Why does everyone want to be successful?

Why would you want to define it any way? To me, it's the Freedom. But you won't fine that out until you make a lot of money. At some point, you will develop your expertise and than you'll learn to focus on that. Thus, you can outsource everything else.

One thing that is clear and logical, when you have a successful business you will connect with people like yourself. That's called the *Universal Mind*. We all are just identical, but it's our belief system that separates us.

Lastly, we essentially fall into two categories, either you are self-employed or you are not!


Jimmy.

There's actually 6 areas of "happiness" or "success" that people want...

..and that is:

Health/appearance
Relationships
Your occupation or work
Finances/wealth
Personal/spiritual Development

I don't have my list in front of me, so I can't remember the rest, but that should give people a head start(they should be right ). (hint: these 6 areas of happiness are also a good place to start a horizontal niche).

Success to me can be summed up in one word (or sentence).

Evolve.. Success to me is to evolve in the 6 areas of happiness that all humans want to feel "complete"

There is no one answer to happiness.. It includes multiple areas and they must be fulfilled- to be at your pinnacle level...


How is having 0 dollars (or negative like most people) considered success?

Just helping people and having good character is far from success.

Fulfilling? Yes, but successful?

Think about this...

If you like to serve others (profit or non profit) then do you think you could do more with being wealthy (say like warren buffet donating 25 billion)(or bill gates donating most of his money to charity when he leaves)? Or do you think you could do more by being poor or in debt, like you suggest?

All things being equal- you are way better off having money and freedom than not. For the betterment of yourself, of others, and humanity in general.

Having character, vision, and serving others is the foundation, but the more money you have, the more freedom, the more options, and the more you can share with others!! Don't think of money as paper- money is FREEDOM. How can you be successful, if you don't have freedom or opinions? I may be wrong, but I think most people want freedom and optinons...

Please don't exclude money from happiness, because it keeps a roof over your head and food in your stomach-something that a lot of the world population is dying from... Feel lucky that you have money, a roof over your head, and food in your stomach, because many don't have even the basic necessities in life.

"you will always be successful no matter how much money you have."

Go head and tell this to the starving and dying children in the world. If I were in there position- I would be offended by someone that is rich in comparison saying something so naive.

They would agree, money IS important.. For survival- and happiness...

To me, success means freedom, to do what I want and when to do

some said money means time, time means freedom

The more I have, the more I can give away.

Very well said. I agree that some success is measured by money which allows you to give to other as much as you want and it allows you to have the freedom to spend time with your loved ones, travel and see all the splendor this planet has to offer, etc. And as mentioned there are other areas of success, such as health, relationships, etc that can be measured separately.

Success is freedom and choice to live your life as you want. Whilst happiness definitely doesn't depend on money, lack of money limits your choices. It's also a lot easier to help other people once you have a certain level of money.

Wealth does not just happen. It needs plenty of sacrifice and hard work. Look around and see how people behave in different circumstances. Pay attention to how they talk, walk and react to circumstances and other people. Notice also people's reaction to them. The key to self improvement is in knowing who you really are, how you would want to be and what you really want.

We want to be successful because all of us realize at some point that life is so short that we should really make the best of it; meaning spend time with the people we love and do the things we like; and to do that we need some money to have the freedom to choose what we want to do.

Dagmar

Success to me is having more time to share the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

My motivation to be successful is freedom. I would love to wake up in the morning and not have to rush my daughter of to day care and not see her again until 8pm that night. I would love not having to plan my time to pursue my various hobbies around my work schedule. I would love to have the financial freedom to not have to constantly worry about money and bills.

Money is a big part of my motivation, but what is the biggest part of it is the freedom that comes with having enough money to live life as I please.

Interesting question. Why do we work everyday? Why do I wake up every morning? These are some of the questions that you realize at the end of the day, right before you lay your head on your pillow. Or, when you take - or find - the necessary time to pause.

But why do we do all these things when we can stay at home, be with our families, and just take life as it is? For me, because we know better. We know the difference between what is good or otherwise. We know that each action will lead somewhere. And, because we are given options - choices. And we use it because we want to be better. This is why we want to become successful, in whatever sense we take the word 'success' for.