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How else is success measured besides just financial?

I remember having a friend say success isn't only or just measured in financial. What did he mean by that? How else can success be mesured then?

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1. Success in life is measured by happiness. There are more important things in life than money. You have to evaluate what is it that makes you happy in the long run. Having a $200,000 annual income but no relationships with family/friends can be depressing.
2. Hi there, Success is a very personal and individual achievement. You could examine the life of any other person, and pinpoint successes in their lives. If they could write, they could write about success. Those successes may be beyond the vision of somebody who is arrogant and judges people by their level of conspicuous wealth. However, those little successes in that person's life may be of relative importance to that person, whether a child, teenager or adult, and also to their family and friends. Success is always relative, and can relate to just about any aspect of human existence. Nobody should just be dismissed as unsuccessful by others. An individual can, of course, be unsuccessful in a particular endeavor. Even so, if they set out on that endeavor at all, then they are more "successful" than somebody who never found the motivation to do so, even though they want to. When considering your own success it is worth bearing in mind a dictionary definition, just to help keep it in perspective success is "An event that accomplishes its intended purpose". That is really all it is it does not have to be about conspicuous wealth, nor does it have to be highly public. The most obvious successes are, of course, visible in public and can often be accompanied by conspicuous wealth. However, you will usually find those successes have been preceded by a lot of smaller and less obvious successes, and failures as well, all of which were essential to that ultimate and big success that everyone sees today. A famous and successful musician, for example, may have had their first success in mastering their first tune on a guitar. It was an essential success, but small and insignificant at the time. That same musician may have had their first public performance, when everything went wrong and the audience booed, and been dismissed by those present as a failure. Yet, it was an important step to their ultimate success. Long term success in anything depends on a series of steps, each of which has to be taken to get to the ultimate destination. Each step can be its own little success, or sometimes a failure that sparks the greater effort that leads to ultimate success. Each is as important as the other. Hope I was able to answer your question. Regards, Steve