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02-21-2004, 09:05 PM
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What is Success?
I was outside just now, looking at the rain...evaluating my life for the umpteenth time...  And this thing just up and gripped me like a chokehold... what am I trying to DO, here?
Answer: trying to succeed.
Question: succeed at what?
I've never held $$$$ as an indicator of success, although a few years back, I was pretty flush in that regard...now that I'm broke, money seems like a pretty good indicator, after all.
And yet, I know better. Sure, money's cool, it don't buy love, but it sure buys freedom from worry... 
So I thought I'd ask my TechIMO family... What do you guys think success is?
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02-21-2004, 09:06 PM
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That is a loaded question.
I think its when you are happy with the way your life is going, Sucess to me is family and happiness.
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02-21-2004, 09:20 PM
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And yet, I know better. Sure, money's cool, it don't buy love, but it sure buys freedom from worry...
| if i am content with the monetary situation i m in, i can always find something else to focus on,usually negetive.
a successful life to me means having a solid spiritual contact with my God and am free from anger/resentment.
and that aint no easy task..it takes me LOTS OF WORK | |
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02-21-2004, 09:29 PM
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| Quote: Originally posted by draboo
a successful life to me means having a solid spiritual contact with my God and am free from anger/resentment.
and that aint no easy task..it takes me LOTS OF WORK | WHUP!  Yeah, it seems as though as we get older, we have these horrible caches of anger/resentment. Eating away at our enjoyment of life.
That's a pretty major thing to free of, Brad. And, yeah, pretty hard to do. Nicely said, buddy!  | |
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02-21-2004, 09:43 PM
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Well with every passing day I get closer to 40,and realize that, HEY Your life is half over
I will be 39 in June,and still have no idea what I want to do with my life,so I guess I have prolly already done it,and forgot what it was.
Seriously,I think if you can get out of bed every morning,look in the mirror and like the guy looking back at ya you should be proud.I have things I would have done different,and still I don't regret anything I have done.
I don't have a lot of money,but the bills are paid,and the kids are fed,and me and momma still have a few frills,so it's all good in my book
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02-21-2004, 09:45 PM
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Success is an illusion. If you seek it, you will NEVER find it. If you do not seek it, it is immaterial. Success, by its very definition, is a measurement against a non-existent standard. What's the opposite of success? That's easy; failure. Now define failure. Not as easy, is it? You can find many examples of failure, but does that mean anyone else who hasn't had the same experiences has attained success? Not really. So even though they haven't failed, and the opposite of failure is success, they haven't really succeeded either. Or have they? 
Now I know where you get your username, Knot. Because so many of your threads tie my head into knots!! 
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02-21-2004, 09:48 PM
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my personal success is having someone that loves me that i can love. dont think i need to go on beyond that.
my business success is to have a self supporting business that allows me not have to worry about money, (ie making the morgage payments etc.)
Blaze
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02-21-2004, 10:15 PM
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| Quote: Originally posted by M_Six
Now I know where you get your username, Knot. Because so many of your threads tie my head into knots!! | HAHAHAHAHA, oh, M_Six, my friend, it is my pleasure!!
The... intensity... of your answer is what I'm most interested in...do you truly consider that success in life is an illusion?
Okay, okay...let's leave out the "what-is-life" questions. Let's concentrate simply on "what-do-we-consider-a-successful-life-lived" type of question. That should narrow it down, a wee bit. | |
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02-21-2004, 10:16 PM
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I consider life an illusion... does that count?
Blaze
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02-21-2004, 10:20 PM
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| Quote: Originally posted by Blazer06
my personal success is having someone that loves me that i can love. dont think i need to go on beyond that.
my business success is to have a self supporting business that allows me not have to worry about money, (ie making the morgage payments etc.) | Okay, in your first paragraph, you talk about love, and in the second, you talk about material gain.
So, yeah, these things are separate and distinct. I agree. Success on more than one front....
I would argue further that are more levels, though.  | |
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