What is success? - 16/101 Entrepreneur Questions and Answers

This is an except from my book: 101 Entrepreneur Questions and Answers.Success is what you personally define it is as. My personal definition is: a progression towards a worthy idea by working towards a defined goal.Success is working towards a worthy ideal and success is when you achieve what it is you set out to do. Success is when you get what you are after and for your success you have got to have goals, objectives and priorities that help shapes your future, and without these it is like a ship trying to leave the harbor. Unless the ship has a destination: it will not be able to get out into open sea.Success is subjective and it is in entirely dependent what you want. You cannot let other people determine what your success is and what it means for you. Only you truly know what you want, what you desire from life and entrepreneurship is one of the ways in which you can achieve what you want.Use your goals as minimums and standards for what you personally want to achieve in life and then reverse engineer your activities around it. Use your goals as a bearing and have them incorporated into your actives and systems.If you want to travel the world, then figure out a way in which you can have a business purely from a laptop and make money no matter where you are in the world as long as you have an internet connection. This is what Simon from FreedomSurfer.com does, which is  "one of the internet’s most popular sites for digital nomads, perpetual travelers and location independent entrepreneurs." Simon, who runs the business describes himself as a "location independent entrepreneur. I have been traveling the world non-stop for many years, running my businesses remotely."To Simon, one of his successes is to travel the world, he is a digital nomad. If your goals are to meet new people, then how can you use that as a basis for a business? If you want to draw things, then how can you use that as a basis for a business?Define your own successes, then use that as a standard and bearing for your business. The level of success that you want should determine your actions and the systems that you create.When you are working towards your goals and towards an objective, then you are pursuing your own success and as you pursue your own success you achieve what you want in life. As you achieve what you want, you become happier and it spurs you on to achieve more, if you are so inclined.What is life without the things that you want? How happy is the person that deprives himself from achievement, or has never achieved what he wanted his entire life?Question of the day: what does success look like to you?