What Success Means Now





Success is subjective. It means different things to different people. One person defines success as the ability to pursue one's passion without temporal, spatial and monetary constraints.

Success no longer means the Rolex, Gulfstream or the yatch. Of course, those things are still desirable but the significance of it just dropped down the list a few notches. We've seen a major adjustment in our vision of success in recent years and managed to reorder our dreams for the future.

What's important now tends towards more on meaning and values. These are what really matters now:

1. Working and living where and when you want- the offshoot of the internet and digital lifestyle. The internet makes it easy for people to run business and work from home or anywhere whether from Manchuria to Minnesota or from Maine to Mongolia. As long as you have your laptop and internet you are connected.

What's better working for unforgiving corporate behemoth or working quietly and happily right on your kitchen table, wearing only pajamas,sharing office with your kids at the same time watch them grow. It's like seeing the future. The freedom to take long weekends off,having control over your own life, the authority to choose how you spend your time, to do what you want to do. Autonomy is one of the most valuable rewards of success.

And what shows independence/freedom more than the ability to decide where you work and when. You get to spend more time with your family. A happy family is the key to a happy life. And what a better way to invest your time where you'll get the most return, with the ones you love. How,when and where you spend your time is the ultimate success symbol.

2. Your health-the closet full of Louis Vuitton bags, big house, Mercedes Benz are meaningless if you are not healthy.Good health is rated top ingredient of success.

3. Owning Income property-- buying real estate not just for home living but for income producing purposes( parking lots,warehouses,condominiums or even cottages on the beach area) is an important element in gaining financial freedom. There is a growing number of real estate investment units in the U.S. alone and the number is constantly rising.

4. Having an assistant virtual or not- Imagine having the luxury of outsourcing your work to someone else and dedicated it purely to doing things so you don't have to. That's success alright.

5. Adventures like Tim Ferriss aka the 4hourwork week guy. Motorcycling throughout China for under a couple hundred dollars, swim with the sharks, go kayaking the Amazon river, hot air-ballooning across the Atlantic, scale Mt. Everest, traverse the South Pole etc.

Doing something extraordinary, off the wall and dangerous adds excitement that's makes life interesting. So tell great water cooler stories your colleagues will remember. The courage to face new challenges and the freedom to seek new adventures are both indication of someone who has succeeded in life even if it doesn't cost you a fortune.

6. Giving back and donating your experience- entrepreneurs, engineers, town planners etc. give advice and lend their knowledge to those in need and help draw in more donations. "To do more for the world than the world does for you-that is success". ---Henry Ford.

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