Never ask advice of someone with whom you wouldn’t want to trade places. - Benjamin P. Hardy

No one else can define success for you. Defining your own success criteria is how you become self-determined. This is how you develop an internal reference system. You decide how you will measure yourself.

Author and philosopher, Dr. Stephen R. Covey, said, “Mental creation always precedes physical creation.

This brings up a highly nuanced and crucial distinction: you can want something and be 100% committed to that thing without needing it. This is the counterintuitive reality: by no longer needing what you want, you are actually far more enabled to get it.