How Do You Define Success?

jjscholar
jjscholar Posts: 413 Member
in Success Stories
Hey everyone,

How do you define success? I have to admit that I am not sure how I would answer this question...

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  • stumblinthrulife
    stumblinthrulife Posts: 2,558 Member
    Success is when reality coincides with your goals.
  • jonnythan
    jonnythan Posts: 10,161 Member
    Success is when you crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentation of their women
  • AZ_Gato
    AZ_Gato Posts: 1,270 Member
    Success is when you crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentation of their women

    Yeah pretty much this.
  • highervibes
    highervibes Posts: 2,219 Member
    Success is when reality coincides with your goals.

    perfect. Totally agree.
  • stumblinthrulife
    stumblinthrulife Posts: 2,558 Member
    Success is when you crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentation of their women

    Thank you Conan.
  • chels0722
    chels0722 Posts: 465 Member
    Being happy with the "right here" and "right now" = success
  • carrieous
    carrieous Posts: 1,024 Member
    setting goals and working to achieve them
  • dsjohndrow
    dsjohndrow Posts: 1,820 Member
    Do you mean health success, human success, or living a purposeful life?

    If it is health, it's being at a healthy weight, having good blood work and sustainable habits for life.

    All the rest? It takes faith and a man and woman will not agree. ;)
  • jonnythan
    jonnythan Posts: 10,161 Member
    Success is when you crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentation of their women

    Thank you Conan.

    For us there is no spring.
  • kimanne4
    kimanne4 Posts: 52 Member
    Success is a daily thing for me. If I stay within my limit for the day that's success to me. Losing a tenth of a pound is success to me. Success, as life, is a journey not a destination. That's my intellectual answer....my smart alack answer is exes thinking "dang I'm an idiot!" hahaha
  • Warchortle
    Warchortle Posts: 2,197 Member
    Success is self happiness
  • Appletree5
    Appletree5 Posts: 18
    How well I feel :smile:
  • ShreddedTweet
    ShreddedTweet Posts: 1,326 Member
    Roof over my head, food in my fridge, me and mine all healthy and happy. Nothing else matters, genuinely, nothing else.
  • eazy_
    eazy_ Posts: 516 Member
    progress towards what I want
  • ShaktiB
    ShaktiB Posts: 17
    Setting measurable and attainable goals and achieving them !!!
  • ktliu
    ktliu Posts: 334 Member
    Depend on your goals. So like me, as an architect, I have to chase after the most prestigious jobs.
    All depended on your front of attack. Home, Career, Relationship. Sex. ability to eat large amount of food. (Adam in Man vs. Food)

    If you want them all, sure, it's all a balancing act call life.
  • verptwerp
    verptwerp Posts: 3,628 Member
    when you never, ever give up trying to achieve your goals :drinker:
  • FromHereOnOut
    FromHereOnOut Posts: 3,237 Member
    Success: Making a decision, and then making it happen.

    You can be "successful" everyday, if you set your goals (the "decision" part of the equation) properly. But if you set your goals too far into the future, you go for a very long time without ~feeling~ "successful", which can lead to giving up.

    Make a decision about TODAY that will lead to what you want in life and then make it happen. For this, you will be "Successful" TODAY. Tomorrow: rinse and repeat. Etc.
  • Jellif1sh
    Jellif1sh Posts: 27 Member
    Success is reflecting on all aspects of your life, including your family, health, career, and home, and thinking how lucky you are to be where you are.

    Also, squatting more than the frat boys at my gym is pretty cool, too.
  • Chieflrg
    Chieflrg Posts: 9,097 Member
    Success has much to do with never quitting no matter how many mistakes I may or may not make.
  • Ldycateyes
    Ldycateyes Posts: 1
    Success--simply never giving up

    Take it one day at a time. Never let anyone undermine your efforts. Never let someones oppinion of you become your reality.
    Love yourself, love life and Thank God everyday for all your blessings.:smile:
  • dixiewhiskey
    dixiewhiskey Posts: 3,333 Member
    To me, success is many things.

    Success is achieving your goals, self-reflection, beating the odds, never giving up, never letting others determine who you are. Success is believing in YOU
  • likitisplit
    likitisplit Posts: 9,420 Member
    Doing the best I can with what I have.
  • jackieof2
    jackieof2 Posts: 3
    Success = Helping, encouraging and building someone up. (We cannot be lifted until we've lowered ourselves to raise someone else up)
  • ThatSoundsHard
    ThatSoundsHard Posts: 475 Member
    That's a broad question.
    In terms of my fitness and weight loss goals goes. Success is not eating all the cookies/chocolate. Success is more reps, a heavier lift, a deeper squat, more jumping jacks or holding a yoga pose that I couldn't yesteray. I feel successful every time I get better.
  • Dominantia
    Dominantia Posts: 18
    success is when we achieve our goals, maybe not everyone but some which make us feel better about ourselves and proud so when we look back we see how much we went through and still didn't give up. Every little thing that was achieved is success.
  • sandi117
    sandi117 Posts: 445 Member
    Success is every step forward towards a goal, and ultimately achieving your goal. On here, success is every pound, ounce, and inch lost. Success is enjoying this difficult journey and learning to love yourself.
  • mzjessicaxo
    mzjessicaxo Posts: 330 Member
    “Success is not measured by the position one has reached in life, rather by the obstacles one overcomes while trying to succeed”

    This speaks to me!
  • nolachick
    nolachick Posts: 3,278 Member
    Success is when reality coincides with your goals.

    I like this!

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