My previous question was:
"""To be successful in life - what does it mean?"""
Almost all the answers to this question were about: "What is the Success? and how to reach the success" - a variety of correct answers.
Among them Prof. Retter added an answer stating that
"success" is much, but not all in our living".
this answer puzzled me.
And I would very much like to learn/know :
WHAT IS THE MAIN THING IN OUR LIVING?
What is more important than success in Living?
Success is my #4 and comes after: Staying alive, be healthy and family
To me, Our loyalty to God (Allah) is more important than any successes in our lives. Our eternal existence pivots on it.
Dear Prof. Retter:
The dictionary, in particular, says: "living is: "an income sufficient to live on or the means of earning it".
This definition presumes a rather modest life -- of those who is not striving for success. As to me - principally - it could be OK. But the truth is that most of humans are doing their best to achieve Success the higher - the better.
Being healthy. When you are healthy, there is also success and also other things you want.
Be healthy and able to earn enough to give my family a decent life and study my daughters.
Sometimes we don’t realize that we are choosing to be discontent with our lives. We are living someone else’s version of success. We are making decisions based on which ones will get people to like us more. We are trying to fit in without realizing it. We have expectations that the outer world has given us.
We assume that if we don’t have someone else’s bank account, then we must, nay, deserve, to be unhappy. We give ourselves permission to complain and dislike the state of our lives because of an expectation we carry around that we have never thought to challenge. We project peace and happiness onto people who have more material possessions than us, especially celebrities, as we tear their life choices down by claiming they don’t care because they have money.
We assume that someone who is better looking than us, who has better clothes or style, somehow possesses more joy. We accept that, if someone has a more symmetrical face and a more forgiving metabolism, then it’s okay to be jealous, it’s within our right to project that they must be faced with an unending supply of happiness. We don’t challenge this assumption; we digest it as a fact of the world.
It’s more important than ever to define success on your own terms. The media and advertising industry have hit a fever pitch. Greed is commonplace. Money distribution is so grossly uneven that it’s difficult to even believe, despite economists giving us hard facts. We’re constantly being told what will make us happy or better looking or richer or better or more important.
The only thing we’re not encouraged to do is to figure out what the fuck our own successful, happy, beautiful life looks like. We’re barraged and overwhelmed with choices, all of which promise so much that they can’t deliver on.
We’ve heard this before: to define success for yourself. But, what does it mean? How do we do it? Well, in order to block out messages from the outside, you must learn to go inward, to get to the heart of what matters to you.
But, it’s certain that if we chase the dreams of others and their version of a successful life, then we will assuredly find ourselves like hamsters on an exercise wheel: exhausted, but going nowhere.
There is nothing less satisfying than achieving a dream or landmark goal only to realize that it wasn’t even your dream or goal in the first place. That you picked it up through the years and assumed it was yours, yet never took the time to challenge that assumption.
There’s a remarkably different tune when you earn the kind of success that is born out of your own desire. Where it would have felt empty had it been success you assumed you wanted, it feels inspiring, demanding of more greatness from you.
While chasing and dreaming and believing in all the success you are capable of creating is a wonderful pursuit, if you don’t first take the time to understand where your desires are within the complexity of the world’s desires, then you will find yourself on a continuously fruitless search.
Hi everyone.First of all i want to say in my opinion, success is not just achieving goal or goals but is a continuous process in achieving goals in a way that fulfill us or make us feel fulfillment.
So i want to say fulfillment can probably be more important than success.
Thanks a lot.
This depends on how you define success. For me, true success is balance in wealth, health and happiness.
If I can continue to improve in each of these categories, even if its just one percent each day or week, then I feel successful.
If I can step back and realize that I am healthy, wealth and happy, then I would consider myself successful. So for me, I don't think there is anything more important than success.
It is possible that others define success much differently than myself, so for those who only see success in work or finance, then I would suggest that balance is the answer.
I did not understand this when I was younger. When my only goals were financial then my happiness was determined by this and this alone. As a result my health suffered, and my happiness depended on external events and purchasing of items I did not need, or often want.
Becoming a father changed everything for me. This is likely not the same answer for others, and perhaps it changes again for me in another decade or so. But I have never felt better or more successful than when I have true balance between wealth, health and happiness.
Success and these things are not mutually exclusive, in fact, success can make some of them easier to achieve. But most of them result from choices we make. Come to think of it, so does success.
In no particular order these are what come to mind...
- Principled living
- Being loved
- Giving love
- Self-awareness
- Working hard
- Creativity
- Self - Respect
- Respect of others
- Honesty
- Self-sufficiency
- Knowledge (education)
- Satisfying work
- Commitment
- Loyalty
- Health
- Security
- Fairness
- Compassion
- Empathy
- Reasonableness
- Skills
- Coffee and DQ Blizzards
If I understand success correctly, it is the result of achieving and reaching the task that you have set out to achieve?
Why do I think love is more absolute in truth, because with success once we achieve the result, we start looking for the next target to achieve, because that moment is temporary.
Love is unlimited and continues unconditionally, a moment of charity or kindness or love keeps on, giving back to you, even much later.
Having love or being loved,health,money,having good life and everything you have in your mind can be categorized as some kind of success.
What if every one of them does't last long enough?
So achieving every valuable thing that you want in a consistent and continuous process can be the most accurate definition of success in my point of view.
But if you achieve your goals without fulfillment it is a failure because you gain nothing without fulfillment.If you earn massive money but being sad and not satisfied,then you have reached your precious goal without fulfillment and that is the worst failure.
So i want to say fulfillment along with success are the most important things that all of us crave and pursue.
Like Mike noted being alive is more important than success because at least you have a chance and hope!
To Chuck:
All we need in life for is a chance of success in anything we might choose to do.
Hope gives us that chance.
Success phenomenon different from person to another, sometime I feel success but other represented it not success for him. So, the feeling of success depends on character, age, gender, his satisfaction, education level.
In general all persons will be happy when they feel success.
I will go for health too.
Both mental and physical health.
Aiming for success should be rationalised and based on our goals and strengths
(In other words, think 'Do I want to really succeed?', 'How can I do it without exaggerating'?)
If these are ignored, success might be on the expense of our mental and physical health. It will not be sustainable but maybe negative.
I do not agree with the archetype of success that today's society sells us and that unfortunately has a lot of effect on people, on young people. For me, success in life is in other things: to concentrate our efforts on just causes (even if they call us utopian), always trying to act from ethics, ... As a university professor I also believe that I have an obligation to educate young people in the principles, in the values ... because the future will be theirs tomorrow, if with this an advance is achieved for society, what greater success can we wish for!
And above all "not reaching the final account with my empty hands" ...
"Keep falsehood and lies far from me; give me neither poverty nor riches, but give me only my daily bread." - Jesus
"To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him." - Buddha
Peace of mind is more important .
If we got our peace it will be the great success
Being alive is better than success because that should come before anything else
It’s the motivation why we do things (e.g. societal context) and not running for profit and fame. Sounds too simple or naive????
Nothing is more important than success, except for all the other things that really matter in one's life.
Важнее успеха в нашей жизни здоровье (собственное и своих близких).
Good health and well beings along with family welfare with respect to Economic Justice may ensure equitable human life i. e., 'Truth' of my life
Pertinent question: “What is more important than success in our Living?”
According to Winston Churchill: “The true guide of life is to do what is right”; “Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm”.
https://www.goalcast.com/2017/06/20/top-24-winston-churchill-quotes-to-inspire-you-to-never-surrender/
Success is my #4 and comes after: Staying alive, be healthy and family
I believe that the most important of success in our lives is the satisfaction of God and human beings from what we do to contribute to the service of human societies. Their most important abilities of success are not to be on the wrong path no matter how tempting
The most important of success is to choose the path of truth and not move away from it. The most important of success is to contribute clearly in supporting poor people to develop their abilities.
Good health, life, and family. All of these come before success because without those we will not enjoy life or our successes.
Mental and psychological comfort, happiness, complacency and conviction are all more important factors than success, and the pursuit of success and work towards it is more important than success itself.
God did not create in vain the children of Adam in vain, but created them for a great and great mission, and this is reflected in the Almighty says: (Ospstmn created you in vain, and that you are to us, we do not return to the believers: The universe consists of mountains, seas, rivers, oceans, trees, stone and beings, and creates us in the best and most beautiful form.This honor honors us with human beings, just to eat, drink, reproduce, have fun and play, but we have created the innocent for a great and enormous task of realizing it and gaining it in the world and the hereafter.
The concept of worship is not limited to prayer, fasting, dhikr, reading the Qur'an and rituals of worship known to us. For many who have created a preference; to repair the earth and build it and make it a place full of good, peace, love and beauty among human beings, so that it feeds the poor, or helps the poor, or gives relief to the liquid and the student. Those who vandalized it, and spread killing, bloodshed, evil, blackness and darkness.
Therefore, the greatest success in the world is the success in entering the Creator Paradise after death
Success may be important, but there are many things far more important to living than success.
I wish above all things that you prosper and be in good health, but above all have good success. NOTHING can be better than SUCCESS in all that you do.
Success means little if you are in bad health, have no family or friends, security, or are no longer breathing.
The most important thing in life which overrides the joy of success is to love and care for others regardless of their color, race and religion.
Success, money, fame- all are very important but in the deep sense they are just mental illusion, "spiritual peace" is the most important thing in our living- as our Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) said, “Riches are not from an abundance of worldly good but from a contented mind.” “The greatest of richness is the richness of the soul.” Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him).
There are many things in life that are more important and satisfying than success, including friendship, love, and happiness.
If you were to never succeed again in life family, your health, God, and security would still be very important to you. However, if you woke up and had none of that your successes would mean little to you.
To me, I think knowing and fulfiling God's purpose is the major thing. Rick Warren has a lot to say about this in his: The Purpose Driven Life. Fulfilling one's purpose comes with a lot of self-fulfilment and success.
I agree with comments by Chia-Lin Chang because success is extra and depends on one’s definition
Satisfaction in every condition (which is actually very hard to achieve)
My health is more important to me than success. If I am bedridden because of a sickness then there is no way for me to succeed. It would be farthest from my mind. All I would be thinking about is if I would survive to the next day.
To be satisfied with yourself is the biggest success.
To be healthy is the most important thing.
When you are successful, the first symptom is to become happy. And when you are happy, you can deduce you are successful. It seems these are in correspondence (a mutual relationship). But being happy is not always due to money or possessions, but being happy is due to being satisfied with your life. And being satisfied with your life could be due to being satisfactory to what you hold and how you feel towards your life, eventhough if others think you are not leading a successful life. And the only way to feel good towards your life, is to frequently mention and remember the Almighty God in your heart. الا بذکر الله تطمئن القلوب. Translation: beware that only with God's remembrance you can ascertain your heart. Not to forget God, even if he forgot you= success. Moreover, you are satisfied towards your life, only if God is satisfied towards your being, and God is satisfied towards your being, only if other people are satisfied from your being, benefit from you and pray for you. Success is a feeling, that its longlasting format, is only endowed by God to special people.
You have the answer in the last word of your question. Living is much more important.
More important than success is achieving harmony in life, a balance between needs and opportunities.
I personally believe that health is the most significant issue in one's life, which overrides all other aspects of living. As Amit Kalantri states, “When wealth goes only happiness goes, when health goes even the hope goes.”
Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.
Khalil Gibran
Many things are more important than success. You can live a fulfilling life without being great at your job, publishing papers, or getting awards.
Almost all successful people give more credit to the process (Journey) than the outcome (Success). Human beings are the most complex creatures. The meaning of success is not the same for all. The nature of success itself is temporary. It is never final. The moment we get success in one thing, it no longer motivates us and we set our target to the next bigger success. So, if we keep on running after success, all our life we will continue to run after one or the other success. Wise people know this very well. So, they not only get success, they enjoy their journey as well.
Happiness is one of the main reasons for living, so achieving that goal is a success.
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