"Personal success" is similar to playing The Game. If you aren't aware of it, you're already succeeding, because you haven't defined it otherwise.
Personally, I wish to stay happy moment-to-moment. I want to be 100% engaged in any thing that I do, even in the most mundane of tasks like putting on clothes, eating, shaving. I don't want my mind to leap ahead to fantasies of the next thing, as it doesn't improve my future enjoyment, and it rarely gives me any useful insight. And I don't want to burden myself with abstract thoughts of "is my life as good as it could be?" as that leads me to beat myself up for no reason.
This does not conflict at all with the more material goals in life; rather, it puts them into proper perspective.
Yes, I consider myself successful. As a corollary to what I have said correlating success with people is a better metric than correlating with money. The article blurbed something about exercise and a strong body. Well are you going to be successful at 70 based on this?
Putting people first in your life will give you a more enjoyable life, would help you get through during your life's failures and no-one will say I am glad this motherfckr kicked the bucket.
> Are you more successful...
As soon as you put the more or less words before successful you lost the game. You measuring success against materialistic targets. Anyway if that's your cup of tea is ok by me!
> correlating success with people is a better metric than correlating with money
Sure, I agree. I did that
> The article blurbed something about exercise and a strong body
You mis-understood or I did not communicate properly my sentance I said "Exercise myself to the highest potential". I meant exercise in the sense or work to my fullest potential. "blurbed" seems like a bit of an unnecessarily argumentative phrase.
> As soon as you put the more or less words before successful you lost the game
Hmm, I think you view a lack of success is a negative thing, where as I view degrees of success as a way of something to achieve. If you just think you are success and have nothing to achieve then that is fine. It personally drives me. None of my metrics were particularly materialistic
Any way this is just my opinion, I am not trying to impose it on you
What about the degree of success? Are you more successful if the most people possible are crying with the greatest passion?
Shouldn't success give you a more enjoyable life while you are still alive?