Hi,
At different stages of life I would have defined success differently. I think this is the same for lots of my friends, who are now changing careers.
At this stage of my life, I don't use the word success anymore, because then one has to deal with failure. I tell my son to live the life he chooses to live. No matter what, it it will not be a success or a failure. It will be what he chooses to do.
Right now, I am developing my domain
www.links.com. I have no idea where it is going, which is why I am here. But I haven't set any goals or targets. I would like it to grow. But if it doesn't, I'll still be O.K. with it.
When I was younger, my goal was to grow my savings at a steady rate, never risking principle, thereby taking advantage of compounding. I achieved this by leveraging the skills that I was best in, and never wondering far from my core abilities. What I needed to learn, I learned incrementally, so that my mistakes were small ones. And when I realized that I was getting no where, I did not hesitate to change direction. Never thought of it as a failure, just another experiment.
Rich