The key to a successful life is happiness

Most people would say to you that the only folks who have the credibility to talk about success are those who themselves have succeed in life. Well, that sort of makes sense doesn’t it?

As a matter of fact if success was totally based on how much assets or money one has invested in the market, it would have been an oxymoron for me to even talk about success. But since there are different variations as to what a successful person mean, sort of gave me the right to engage in that conversation. And the term can also be reasoned which makes anyone who has the capacity to rationalize it the right to debate what it means to be successful in life.

After reading this piece, you’ll come to understand that as long as an issue can be rationalized anyone with great common sense can talk about it. To believe anything else would be a lie.

Moreover, those who carry this belief expressed their opinions as such: you can’t talk about success if you - yourself are broke? A reasonable question to consider but in the manner by which it has been addressed portrayed a narrow view of what success is. It puts it into this small paradigm between the collections of capital over material good. This would be true only if all of us recognize someone who is considered successful as being materially rich.

Those who said that money is success couldn’t have been so wrong. Money is the advantage point of success; it is what one does with it that will determine how successful one is. People do not remember us because of how much money we have, but instead because of how we have influenced their lives. Beyonce is not successful because of how much money she own. She is successful because her songs have touched the lives of many others. She just so happened to have a talent that attracts a lot of money, but had her talent not drowned that much money she still would have been successful for the lives that she has touched.

If the acquisition of money for the purpose of gaining material good was the only definition of success, then they would be no fun or the need to strive for material good. As we have noticed “happiness” is the key attribute for success, and we should not let anyone tell us anything different.

Everything that we do in life is to gain happiness whether it be buying a new car or a beautiful home are all for the achievement of happiness. Therefore, happiness is the establishment of success, not the other way around.

The most cherish thing above all, is that we don’t all need a big house, and two cars to be happy. If that was the case very few people would be happy. What we have witnessed in countries where people don’t have much is that even with the little that they have - they still manage to share it with others who have less than they do, and as a result they have gained a sense of happiness out of it.

In reality we can be just as happy as someone who is ten times richer than we are, and even with their charisma still have no envious attitude towards their wealth. If you think about it both the wealthy person and the well off are both rich in a sense, the only difference there is that this richness is due to happiness. And since there are in a different tax bracket which of-course influences the types of people they attract as friends, this type of engagement can sometimes causes them to be out of focus with reality.

The small deviation of that analogy is that the person who is ten times richer can be less happy than the one who is less off. Which then causes one to question what is the meaning of success?

If the key to success is happiness than that key should open the door to success at all times. If this key has been proven to be inoperable at times, than the lock must be changed, because if this lock signified the people in that person’s life who are causing this dissatisfaction, we can then conclude that the person need to change his/her environment to gain success via happiness.

A simple question but this definition can have various notations it’s all depends on individual fate and values. Nevertheless, regardless of one’s values or fate we all need money to achieve our goals.

The only thing there, is how much of it is necessary to satisfy one’s interest. If we actually think that to be successful imply that we must want money as much as we want to breathe than we might as well drown because if that’s the value we go by, than the more we have the more we are going to want.

The truth of the matter is that the meaning of success deviates depending on the individual. However, what it means to be successful to one person may not be for the other. And for that we say success is relative to one’s goals.

Whereas success for one person may be the accomplishment of a successful book which will bring him/her some income - for the next person that may not be enough. In this case the author gives more value to the knowledge that he/she has shared with the world as oppose to the money, while some may see no success in that.

Success can be as meaningful as the victory over a deadly disease, let say cancer or a severe case of diabetes. Success can also be defined as someone who has the ability to maintain his/her protocol without having to be rich as long as they’re happy. In some cases we can say success is having faith in God or the execution of a successful business that is maintaining the recessive waves of this economy.

There are people in this world who are filthy rich and yet are not happy. Some of which are kind with good hart rich people who are suffering from an untreatable disease. These people would prefer to give everything in their account just to have a chance to feel normal again, and yet that chance never presented itself.

Now, the reason we brought that up is to illustrate that “money” is only the fourth wheel of the automobile which represent happiness. In that sense to have a good drive in success we must add first the wheel of "health", the wheel of "love", the wheel of "family values" and lastly the wheel of "money". It is until we have those entire four components can we actually say that our automobile which is success can run safe without fear.

However, to be logically correct some have managed to live a happy life without the third wheel which is the common belief of family values. And they have done it by formatting their own family structure. Those folks believe that a family are those people in society who shares "love' and "belief" with each other. Which mean it doesn't have to be blood relatives. To concur that they're wrong would imply that we miss the whole concept of what it means to have a family.

To conclusively affiliate the meaning of a successful person as someone who is rich or desperately striving to be can give our young ones the wrong impression, especially if the route to achieve success can lead to options that do not complement their health or educated values. In this case they can possibly drown while holding success in their hands.

If they must want to be successful as much as they want to breathe than from this analogy they is nothing that they will not do to succeed. Since breathing is the key to life to want success as much as one wants to breathe means that they should do anything in their power to acquire success even if the path to success is leads to one drowning.

If they must want success as much as they want to breathe, than the word “success” from that analogy is referring to the acquisition of money, for anything less would not have equate the need for money in place of breathing. There are nothing that one will not do just to have the opportunity to breathe. There are many things that people may not do to acquire money if they are given options.

There will be less evil in the world if the acquisition of money is not the core principle of success. We can all be successful if we give less value to money, and more value to love, for success equals happiness and if we're not happy it doesn't matter how much money we have in our bank account we have not succeed.

We should be careful not to confuse the illusion of success for someone who is happy in all sense of the word with someone who has a loose flow of capital. Since we have already conclude that Money doesn’t always equal happiness, we have to separate the two because if the route to being successful call for desperate measures which sometimes can include robberies, murders or the plot to commit a scheme - that would be the illusion of success.

One can achieved success through their legal tendencies, and later in life be guided by greed to commit an illegal scheme for the acquisition of more assets and capital. Example: Bernard Madoff.

We have rationalized that success is not always how much we have, but rather are we contempt with what we have. What often makes us unhappy with what we have even though we may have more than 75% of our population - is not how much we have than the 75% but rather how much more our colleagues have compared to us.

The above mentioned is exactly the attitude that is harmful to the world. We divide ourselves into separate balloons which are inflated with helium, the more of this chemical we add into the balloon the higher it rise to the air. If the helium within the balloon signified money or success and there is not enough of it to distribute around, some of us will be left out while those balloon that are inflated with helium which are suspended high up in the air will be fighting for more to be at the highest level.

This analogy meant to pen point that there is a fight among the supper rich and that fight is for possessions of assets. And as we know whenever there is a battle they will be casualty. The casualties in that sense are from both sides - the less off and the rich - because if one group wins others will lose and those who are less off are more often the ones who loses. They lose because they don't have the connections nor the capital to fight for what is theirs. And as a consequence, they ended up being sucked out through the process of job lost.

From this concept we can conclude that the idea of wanting success as much as one can breathe can leave that one breathless before the acquisition of success. If success is not guided by some types of value system, than whether or not we achieve what is perceived as success doesn't imply we'll be happy with it. If as people we can't see the danger in the idea as wanting success as much as we want to breathe, than we're building a foundation for a big surprise.

That very idea also conflict with the family value because if we think about it a bit, we’ll realize that if we must want success as much as we can breathe, than we also want it more than sharing time with our family. If breathing is the key to life, and we want success as much as we want to breathe, than where does that leave family values? You can’t kill two birds with one stone my friend at least not in this concept, one will suffer

That’s set for now anyone who has any question about this idea you can stimulate my mind by asking i a question.