Measuring success.. / myLot

Philippines

November 24, 2010 3:11am CST

I have been thinking of putting up for discussion about this topic for quite sometime now but I do not have enough time to write it.. Anyways, here it is... How do you measure success.. Is it by how high the position you are occupying right now.. how much wealth you have... how many mansions or cars you possess or how many wives or husbands you have or how many awards, recognitions, citations or appreciations received! But if we go by this standard then definitely the poor are not successful and can never be for the reasons that they will never have any of those that i mentioned... On the other hand, how many families have been broken or marriages dissolved to achieve what you call success.. it may even go to the extent of sacrificing lives just to achieve this success.. how much destruction have they done to the environment.. how many people were rendered homeless in trying to achieve success.. I am really at a loss how success is really measured... and I don't want to become successful at the expense of breaking families,sacrificing the environment and dissolving marriages... How about you.. how do you measure success..

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4 responses

paula27661

@paula27661 (15811)

• Australia

25 Nov 10

I think that the definition of success is a personal one. For me, success is love, family and doing what I love for a reasonable income although money is not a true measure of achievement because there are too many folks out there who are wealthy but desperately unhappy. I think being proud of who I am is vital to feeling successful so living an authentic honest life is the key.

sammy14

@sammy14 (834)

• Philippines

25 Nov 10

Thanks Paula .. there is really no standard yardstick for measuring success... it is a subjective one.. people have different opinions on how they measure success.. but I agree with you having an honest life and a family is already a success..

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Toni

@toniganzon (72285)

• Philippines

25 Nov 10

I measure success according to what my objective and goal in life is. Ever since I was a young student I always wanted to be a mother when the right time comes. I had a fear of not being able to bear a child and when I finally did, that counts as one success. So basically measure of success depends on each person and is very subjective, there is no fixed definition for it.

sammy14

@sammy14 (834)

• Philippines

25 Nov 10

I agree with you.. being a mother is a good measure of success and I really admire you for even when you were still a child you were already fixed on being a mother.. while others do not want to become a mother.

moneymommy

@moneymommy (3418)

• United States

24 Nov 10

Success is measured by each individual in their own way. Success for some could be money for others it could be having a happy family.

sammy14

@sammy14 (834)

• Philippines

25 Nov 10

It would be best if money plus family... but the problem with some people is wrong priorities in life... money first and when you have money then you will seek a family.. it should be the other way around... that to me is the real measurement of success....

deriellevc73

@deriellevc73 (982)

• Philippines

24 Nov 10

hello sammy14! I measure success by what a person had accomplished for himself, taking into consideration the effort he had put into the undertaking, the sacrifices he has to make and the satisfaction and happiness he is now enjoying because of that success. We cannot discredit a success for what it is, just because sacrifices were made, and destruction were rendered in the process of attaining the success. Literally, a success is a success if one has achieved his targeted goals. But to really measure success in its truest form, we do have to consider the ways and means of achieving it. That is taking in the big picture, not just the success itself, but the totality of the whole process. I could not really truthfully say that a person is successful, upon becoming famous, wealthy, in a position of power when he had lost his family in achieving such, when friends were betrayed trying to achieve such success, when children suffer because of wrecked marriages. Well, that's the way i see it.

sammy14

@sammy14 (834)

• Philippines

25 Nov 10

Thanks... I agree with you that having achieved your set goals is a success... and this is irrespective of whether it was done the right way or not... this is what you call collateral damage... but i would still go for achieving set goals by doing the right thing and not the other because it is the right thing! Savoring success through the right things is sweet....