I think becoming a success is a choice. I have known many people who chose to live on the streets under a bridge. It was their choice. They had a lot going for them and could do a lot to improve their lives, but chose not to. It's all in how you choose to see your life. Do you see the glass half full or half empty?

Success is measured differently for everyone.

Happiness is a a choice. Most people become a "victim" of there own lives. Once people realize there is a moment between stimulus and response they know they can react to any situation how they choose.

Taking control of your mind is a powerful thing and you can be successful when you learn this. Remember this formula in this order

Your thoughts lead to your feelings lead to your actions lead to your RESULTS.

Whatever the mind can conceive and believe the mind can achieve.

I recommend "Think and grow rich" by Napoleon Hill...changed my life and im more successful then i've ever been.

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Success is a MIND SET and an EXPECTATION in my opinion Ryan.

We tend to move toward our dominant expectation. If we expect to be lucky, we will be. If we expect to succeed, we will. If we expect to fail, we'll fail.

Everything in life is a choice, except death and taxes.

You have the choice to drive for success. You may fail but eventually you will succeed. If you float through life waiting for success to happen, you may be waiting a long while.

Yes i think getting successful is a choice and is achieved by making relevant right choices of actions, which would lead you to your objective of success.

Yes success is a choice...

But it does not happen by accidents. Luck is when preparedness meets opportunity. Just as with luck, success is not a destination, but a path. Success is never measured when arriving at a goal... If it were so, what then?

Success is to me to make a conscious effort to reach a specific goal while overcoming challenges. Or in other words BECOMING.. As soon as I get there success it to create new goals to BECOME.

Michael

I think everyone is saying more or less the same thing and, for the most part, I agree with them. Happiness and success are very ambiguous terms. It's nearly imposible to pin them down, let alone understand them. We know when we feel successful or happy, but knowing why and how you reached that state of existence can be very tricky to figure out.

I think the main question here is not whether it's obtainable through choice, since most of us are of the same mindset already and believe it is absolutely a question of choice. IE: You're not going to find lasting happiness or success unless you decide to seek it. It won't fall into your lap and then stay there unless you actively desire it.

The main question for me is, how do we decide to understand it, seek it, and ultimately obtain it. Actually, obtaining it is a bit too materialistic. It might be better to refer to ethereal things like this as cultivating them.

I believe these states of existence are cultivated mind sets that need to be patiently and consciously beheld. Success isn't a certain vague moment in the future when your bank statement hits $10,000,000, or when you sign the lease to a F1 race car. It's a specific single moment that only exists in the present. In the vein of Eckhart Tolle's writings, success is born in the now. It's a state of mind, and not an external circumstance.

Yes, yes I know some people think this is all the wishy washy talk of some half-believer in alternative thinking, or whatever. I can't make you think this way, and I'm definitely not attempting to undermine your thinking or to convince you in anyway. I just wanted to share my beliefs with you. And, even though I don't always live by these beliefs, as I, like anyone, get swept up in daily life and immodest mind frames, I still believe these kinds of things to the core of myself and treat everyday a new opportunity to express these beliefs through my everyday actions.

On a final note, I think it should be mentioned that success and happiness are not static affairs. They are definitely dynamic and creative processes that manifest everyday in our desire to lead full and rich lives for ourselves and for our loved ones.

This is something I've given hundreds of hours of thought to actually.

Well I think that all success and happiness IS COMPLETELY AT AN INDIVIDUAL LEVEL.

The goal in materialistic success is to identify a goal and then hit it...for some people making $1 is huge for others 1 Million isn't enough...it's all personal.

As far as happiness goes...happiness can't be obtained or found...no amount of seeking can bring you what you want....Happiness is found when we appreciate, accept and love ourselves, others, and the world as it is...to cherish the things you have now rather than to want the things you don't have...

My personal view of success is simple down at the core: It's to live in harmony.

To get more specific...I don't want money to be an issue in my life...for that reason I've established my materialistic goal at 10Mil in 2 years while working max 8 hours a day...my goal is by the end of 2 years to have my 10Mil business running on complete auto-pilot.

This leaves room for self improvement and to ultimately discover the happiness that's locked away inside of me....I want to be able to travel anywhere and everywhere and to do what I want...

Then I'm going to teach all of this to others...settle down and have a happy and fulfilling life with a loving family...

That's my idea of a successful life but once again it's completely personal...we all have our own personal ideals in life and it's always best to find yours.

And just a little hint for everyone...success and happiness are in fact the same thing at the core...what it comes down to is why do we want to be successful? To be happy of course...the trick is happiness can never be attained through pure materialistic wealth...

I use material wealth as a gateway for personal freedom...to be able to help others build and grow businesses while I focus on myself and do the things I want with my life is my success.

Aaryn

Happiness is a choice?

Tell that to the guy who got beaten up by his dad and put down his whole childhood

Tell that to the girl who got raped by her father

Tell that to the guy who lost his leg in a car accident that his friends stupidity caused.

Tell that to the guy who is blind or had some health disability.


Not everyone has a choice, sure everyone has problems but some peoples are too big for them to handle.....is it their fault they get screwed up in life?

Maybe some will say yes its their fault since they didnt choose to help themselves.

But its a lot easier for people to say "Do this and do that to fix it" without being that person and feeling their pain.

Most people don't fail at internet marketing, they just quit before they succeed.

You only get one life guys and girls. No matter what happens in it, you have to move forward and make the best of what you have left.

All aspects of your life are your choice. Yes as stated, bad things will happen even to good people. I think we all know that by now, but has that stopped everyone? No way. There are hugely successful people that have had horrible things happen. They didn't give up and they didn't let themselves lose because of what's happened to them.

Success is a choice. Happiness is a choice. Yet, so is depression, failure, and torment.

Those that are truely happy have learned how to turn those horrible things into lessons and life changing moments. They use the power of the human mind to fight through it. It's going to be harder for some then others.

The only way you will ever lose is if you give up.

Never give up.

Travis

Success is a moment by moment choice.

The process is: choose your thoughts. These thoughts generate feelings. These feelings move you into action. The actions bring results. It's a 4 step process with the genesis being the thoughts which you choose.

Take what you're doing right now. If you're an online entrepreneur you could be choosing to laze out on a Saturday morning or scouring the forums for more knowledge to put into action immediately. Your choice. I was up at 6:40 AM and hitting twitter, Facebook, and making the rounds on work at home forums after being up until 1:30AM last night. It would have been easy to sleep in but I made a choice. Keep in mind that it wasn't a tough choice because I love what I do. Now the meditation which I just finished up with was a more difficult choice because it requires serious discipline to sit when your energy is high but I used my willpower to relax and sit for 20 minutes. Another choice which I made because I strive to be more successful. I could have chosen to work, watch TV, or go back to bed but experience has taught me the more time I devote to personal development the more I enjoy life and the more successful I become.

You choose to be successful or not by selecting which thoughts to think on a moment by moment basis. There is nothing outside of you which has any bearing over your thinking; thinking is 100% on you.

This is why it's vital to fill your mind with uplifting thoughts and leave the negative thoughts behind. The more enthusiasm you choose to experience the more successful you become if your thoughts are guided to a definite major purpose. Successful living is a matter of developing a success consciousness. Study the leaders of industry and masters in their respective fields to verify it. Man is mind and his lot in life is the product of his selected thoughts.

As for success I believe it's being happy first and then doing whatever you love to do for a living while being paid handsomely. Since we choose our lives I don't see the need to have to suffer through financial hardships, stress, or strain when you can choose success and abundance and manifest these things over time.

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Success is a choice, but there are some efforts to do to achieve it.

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I think success is to some extent a choice, it takes perseverance and persistence to obtain. If you *choose* to give up you will not achieve success.

I absolutely agree that success is a choice. You make a decision to be successful and you work towards it.

I don't think that success is a choice. All of us are in this and any business to be successful. So I would say success is the result of hard work putting together a solid product backed by a solid marketing program and all the other elements that make a business successful.

Success ('achievement') is based on performance.

Performance is based on types of action

We are always 'acting' in whatever we do. (thinking, sitting down, watching tv ...) and there is a reaction....so it boils down to what kind of action you are taking.

If you decide to take the type of action that will give you the 'achievement' you desire then you have made a choice.

Thus success is a choice.

To your success,
Chucks

I would agree DA, let's not wait...get success while its hot! LOL great video too!

Absolutely. As with Happiness, Income you make, people you associate with.

Life unfolds with the choices we make

Success is the progressive realization of a worthwhile dream. Yes, it is most definitely a choice to take steps towards that dream! :-)

I look at this way...

Success will take care of itself. Do the work and success will follow.

Be honest with yourself about what you love to do. Then, do it with every piece of energy you've got. Hold nothing back.

You may "succeed". You may not.

Either way, you can take great pride in knowing you did your best and THAT is all that matters.

Just sayin...

Yes it is a choice, if you believe. You can choose to be successful at anything you want if you truly believe you can be, But if deep down inside you don't think you can be successful, or if you are scared of what success might bring, you won't be successful.....

It depends on the feeling we got. If we allow ourself to feel sucess, then we are success. We are all wanting to have the feeling at the end. why don't you feel success now and get on with life? If you have the empowering success feeling, you will get to a differnet status and things could be very different.

It's a choice but not a one-time "okay now I'm choosing to be successful once and for all" kind of choice. It's the accumulation of minute-by-minute success choices.

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Definitely, its a decision you get to make on your own whether or not you want to succeed in something or just waste an opportunity and let it pass away.

I think success is a choice. We don't just wake up one morning and find success next to our cereal. I think achieving success is a process. With each progressive step we make we hit our set targets. We have to work for it. It does not always come easy.

Everything start in your mind, happiness, success etc.

A habit...I like that. Its the same concept as losing weight. You can't just diet, you have to make a commitment to make lifestyle change. Well put!

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.

For me, being successful depends on how one person defines being successful...One can say financial freedom is a sure success to anyone...but, if they aren't still happy and contented with what they are having that couldn't be categorized as success...Probably, the ultimate definition of being successful or meeting the success of your life is when the day comes you wake up and you feel you are complete and contented and has no worries on the side...



Best regards,
Bob

Success and happiness are choices. We can choose to pursue friendships and relationships that make us happy and we can choose to see things in a positive light. Likewise, we can choose to take the actions and take on the beliefs that will make us successful, or we can choose to wallow in self-pity and limiting beliefs that were programmed into us from social conditioning.

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I do think success is choice which everybody's decision. all inspiring books and mindset guides cannot be out of nothing. the one who wrote all those stories were once desperate without money or anything and they made things come true, I am sure if they didn't really suffer in becoming successful they just wouldn't care at all writing a price of inspiring paper for you!