Success!

[Grat3fulh3ad]

What is your idea of true success?

Here's a couple of quotations the wife has dug up, which imho differentiate from the typical selfish ideas about success, and define true success along the lines which I view it.

“It is possible that the scrupulously honest man may not grow rich so fast as the unscrupulous and dishonest one; but the success will be of a truer kind, earned without fraud or injustice.”
Samuel Smiles (1812-1904)

"To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; To earn the approbation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty; To find the best in others; To give of one's self; To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; To have played and laughed with enthusiasm and sung with exultation; To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived - This is to have succeeded."
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)

 

[desant]

When i get weed legalised i will know i succeeded

 

[cork144]

when humanity realises we need the best of us leading us and not the least.

that will be success.

 

[Grat3fulh3ad]

So Cork will never be successful, since we will only ever elect those who are seeking power...
and when the work of the thousands of activists working for legalization comes to fruition, desant will consider himself a success...

Those are completely different answers than I would have imagined people giving...

Success has more to do with other's actions than your own?

 

[FarOut1]

To want for nothing!!!

Not to mean One already has everything.

In fact, One might have nothing!

That is true success!!!

Om Nama Shivia

 

[Mala Tempora]

I will consider myself a success if I can honestly say that I've worked my hardest, utilized my potential, and excelled at whatever I choose to dedicate my life to. I haven't quite decided what that is though, which is a bit of a problem.

 

[cork144]

well my personal success will come from a completely wind powered magnetic flywheel that for aslong as the wind turbine has a small ammount of knetic energy the magnetic flywheel will continue to spin,

direct this onto a modified alternator and you have a power source.

 

[Grat3fulh3ad]

well my personal success will come from a completely wind powered magnetic flywheel that for aslong as the wind turbine has a small ammount of knetic energy the magnetic flywheel will continue to spin,

direct this onto a modified alternator and you have a power source.

much more realistic answer...
You using flywheels spun out of resins, or metal flywheels?
I'm assuming magnetic bearing and magnetic perimeter?


More so than defining your path to success, what do you consider the criteria of success?

 

[cork144]

im running on skatebearing atm getting my grip with the angle placement,

found a pretty neat repellent run, using O magnets cut inhalf then using a magnet that runs in the middle of the now C shaped magnets,

had to hand cut all the magnetic sheilding so that it would not attract but as they run past increase the ammount of push,

just a pain taking appart so many speakers, im hoping to beable to go offgrid with one

 

[jammie]

success to me is the sweet little things- like this perfectly rolled and smokin joint i'm huffin on right now. wish ya all were here to share

 

[Grat3fulh3ad]

success to me is the sweet little things- like this perfectly rolled and smokin joint i'm huffin on right now. wish ya all were here to share

We could all go a long way toward being consistantly happy, if we were more open to the joys of small successes...

 

[Grat3fulh3ad]

im running on skatebearing atm getting my grip with the angle placement,

found a pretty neat repellent run, using O magnets cut inhalf then using a magnet that runs in the middle of the now C shaped magnets,

had to hand cut all the magnetic sheilding so that it would not attract but as they run past increase the ammount of push,

just a pain taking appart so many speakers, im hoping to beable to go offgrid with one

If one had a perfectly balanced phenolic resin flywheel, which bears magnetically, and whose inertia was being added to via magnetism via low volume wind turbine...

 

[Grat3fulh3ad]

I really do like RW Emerson's list though...
I think these things make me feel more successful than my possessions...

To laugh often and much;

To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children;

To earn the approbation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends;

To appreciate beauty;

To find the best in others;

To give of one's self;

To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition;

To have played and laughed with enthusiasm and sung with exultation;

To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived

- This is to have succeeded.

 

[caljim]

success to me is the sweet little things- like this perfectly rolled and smokin joint i'm huffin on right now. wish ya all were here to share

We could all go a long way toward being consistantly happy, if we were more open to the joys of small successes...

Being open to those small things helps to bring more peace into my life.

I will have found success when the Idealized Me, that I see in my head, and the person I am are one in the same.

There have been moments, but they go just as quickly as they come. Just have to keep working at it.

 

[Bobby Stainless]

Success is a 8 week cured Casey.

 

[ureapwhatusow]

the road less traveled? or to not conform to the ways of this world ?

to embrace the unfolding beauty of ones life

to realize that yes I am this time and place is indeed a magnificent thing beyond hope this thing our life

and to look past the simply daily callings of our body and the landscape others have painted around us

but instead to cultivate that part that we call our heart and soul

and those who share this exciting revelation seek to light a candle such as was lit for them



but I contend that success is not defined on the destination or the way of the road

but with the energy that guides you down it

the hardest and most rewarding road is led with kindness and caring

the cost of this journey is a investment of love, whose only promise of return is from a universe we have yet to understand

but understand, that so any start this path and regardless of how tough the journey is they do not faulter

this is our testimony

success is not a destination but the journey of choices we made are making and have yet to make make

what guides your choices down the road you travel and i will tell how i feel about success

 

[ureapwhatusow]

Success is a 8 week cured Casey.

you know that works too

 

[Big D]

I gauge MY success on how I treat people. Spread the love! If it was so easy everyone would do it

 

[ddrew]

When your an untouchable island, with absolute strength in 3 areas, Mentally, physically, financially.

 

[Grat3fulh3ad]

is any man an island? Are we not inextricably linked to the world around us? Do the means used to acquire strength influence the measure of the success?