What is your definition of success?

My definition of success is simply accomplishing a goal. Accomplishment is fulfilling to me because it is progress.

A lot of people view having wealth as success or a reason to idolize people but, I don't. I think it is whatever makes us happy, which is why people say that money doesn't buy happiness. It is having an inner peace for me.

A peace of mind is being happy with who you are and having healthy relationships with the people around you. Knowing how to deal with conflict and just manage your life in a way that yields a positive flow of energy all around you. Life doesn't have to be perfect. The imperfections are what make it interesting.

It is a matter of knowing how to survive and thrive!

For me it is financial and time freedom. Being able to do what I want whenever I want, where ever I want.

(jeff this is not a personal attack on you just a dissagreement with this basic concept )

well maybe this is part of the problem why success is so hard to define ..

using a model built on the probability of failure ..

now there is the forest gump path to success..which may work for some people .

and there may be people who aim for a million dollars ..but only really want 100k .. and so they can still be happy if they fall short of the 1 million but get the 100k ..

i mean would you tell someone who wanted to go from boston to Las vega.. to aim for getting to tokyo or moscow

one of the things that makes goal setting highly valuable..is the setting of goals that can be attained and passed ..

a year ago it became very important for me to lose weight .. being 5 foot 6 and 250 plus pounds at 36 ..

thing is i didn't get fat over night .. it was over a period of 5-6 years and as bad eating habbits caught up .. ..i tell people i didn't hit 30 ..30 hit me ..

anyway .. i'm on a long term plan to change eating habits .. and other patterns.. and i'm down to 220 know ..and i have far more tone in my muscle and bulkier muscles than any time in my life ..

in the next few months i plan to move to another part of the country .. and by this time next year i want to be eating lots of fresh veg from my own garden and be down below 200 pounds ..

right now i have no debt and no saving but a good chunk of money coming in ..and might just go somewhere i can buy a crappy little fixer upper house for under 10 grand ,, it might not be that nice ..but it will beat paying rent ..and my main goal right now is having some place a can grow a good chunk of my own food ..at least the greens and other veg .

as i learn to grow my own food i want to shit to small plot farming or backyard farming ..so buy fixxer upper homes ..with good sized yard which i use to grow food an sell..and fix the houses up to rent them out ..and earn equity from the increased value of the homes income from the rents..and selling what i can grow in the yards..

then maybe get in the info marketing or internet marketing realm ..coaching people interested in doing similar things ..

if you set your goals to small ..and hit them..the thing to do is set new bigger ones that you achieve.. then set bigger goals ..

yes there is the fact we greatly underestimate our worth and potential..

but long term success is build on learning what you are capable of then gradually increasing your capabilities ..

in the real world if you you owned a company .. and put out overly ambitious income targets ..that eventually fall far short .. even if they are improvement on past income..a lot of people wil not be happy and you could end up in jail or at least out of a job .

success is having a vision for your life and creating something as close to that as possible..unless of course along the way your vision expand and you see a way to creat something much better

Paul, I dig your definition Happiness, health and wealth all embody a freeing lifestyle. If you're happy, the health and wealth can fall in line because you'll vibe so freaking high that it'll be impossible to become sick and broke. I suggest everybody reading this fab thread to investigate their intent: get super clear on IDing your driver so that you can shift it if you need to shift it.

You'll always get what you most value. Shift those values if you want different "gettings"

Ryan