The Optimal Life, It’s Not Perfect, Just Better!

You Don’t Have to Be Great to Be Successful

It’s all about acceptance

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Success is one thing many continue to strive for. It can give meaning and purpose to our life. Yet, it can be exceedingly elusive. Success becomes really confusing, because, like love, there is no singular meaning. Sure, there is an internet definition that applies, but that doesn’t really help. How do you know if you are successful? Or if you’re driving your life to success.

Prepare yourself to be disappointed, as I’m not even going to begin to delve into what success means to me or what it should mean to you. I’ll leave that discovery to you and the quest for “what is the meaning of life.” Both are esoteric, and quite frankly, I don’t think they will ever have a single answer. To really piss you off, any answer you adopt today, I’ll guarantee “success” will have another meaning for you 5, 10, or even 20 years from this very moment.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

— Albert Schweitzer