What Do You Consider Success?

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I know this is a vague question, but I am really curious what everyone finds "success"

Is it when you make your first online sale?
Is it when you make your first profit?
Is it when you get your first payment?
Is it when you are steadily making income?
Is it when you quit your job?
Is it when you make $xxxxx profit?
etc?
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  • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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    I didn't have a job. For me, it was when I knew I'd be able (eventually) to earn enough from internet marketing to be able to make a living from it, and not to have to get a job when I graduated (because that was the reason I originally started the whole thing). So my benchmark was more or less "earning enough in one month". $3,000 in a month was "my magic number", then.

    I first earned "enough in a month" to get that impression in my 5th month (having earned nothing for the first 3 months and very little in the 4th), but even then it was another few months before I realised that the income was actually relatively stable and would probably continue to grow, if I kept on going.

    (When I first started, I did everything wrong that you can do wrong ).

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  • Profile picture of the author Chris Chicas
    For me success is being able to travel whenever I'd like to and most importantly than travel... take time off whenever I like. Sometimes there are important things to do in life other than work and it's good to have the ability to take time off work without getting strained with bills.
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    • Profile picture of the author discrat
      I think being able to do what you really have Passion for and not to have to answer to anyone is a great place to start.
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  • Profile picture of the author NatesMarketing
    I don't think I will ever have "success" - to where my life is complete and I can just die.

    Always going for the next/newest/biggest/funnest/fastest/etc thing...all of which encompasses micro-successes...but, I don't think I'll ever be like "man, I'm successful"
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    • Profile picture of the author Daniel Evans
      Originally Posted by NatesMarketing View Post

      I don't think I will ever have "success" - to where my life is complete and I can just die.

      Always going for the next/newest/biggest/funnest/fastest/etc thing...all of which encompasses micro-successes...but, I don't think I'll ever be like "man, I'm successful"
      If you're set on just dying, that's a cert!
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  • Profile picture of the author Brent Stangel
    but I am really curious what everyone finds "success"
    The only thing that matters is how you define success.

    Success for one might be complete failure for another.

    I personally define it as being able to do pretty much anything you want any time you want. (;
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  • Profile picture of the author vikash_kumar
    Ahh... For me (When it comes to Internet Marketing) ..It is when you are steadily making income?...Only with some passive income streams...Here passive means...Freedom of working at my own pace and time....

    I know, Its very near for me.....Will let you know for Sure!
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  • Profile picture of the author Mrnace
    every letter, punctuation mark and space in my blog, every single visitor to my site, every sale, every bit of the profit, everything that I've learnt, even from the failures.

    Its all a success.
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  • Profile picture of the author DWaters
    Success is in the journey, it is not necessarily an end result. But the ultimate success will be the day I can retire and concentrate on spending, investing and donating my money, not on making money.
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  • Profile picture of the author miklanderson2
    Success for me was making in one month what it had previously took me 6 months to make at my old job. While I feel like I'm somewhat successful now, I keep setting the bar higher and higher and probably won't ever be satisfied with what I'm making.
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  • Profile picture of the author cyberdenizen
    For me, success is growing into the size of your goals. You set small goals at first. When you have achieved them, you set even bigger goals. If you fail, you change your strategy and learn from your mistakes, and then you try again. You always try to stretch the limits of your abilities. Success is more about what you become as a result of trying to reach your goals whether you achieve them or not.
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  • Profile picture of the author travlinguy
    Health, Wealth and Love, not necessarily in that order.
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    • Profile picture of the author grantveronica
      This is a nice question. Been thinking about this too lately.

      For me, I know I'm successful when I learned something new. In this world, it's not enough that you're good at one thing. You have to do a lot of things to earn a lot too. It's learning that makes me feel achieved every time an information is inputted in my mind.
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  • Profile picture of the author Randall Magwood
    I defined my success by the amount of money i needed to stop working forever, and just chill and live by myself for 1 whole year. No women, kids, job, friends, nothing. I just wanted to take a hiatus and chill, and when i reached that goal... i felt good. I felt complete. And i started to feel happy about life again. I got my "zest" back.
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  • Profile picture of the author Horacioplus
    The feeling when you wake up in the morning and the first thing you see is sales notifications.
    That felling when you already made more than a regular person makes a day before you start your day.
    At the age of 21! That's Level 1
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  • Profile picture of the author Dennis Gaskill
    To laugh often and much;
    To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children;
    To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends;
    To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others;
    To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition;
    To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived.
    This is to have succeeded.
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    • Profile picture of the author Claude Whitacre
      Originally Posted by Dennis Gaskill View Post

      To laugh often and much;
      To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children;
      To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends;
      To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others;
      To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition;
      To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived.
      This is to have succeeded.
      - Bessie Stanley (often erroneously attributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson)
      Dennis; Of all the people here that I would like to meet. I think I'd like to meet you the most.


      Anyway, I'm assuming the question is about money.

      When I was bringing in (from my retail store alone) more money than I needed to pay all our bills, I knew we were on the right track.

      And the first month my speaking brought in $50,000 or more, I thought of myself as successful. And even though that has gone down, my self image hasn't changed.

      But really? When I wake up in the morning, to a wonderful woman who loves me, in a home that we are proud of, and I work in a business that takes almost no effort on my part......I feel pretty good.
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        • Profile picture of the author Claude Whitacre
          Originally Posted by Dennis Gaskill View Post

          Nice of you to say, Claude. Thanks. You'd probably wish you would have chosen someone else though. I'm just an old fuddy-duddy. My wife tells me I think too much. In other words, I'd probably bore you to tears.
          No you wouldn't. The single most important quality I admire is kindness, and you have that in spades. I like boring. I spend my evenings reading and writing. My wife does crafts and reads. Boring to tears.

          Sunday, I put out about 10 pounds of unsalted peanuts in the back yard. I spend off moments during the day, watching chipmunks and squirrels eat them, and scurry about.

          Excitement personified.
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          • Profile picture of the author lanfear63
            Originally Posted by Claude Whitacre View Post

            No you wouldn't. The single most important quality I admire is kindness, and you have that in spades. I like boring. I spend my evenings reading and writing. My wife does crafts and reads. Boring to tears.

            Sunday, I put out about 10 pounds of unsalted peanuts in the back yard. I spend off moments during the day, watching chipmunks and squirrels eat them, and scurry about.

            Excitement personified.
            I can picture you doing this. Sitting on the window sill, inside the net curtains. Your unshaven furry face darting back and forth watching them. I knew you were a cat person.

            I have one of your novels you wrote under a pen name..

            The Cat Fights Back by Claude Balls
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            • Profile picture of the author Steven Wagenheim
              Waking up in the morning with a roof over your head, food in your stomach and your health.

              Everything else is just window dressing.
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              • Profile picture of the author Richard Van
                Originally Posted by Steven Wagenheim View Post

                Waking up in the morning with a roof over your head, food in your stomach and your health.
                For me it's just managing to get out of bed on Monday morning, if I can do that I can do anything.

                I once went 4 pints without going to the toilet too.

                Oh and Claude thanked one of my posts once, though I 'd copy and pasted one of Dan's old ones to make me look clever.
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                • Profile picture of the author Dan Riffle
                  Originally Posted by Richard Van View Post

                  Oh and Claude thanked one of my posts once, though I 'd copy and pasted one of Dan's old ones to make me look clever.
                  That's like kicking yourself in the nuts to make yourself look smart.
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    • Profile picture of the author MissTerraK
      Originally Posted by Dennis Gaskill View Post

      To laugh often and much;
      To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children;
      To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends;
      To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others;
      To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition;
      To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived.
      This is to have succeeded.
      - Bessie Stanley (often erroneously attributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson)
      That's beautiful, Dennis.

      That about covers how I feel regarding success in life. Those truly are the things that matter most, however, when it comes to being successful at smaller endeavors along the way that I attempt, I like to see it this way.

      See your goal
      Understand the obstacles
      Clear your mind of doubt
      Create a positive mental picture
      Embrace the challenges
      Stay on task
      Show the world you can do it


      P.S. And that's exactly what I have done and now we get to buy a new house that I'm not allergic to! Hurray!!


      Terra
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  • Profile picture of the author hardraysnight
    success to me is being able to spell it suckcess and no one has the intestinal fortitude to tell me i am wrong
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  • Profile picture of the author NeedBucksNow
    I'de say success is when you have your website traffic on autopilot and you are making sales regardless of what you are doing. It's an awesome feeling when you wake up and find out you've made sales while you are sleeping at night.
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  • Profile picture of the author Dennis Gaskill
    Dad-gum it, Claude. I'd hoped I deleted that post before you saw it. It was an honest reaction, but then I thought it might put you on the spot to defend your comment, and I didn't want to do that. You have a quick quote finger!
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  • Profile picture of the author Muhammaduf
    I think "Success" is your inner satisfaction! When you're satisfied with your work or your doings what you're doing for getting success in your life...
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  • Profile picture of the author Tedel
    Originally Posted by ChrisBa View Post

    I know this is a vague question, but I am really curious what everyone finds "success"

    Is it when you make your first online sale?
    Is it when you make your first profit?
    Is it when you get your first payment?
    Is it when you are steadily making income?
    Is it when you quit your job?
    Is it when you make profit?
    etc?
    I feel successful when I do something for someone else, and he smiles upon seeing the result, or give me one of those thank you's which obviously comes from the heart.

    Besides that, I feel successful if I have enough money to eat everyday, put on some clean clothes on and still have some free time to spend with a friend.

    Yes, you can call me old-fashioned if you like.
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    Being able to say "yes" to what you want to do and "no" to what you don't want to do.
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  • Profile picture of the author HeySal
    I'm another one who doesn't measure success in numbers. Success is having freedom to do as you please when you please to do it -- and being comfortable and happy in your own skin. One you have those things, there isn't much else that you truly need or will probably desire that you can't or don't already have.
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  • Profile picture of the author Kurt
    Success is when you have the perfect ratio of dip and chips, so that there's exactly enough dip left for the last potato chip.
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  • Profile picture of the author Vixoma
    I find that success is when you try to accomplish something that is really hard at first and you just stick to it and finally you get to that point where you say 'It was worth the time'

    Health, Family, Money and also the ability to travel around the world and in the same time seeing money coming in to your accounts. That is just amazing!
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  • Profile picture of the author Amanda786
    Hi
    I think success is about having a continuous source of income even if we lose job there is still a way we can get money. I am talking about a private business I believe no matter where your doing a job there must be a secondary source of income.
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  • Profile picture of the author bizgrower
    Having health and time freedom. Being 54, I see people younger and older who have health issues
    and I am especially grateful to feel as fit as ever.

    Another aspect of success is when we get good reviews online or offline, gifts, or thank you cards... for what we do.

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  • Profile picture of the author ElizaSmith
    I couldn't put it better than Rudyard Kipling.

    IF

    If you can keep your head when all about you
    Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
    If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
    But make allowance for their doubting too;
    If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
    Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
    Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,
    And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:

    If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;
    If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim;
    If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
    And treat those two impostors just the same;
    If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
    Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
    Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
    And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools:

    If you can make one heap of all your winnings
    And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
    And lose, and start again at your beginnings
    And never breathe a word about your loss;
    If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
    To serve your turn long after they are gone,
    And so hold on when there is nothing in you
    Except the Will which says to them: “Hold on!”

    If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
    Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch,
    If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
    If all men count with you, but none too much;
    If you can fill the unforgiving minute
    With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
    Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
    And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son.
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    how to do nothing with nobody all by yourself forever
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  • Profile picture of the author mark healy
    Success is the ongoing process to become much more. Its a road always under construction not an end goal to reach.
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