.com
So how can we measure the actual success?
The way I would face this problem is by noting two major factors, the first one is happiness, are you happy where you are with what you have?. Then number two is the value you bring to your community. The rest is in the grey area.
Being content and happy with what you have is the most significant thing since no one else lives for you but you. So if you live to please other people this is a very unhealthy situation which might create a lot of problems in the long run.
If you are not satisfied with yourself, if you are not satisfied with what you do, then you may have had a successful career, a successful business, and many other successfully defined situations, but they are not successful for you.
If you find yourself in this situation, find a way out of it. Because no one lives for you but you, you need to be honest with yourself.
The second factor is what kind of value do you bring to your community? This is significant because when you bring a certain value to your community it leaves you with a sense of satisfaction.
A lot of people work to help others have a better sleep at night than those who do things that don’t bring much value to the people around them. It is extremely critical because referring to the first factor, you may have a huge factory that generates millions of dollars. However, the workers are in horrible conditions, and on top of that, it pollutes the environment.
Even though you might be happy and content with what you have, what you are doing is not morally right.
So by balancing the happiness of yourself and that of others, then you are indeed a successful person in the eyes of others and yourself.
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