What is success?

I will have succeeded when I am happy with life, unfortunately as money is one of the things which makes me happy, well........
 
I personally think I'm living the dream. Married to an amazing wife, two sons, 1 and 3, earn just above the natonal average but only work 6 hours a day, enjoy my job and get to spend loads of time with my family, plenty of holidays, life is good :D
 
For me success is being with a family that I love and being loved, being healthy, having enough money to do what I and the family want and a lifestyle that I enjoy.

I'm not quite there yet. But I will be. As I get older my priorities are changing but so is the need inside me to get what I want.

cainer said:
ahh but what kind of raver were you? did you stack the shelfs or size fish? or maybe you liked to show the difference between big box & little box? :p
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Another old raver also reporting in. Big box little box haha! Great times.
 
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Personally, I have no idea. I don't know what success is, but I know I haven't achieved it yet.
 
Success to me involves many things. Contentment with life, acceptance of yourself and your path through life and ability to care for the ones you care about. But in a nutshell I remember being 16 and my friend bringing a Doors CD around to my house. I absolutely loved it and the one thing that really stuck with me was "Did you have a good world when you died? Enough to base a movie on?"

I think that is pretty apt. At times in my life I have financially struggled at other times I've been affluent. At times I have been in hell and at other times I have been in heaven. At times I have been kind of lost at what to do and other times quite clear. But through it all it has been interesting.

I loved seeing my grandad as a kid he had all these wonderful things to tell me about the places he had been and the things he had seen. I look forward to doing the same. Success is what you measure it as I guess. For me I measure it by actually living life, actively participating in life and experiencing it. Money doesn't really come into it to be honest.
 
Having a passive six figure income, then I can spend the time and money on things I enjoy and more importantly help those that need the money/time.

I hear that money changes peoples views and attitudes and they can start to become greedy but I really do want to be financially comfortable so I can donate more to charities, food banks and shelters.
 
For me my successful time was being financially secure and having good work / life balance.

Wasn't earing mega bucks but had nice flat, went out 4+ nights a week and only worked 3 days. Had enough money to buy most things I wanted without worrying.

Earn much more now but balance is way off.
 
To be fair, although I posted in the other thread (not quite the target income, but just a bit of input early on) I actually spend as if I was living on a £15k wage - I'm in a rented house share, have a £900 car and shop at Iceland.

To me success will simply be to live without financial hardship and have a good family / home life, although as women are a total nightmare the last one isn't too easy. :p

My aim is to simply own a house without a mortgage, and when that happens I'll be as happy as anything. Paying rent really annoys me, for some reason.
I literally save every penny I don't have to spend.
 
Since thatcher people have grown up with greed is good mantra, sell your own mother if you have to, to make a quid. Society is broken it's all about who has the most money.

Ocuk looks down on people who don't earn six figures, someone actually said to me in a Thread I must be "unskilled" coz our joint income is only £69k wtf, when the truth is we are both happy and degree educated, we just care for people rather than sell them
 
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