What is your definition of success?  Is there something universal that we are all looking for in this life?
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is this too general? That success is to overcome something you been trying to overcome all or most of your life. Like what? plenty: Get out of debt, find lost family member, drug addictions, other addictions - gambling, sexual, drinking, bad mouthing, etc.; Forgiving someone you thought you never will, submission to someone or a higher authority like God Himself. Something that dogged you for what seem like eternity and you need to overcome. That's one definition of success 4 myself.
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I am successful by most standards.\nMy mother had little phrases on the fridge that I live by now, at 52.\n"A little shot is just a big shot that kept shooting"\n"Never ever ever ever give up."\n"Most people avoid opportunity because it comes dressed in overalls and looks like work."\n\nTo be successful, you have to be lucky.\nTo increase your chances of luck, work harder.\nEveryone wants to be a successful singer, athlete, artist, etc.\nI am a chemical engineer that has worked very hard all my life.\nNow, I have millions and very successful kids, wife and a great lifestyle.\nThere is no guarantee for success. But almost all successful people work hard.\n\nBest wishes.
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HARDWORK\n\nThats it....\n\nNothing Other than this can bring us SUCCESS sooner or later
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I'll take your interview but first I'd like to say that success is defined differently by everyone.  In my point of view, success has nothing to do with money.\n\n1.  I define success as being a state of mind.  I feel successful when my family is healthy and happy.  \n\n2.  Becoming successful is not as difficult as remaining successful.   First of all, you need a clear goal.  I feel that I became a successful person by working hard (be it school, work, volunteering, etc).  I never really did anything I didn't want to devote time and effort to, everything I did was done in order to attain a goal.  I remain successful by keeping my commitment to my goal and by continuing to work hard.  No matter how successful you may feel, success really just means you need continued work and commitment.  THAT'S what is difficult for most people.  Once they see a goal has been attained they forget that most things go just as easily as they come.  You have to continue to work hard to keep your success.\n\n3.  So far, I have my BS, MS and I'll be working on my PhD in the near future.\n\n4.  No...like I said, I'll be working on my PhD in the near future.  Once I get there I'll have achieved my goals.\n\n5.  Yes I am.  I have a healthy, happy family...I'm totally happy.\n\n6.  I'd first tell you that you need a road map.  You can't begin a journey without knowing where you're headed, right?  Why would you begin a "road to success" without knowing where you want to go?  Pick a goal for yourself, where you do envision yourself in ten to fifteen years?  Aim for it, research what you need, plan (short & long term) and go for it.\n\n7.  Sometimes, the road gets rough, real rough but you cannot give up, you have to keep going.  I found myself broke, married, pregnant and still in school when I was almost done with my BS.  I kept going, I had to if I was going to achieve my goal.  Somehow, I made it through.  If you really, really want it then that just means you have to be persistent, if you are, you'll persevere and get wherever it is you want to be.  I was once the type of child that everyone called "at risk" an immigrant ten year old, poor, and with no English.  Hey, if I can achieve what I have, anyone can!
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I am a success in the fact that I have survived as long as i have and created a value system for myself based on my beliefs and stick to it from a childhood that was rough.  I am working to attain the goals i have set for myself and doing a good job of it.  For me success has nothing to do with money or power but becoming the person I feel I should be.
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Are you talking about a dream I had, or a dream for my future?\n\nI would love to have forever happiness for me and my family.  However, I know that can't always be realistic.  People can't grow without some struggles in life...\n\nand the best dream I have ever had was to feel the people around me love me... unconditionally...\n\nI guess both of those answers are the same.  I never realized that until now...
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I am full of gratitude for my life.  I have more than I deserve.  When I imagine the true sorrow and deprivation that so many souls face on this earth I am filled with shame for even the thought of being ungrateful.  If however you mean by your question am I pleased with myself and satisfied that I am all that I should be?  The answer is NO!  I have much to aspire for.  Life is a journey.  I hope I continue to see the wonder of each step until the end.  Is my life perfect?  Hardly!  Does it offer challenges?  Yes, thank God.  Would I change some things if I could?  Sure.  But, I choose to work on those things that I can change, rather than waste my life worrying about the things I have no power over.
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Success in my believe and personal feeling is having accomplish my goals successfully and being content with the outcome. Having my family with the good and the bad but being with them and having their love. Being able to live and know that I'm doing all I can do and knowing that I will no matter what over come all obstables in my life.
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God tough question, I am waiting for something that I have yet to experience, I am looking for contentment, happiness, and a place where the sun never goes down.\nWhat are you waiting to feel? You have to start somewhere.
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Success is the ongoing process of becoming your best self.\n\n- Sally Hogshead, www.radicalcareering.com\n\nIn my opinion, you are successful if:\n\n1. you've found your talent or unique capability\n2. you feel alive and passionate in what you do\n3. your work or community involvement makes a difference and you feel you contribute to building a better world\n4. you earn a fair financial reward for your work \n\nExamples: Peter Jenning, John Paul II, Beatles, Bill Gates (in terms of improving the world, he does give away 50 million to help find the cure against malaria)
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GOOD ? !\ni believe that everything is already determined for us and that the things that we consider our choices have already been predetermined and that we are just living it out, thinking that we are making our minds up for our selves when in fact we are just following the steps on the map that will lead us to the final destination
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What do you mean no great goal to be achieved? Just living well is the goal.
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Achieve God?? What are you talking about??
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ACHIEVE...\nTHEN..ALL WOULD FOLLOW YOUR PERSONALITY.
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Success is when you have accomplished a personal goal or a job goal. Success is usually defined within one's self but most success is the feeling of being where you want to be.
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Geez........That depends.  My standard of success is that I am still faithful to my husband and he is to me.  With marriages heading for divorce every day, its a great accomplishment on our part.  Then there's where we came from.  e.g. Coming to a country and starting over from scratch.  I guess I could say that's success in it's self for me.
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Recognition, praise, encouragement, support, growth...those are just to name a few.  \n\nI know I am looking forward to looking for the door.....when I RETIRE!