A child who smiles home after making it top of his class can be termed successful.
An undergraduate who does well to become a scholar can be termed successful as well.
A young and budding entrepreneur who is doing well in his/her business can be called successful.
The richest man in the world is a successful role model to many who look up to him.
The relative idea of success is what people find difficult coming to terms with. Majority of the times, we only seem to equate success with money. In this part of the clime, the bigger the car you drive, the more people perceive you as being successful. It is a default psyche most humans deliberately fight off.
What parameters do we measure success on?
Who calls the shots?
Who made the rules?
When do we say someone has truly succeeded?
PERCEPTION!
It is a rat race, they say. Everyone keeps running; either away from something or to something.
A race that has no end. The more you have, the more you want to have more.
First, life and living is personal. Take it at your own pace and at your own time. You will have less to worry about.
Second is that no one made the rules. No One. It does not matter when you arrived. What matter is that you eventually did.
How far are you from success?
You are not far, neither are you close. Set your own success goals.
It could be losing 5 pounds per week, reading 50 pages a day consistently, jogging 5 kilometers every morning, anything.
Absolutely anything.
When you achieve these goals, you have succeeded. You are a success - for that period.
Then set another goal, and keep repeating the process.
You are never far away from success. It lives with you.