When is someone successful?

Most people think when they read the term ‘successful people‘ about people that are successful in business, make lots of money and are wealthy. There is more.

Searching at Google with the term ‘successful people‘ generates 1.410.000 pages explaining the habits you should have or not, Top 10’s, top 5’s Traits of successful people, etc. What I am intersted in, is what makes someone succesful; is it just a part of the person that is successful, or is the whole person successful. Can I be successful or am I already successful?

“We surely love and admire all the persons who incarnated the true, the good, the beautiful, the just, the perfect, the ultimately successful. And yet they also make us uneasy, anxious, confused, perhaps a little jealous or envious; a little inferior, clumsy. They usually make us lose our aplomb, our self-possession, our self-regard..”