I have been wondering about this subject a lot lately. Will I be happier if I make more money, have more power, enjoy more prestige, or even have more friends and keep my condo cleaner?
I am beginning to think that success and happiness are not necessarily linked. One can be successful and very unhappy, while another can be a complete failure and happy as a clam. I almost believe that success can breed unhappiness if you let it. While everyone should be able to enjoy what they define as success I think that happiness is more important to achieve. Either way, success is a wonderful thing, if you let it be. You just have to make sure that it does not become consuming.
Hopefully I will be able to better balance both success and happiness. It is keeping sight of the important things that keep success from consuming me. It will always be more important to me to spend time with my family and friends than it is to stay late at work and get a few more dollars. I will always choose people over things. These are my priorities. I need to work on refining my definition of success to include these things.
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