Success = Happiness

For me, being successful is being happy, and being happy is being successful. Then, in life, the secret of success is happiness, and the secret of happiness is success. If we continue our discussion like this, it will never get over. Therefore, let’s go specific to the matter. So, here is that precise question. what to do to become successful in life? Yes, here is the answer. Attain and maintain what makes you happy in life! As simple as that. But, what is 'that' makes you happy in life? What is 'that' to attain and maintain to be successful in life? Here comes difference in preferences among each one of us. Let that be naturally so.

Everyone has a small list of priorities that makes him or her happy in life. Our prime list is too small. But, a long ever growing list is hidden within every one of us as part of our basic human nature. Let us forget about that unending long list as that can never be satisfied completely. My prime list contains only three elements that make me happy in life and if I can attain and maintain them I feel successful too. They are – Family, Health and Wealth. I wish and recommend everyone to keep family and health on the top of his or her list. Regardless of a very few exceptions, those two are already with us by default against the strain of attainment, and their maintenance is considerably easy if we render a little care and importance to them. They can generally be lost only if we neglect them dangerously. Therefore, let me keep them, family and health, aside from the purview of our discussions further.

Apart from the two, what is 'that' makes us happy and successful? This is the crucial questions here. I hope wealth is an inarguable choice for most of us to make us happy and feel us successful in life.  Again, our understanding of wealth also has distinctions based on our preferences and priorities. Because there are multiple forms of wealth – money, fame, power, respect, influence, knowledge, charisma, fulfilment and so on. Your choices of wealth based on your priorities on them, your combinations of them, your intensities with them and your magnitudes about them can play important roles to determine the criteria of your happiness and success. Here, idea and practice of one’s destination and path of success changes from the other, though the basic principle of success – happiness reciprocity does not change. That is, success is attaining and maintaining of what makes you happy. Anyway, wealth, in terms of money, is the very component that can add fragrance to our happiness and glow to our success in life.

The craft or profession that you choose to attain and maintain your priorities of wealth is supremely significant at this juncture. The core question here is, are you able to do your preferred craft or profession that makes you happy to attain and maintain your preferred wealth or not. If yes, lucky you go. If not, you will not be happy in life and cannot be considered successful even if you could amass a lot of wealth. So, your type of wealth as well as the way of attaining and maintaining that wealth is also significant in making you happy, and hence, successful in life.

Yes, success is happiness. Happiness is doing the right craft you want to do along with attaining and maintaining the right wealth of your choice by doing that craft in life. This is real success in life. Complicated? Not really. It’s very simple if you can discover the single thing of your excellence that makes you happy. And then, attain and maintain wealth out of that choice to claim your success in life. Don’t be so silly to say that watching television is the single thing that makes you happy. Why? Because, that can never leverage any wealth for you! Here is my point. The single thing you do to make you happy must be potential enough to attract your preferred combination of wealth too. Just like: money, respect and fulfilment in my case.

To attain and maintain what makes you happy and bring in success in your life, you have to practice three things without any delay: Focus, Discipline, Labor (FDL). Yes, focus only on the single thing of your happiness; and, discipline every required areas of your life for your excellence in the single thing; then, do a lot of labor to attain your success in the single thing that makes you happy. Finally, but once again, stay focused, disciplined and labored evermore to maintain your success and happiness in life. That’s all.