What is your definition of successful in life?

[Whatsrightnow]

Is it a homeowner
Business owner
Millionaire
Parents

None. Just realising happiness is a choice.

Fulfilment

I think a successful life is to be happy with what you have.

Being happy and content. Feeling and being healthy. Having a happy child and family.

Not sure, as we always want more and more regardless of what we already have.

Being a successful person also includes one’s character and mannerism.

I would agree that it's about happiness. If you are content with where you are, who you are and happy with what you have.... then you are a winner.

Being able to live in the world comfortably, taking advantage of the adventures which come your way and enjoying the ride.

Completely agree with everyone else - happiness, or even contentment.

I think successful relates to career, finances.

But contentment is much broader and much more important.

Happy and financially stable.

Happy, content and fulfilled. It's a feeling rather than a physical thing like property, e.g.

Not worried about other people, but to consider myself successful:
Happy marriage or long term partner
Kids who are happily finding their own paths in life
Job I find interesting and feel that I am good at

Being happy and content. Can’t be bought or taken away, and can belong to anyone.

None of those things.

To me being successful is enjoying life, overcoming adversary, living in a way that is best for you and not other people, treating others with kindness.

Being loved and respected by my familiy.

I don't necessarily agree with happiness and healthiness. Depression and cancer for example aren't marks of being "unsuccessful."

Being a good and happy parent / wife/ friend / daughter person

giving to those in need - sharing my fortune

lying on my death bed surrounded by my loved ones knowing I did all I could and no regrets

To me success implies you've achieved something. I have a happy marriage and lovely, healthy children but I don't regard those as successes. I consider myself very fortunate, and also fortunate that I am able to appreciate that good fortune.

I would say I've been moderately successful at work, because I've had to work at that. There's less luck (not none, far from it), and it's less fundamental to my overall happiness.

Success is ultimately not that important.

Exactly.

Being happy. For some people that's easier than for others though. Unfortunately for me that means a happy family, a happy relationship, a successful career, a home I love, financial independence, etc. Luckily, while it took me years, I got there. But that doesn't mean I'm any happier than someone in a tent, who travels the world, and is happy that way. Happiness probably means something different to everyone. But I am pretty sure that success + happiness for most.

Success relates to achieving goals so whatever your personal goals you set for yourself.
Some people might choose a career and owning a home, others to be a millionaire, others may have more simpler goals.

Feeling secure.

Well I have a chronic illness which has gone crazy at the moment and it does get in the way of living successfully by my own definition of what that looks like. More power to you if you can be live peacefully while your body is failing but that's beyond me.

Happy and able to cope. Somebody once defined wisdom as the ability to cope, and I have never forgotten that. Of course, what helps one person cope doesn’t help another. But I’d say a successful person has found a way of navigating though life so that they’re OK. They are happy, at peace with the past, don’t loathe their job or dread the future, etc. And they don’t waste their life trying to keep up with Joneses or win admiration and validation from others.

Money, career, etc...well, fine, but do they make you happy? A lot of people who furiously pursue career success are trying to prove something. Often, they were unwanted, or bullied, as children, and think that by getting promotion or a big house, and rubbing people’s noses in it, they will have won. But what’s the point if deep down you are full of insecurity and self-loathing?

I was going to say, health. I see healthy people as possessing a super power they’re utterly unaware of!