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How Do You Define Success?

How Do You Define Success ? If you ask this question, you will receive various answers because the definition of 'success' will vary from person to person. While a few people may be agnostic towards questions like this, a person may say that he wants to amass wealth within 10 years. So, his view of success is to become rich. Another person may say that they want to climb the rungs of their career ladder and that their success trajectory will end only if they reach the top position in their company. The focus here is career-oriented and not money-oriented. Similarly, there can be as many definitions for the word "success" as there are human beings.  A study of the lives of highly rich may reveal that not all of them are happy. This means that money cannot get you happiness. If a rich person boasts that he is a heavy-hitter and that he keeps working for 90 or 100 hours a week, what is the use? How can he enjoy his life? He has thrown work-life balance to the wind. He do...

Comfortable Life, A Mirage or Can It Be Reality?

According to almost everyone, a comfortable life is one in which they have lots of money. The thought of leading such a comfortable life will make your neurons dance delightfully with a euphoric feeling. Let us for argument's sake assume that this is true. Who does not wish to lead such a comfortable life? But in the present circumstances, fulfilling this wish is not easy for everyone. This is not because there is a dearth of methods to earn good money but because some issue or another may rob people of peace of mind. So, the hot-button question now is: How can one fulfill his or her wish of leading a comfortable life? So, here are a few thoughts about this. There are two powerful methods to get hold of lots of money . But ironically, they consist of contrasting ingredients. Let us delve a little deeper. 1. This tip may sound philosophical to some people. But it is only partially so though there is always a raging debate about it. This tip mainly focuses on sustainabilit...