Angelbonds "In my view, success means many things, and is quite individual to each person. I think that I am successful in my life: being a single divorced mom, and having raised my child for the last eight years by myself makes me a success through my own eyes. I’m also proud of not being a victim of circumstance: I choose to see myself as a survivor.

I believe in self-motivation. We each make our choices and we each make our happiness and we are each responsible for our actions.

What else? I am successful when it comes to love in my life: I am happy within and my child is grounded. I am balanced with my yin and yang and remain grounded. My career is successful; I’ve been in the same industry for over 28 years. I love going to work – it beats being unemployed!

Life sends you curve balls, and it’s how you handle them - whether you "hit them out of the ball park"! - that counts. Life is also about chances...because how do you know if you’ve lived if you don’t take a chance?"
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MichaelB610 "Well, let’s see. In my opinion, I am successful, but not for obvious reasons! Success is a very personal thing....in my case, I’m happy and proud of having created a good environment for my family, myself and for others. For me it’s important to be able to say that I’m comfortable – but not materialistic – that I have the time to work to help others less fortunate, and that I have the will to keep trying to explain and express the need to help and protect all beings on our planet."

Newonisland "To me, success involves achieving goals you set for yourself, whether they be occupational, relationship-based, personal, financial, athletic, or whatever. Success is being able to feel you have done the best you can, that you are a good person and that you are happy. Sometimes we can be successful in some areas but not in others. Am I successful? Yes, in many areas, but not in all. I'm still searching for a best friend, soul mate and a successful relationship. So in thinking further, I guess a total success would be the individual that achieves their goals in all areas of importance to them."

Mumiz "Success? Hm. That’s a topic of concern for me right now; I’ve been looking for a partner on the internet for quite a while, but so far haven’t been successful. I have ads in different sites and I’ve received a lot of answers, but I still haven’t found the person I can be very close with. So therefore I have to admit that I am not that successful in this realm! What could be the reason? Well, I think it’s about both the women who write to me as well as myself. My problem could be that I might be too demanding. The major problem about the women who write me seems to be that, first of all, they do not really relate to my person but just write about themselves.. Second, they often write some letters and then stop without expressing why. Still, I’m optimistic. I’m not giving up hope of finding a partner -- or good friends - online. Something else I found out after all those years of searching . . .if you want to be successful in finding friends or a partner you should not be fixated on the internet! I believe you can find close people everyday, in every second and in all different places in this world.

I’ve been thinking about what it would take for me to feel truly successful.. Following my life philosophy is one aspect: in life you must continue to create new aims. Higher and lower aims, part aims and big aims . . . Not only how often you reach your aims but also how much you are able to create new aims and how you deal with losses determines if you are successful! Therefore the most successful people are not the people with much money or a high social reputation, but those who always find new aims in their life. People with a high level of frustration tolerance, who can cope with losses . . .these are the ones who do well. Last but not least you are successful if you find something like inner peace and discover balance within yourself. When I reach this point, then I’ll know that I’ll have attained true success."

Curlylox511 "Success? Success for me involves attaining personal and professional goals. It’s everything from little daily goals such as working out, completing a domestic task or spending time with family, to larger goals such as attaining a master degree, finding a lifelong partner and raising my children to be the best they can be! So I think I’m pretty successful so far . . . and I’m looking forward to being more so in the future!"

SouthbayGent "Success? Well, for me that means reaching a point where you’re satisfied with whatever part of your life you’re referring to. In my professional world, for example, I am very successful and happy with where I am.

Personal life . . . well, that’s another story. I am on here to trying make that a success as well! When I have a woman to complete my life that would be true success! I am an extrovert by nature – a rescuer – but I want to find a woman that knows what it means to be partner, to be in balance, and to share the good and the bad with someone who will do the same for her. I want to find someone who can make me smile when I frown - as I will for her. Someone who let me cry I need to but will put a smile on my face when I am done - just as I will for her. I want someone who will let me be with all my faults and love me anyway, as I’ll allow her the same and will never stop loving her. I want someone who will let me breathe in her scent as fall asleep and be the first scent I know when I wake, and someone who values me as I value her. Now THAT would be success in its truest, most natural form!"