OK, I'm cheating a bit, i've been given this as an assignment this week. But what truly makes you successful, in the end?
The size of your penis compensator on the drive and how big you can inflate the missus bazookas....
Or on a more serious note I'd say having enough good friends, being respected and appreciated and being able to smile more than frown.
When Farmer Hoggett looks at you and says....
"That'll do, Pig"
At "the end" we are all as succesful as each other - it is a great leveller.
I'd take a punt at two things - having had a fulfilling/happy life and helped others achieve the same.
That and the number of bikes you own (7)
One who is content.
Consistently getting 100+ 'Likes' to your bragging posts on Facebook?
Me, just look at Me.
Failing that..
You, just look at You.
HTHs.
Success is only measurable up against the expectations of the person being analysed.
One person's success may be anothers hell.
Equally another person may feel they have failed against their own expectation but look to be on top of the world compared to their own life.
How ever as I have learnt over the years no one ever tells you the whole story and things are not always as they seem so don't measure your success against others lives.
Simple. It's how happy you are.
He who dies with the most kit wins.
Edit: written in bed.
[s]Getting out of bed before 10 o'clock[/s] Not having to get out of bed before 10 o'clock.
When you can wear tasteless shoes in business class.
Getting out of bed before 10 o'clock even though you don't have to.
True success.
Owning your very own power kite.
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Having control of your life, being able to make decisions about employment and lifestyle rather than having them forced on you.
Suck Cess.
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"Successful" requires three seperate things to happen :
- Set goals that are sufficiently ambitious;
- Achieve those goals;
- Repeat.
Just achieving goals isn't success, as that view can encourage settling for less by not aiming high enough, and a single success isn't being "successful"
I own multiple hats 🙂
Owning your very own power kite.
To be truly successful one must bestow the gift of power kiting upon another.
Simple. It's how happy you are.
Too limited in my opinion, if I was on my deathbed examining my life I'd feel I shortchanged myself if I summed up my life as 'happy'.
From another, wider, perspective, having offspring is the marker of a successful life.
But what truly makes you successful, in the end?
Harvesting ideas off the internet, finishing your assignment early and heading out for a ride. 🙂
We have a winner.
Simple. It's how happy you are.Too limited in my opinion, if I was on my deathbed examining my life I'd feel I shortchanged myself if I summed up my life as 'happy'.
As a summary, I'd be more than pleased with 'Happy'.
From another, wider, perspective, having offspring is the marker of a successful life.
Really? What if that offspring is a mass murderer, serial killer, or next Hitler. Just saying.
Could you face this guy and not get wiped from existance?
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INQUISITOR: You have been granted the greatest gift of all: the gift of life. Tell me, what you have done to deserve this superlative good fortune?
RIMMER: Well, I say this with the highest respect, but what gives you the right to ask -- no, actually -- demand that answer of me, Your Magnificence? (He curtsies and bows.)
INQUISITOR: All must answer to the Inquisitor!
RIMMER: But how do I know I'll get a fair hearing?
INQUISITOR: Because, like all who stand before the Inquisitor, your judge
shall be...
The INQUISITOR lifts his facemask to reveal... RIMMER's face.
INQUISITOR: ...yourself!
RIMMER: Oh smeg!
if happiness = success then this
The meaning of life, is to have meaning in your life.
one must bestow the gift of power kiting upon another.
Help me! What started this power kite business?! 😀
I'm with orangespyderman I think - success is at least somewhat objective. You can't just declare that you've been successful because you've been happy. I am not successful. I'm not happy either, but I'm busily giving up on being successful to try and become happier. 🙂
Set your standards low.
Setting your goals lower than your achievements 🙂
crushing your enemies driving them before you and hearing the lamentation of their women.
As John Candy said in Cool Runnings:
"If you not enough without a gold medal, you'll never be enough with one."
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when Alec Baldwin parodies you
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My power kite is bigger than yours
*sits back, looking smug*
Trailrat +1
One mans success will be another mans hell
Don't worry about it, just be happy.
Money definitely doesn't mean success in my book, but it obviously does to some folks.
Not wasting the best part of your life working to buy meaningless crap. Having fun and joyful experience with friends and loved ones. Also Getting to ride my bike 3 times a week counts as a mini success.
Reading a dictionary. That, and owning your own shoes.
*Edit, Really, 'success' 'at the end' is subjective. Unless you view life purely in sporting terms. You always die. Whatever came before can only be measured by those who knew of you, and either saw or experienced your achievements.
Did you leave the planet a better place? People's live better for having you in them?
Whoever has the happiest life.
I don't do success. I just achieve a level of satisfaction that I haven't screwed everything up.
Money, house, job, family or whatever, meh. Unless someone proves to me that's the actual goal in life, it makes crap all difference. Just going to end up rotting in a hole anyway.
Also from same episode of Red Dwarf:
Rimmer: Why did no-one mention this before? If I had been told about this at the start, that the object was to lead a worthwhile life, I could have done something about it. All those charity telethons when I used ring in and pledge donations — if I had known all this, I would have given them *my* credit card number.
I personally go by time doing the things I like to do vs the time and effort spent to enable me to do them. The more of the former and less of the later equals more success.
When 'Watch This' isn't followed by injury
I would definitely struggle to answer this question at this stage in my life.
I 'know' I am successful because I 'feel' successful. I have everything a person could possibly want... indeed, I have everything I had ever dreamed of having when I was young and thinking about adulthood.
But regardless, on a day to day basis, I mostly just feel content.
boils down to three basic things for me - being content, comfortable and happy
Not spending your life posting on MTB forums.
Making it through a whole day without someone looking at me with that special mixture of pity and contempt?
It's a great question Op and it's one I've actually been considering recently. I hate that when cycling alone my subconscious decides to bombard me with reminders of times when my behaviour has been less than exemplary. I have actually considered writing a 'my name is earl' type list because yes there are times where I've behaved badly but I tend to block out the times where I've acted selflessly. Somehow in your mind the bad times severly outweigh the good.
