Success

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There are as many ways in which to measure success as there are areas in life in which we desire to be successful.

Having a successful relationship may depend more on how well you are able to meet the (emotional) needs of the other person. Being a successful artist might be measured by where your art has been shown.
For many of us, at least part of our success is measured by to what extend we can live our life in the way we want to live it. For instance, if we really want to take that trip abroad every year, we could call ourselves successful if we have both the vacation time as well as the financial means to make it happen.

This also means that even when financial gain is not at the top of our list of priorities, in one way or another money comes into play when we are talking about success.

The ‘better job’ more often than not is the job with the better pay attached to it. Almost bringing us to apologize when our ‘better job’ has less pay ~ but way fewer hours ~ and before we know it, we hear ourselves argue that the pay per hour is better, but we finally found ourselves that job where we didn’t have to work as many hours.

In our society money is important ~ if only to pay the bills ~ and with that it becomes a factor in how we measure success. Consequently there are those that view people to whom money is not quite as important as less successful...

It can bring up a polarity in perspectives that seems to be very much of this day and age.

Where in the past monetary gain wasn’t a part measure of success, but rather the measure of success, socially as well as personally ~ in the energy of today there seems to be a much greater variety as to what part money plays in our sense of success.

And with that a lot of other yardsticks of success are coming to the surface...
Like ‘work ethic’, honesty, honor, health, service, family, and on and on.

And even when the same yardstick is used ~ success can be viewed from totally different perspectives! Take work ethic, for instance. For someone with a strong work ethic, being on social security may not feel like being successful at all. Where as a person with a different work ethic may consider himself very successful once on social security...

Ultimately success and the way we measure it is a very personal thing.
What makes (or can make) you successful?
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