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Does your success bring you any happiness?

Motivation, Entrepreneur February 15th, 2008

14 Responses to “Does your success bring you any happiness?”

1. Recliners Says:
   February 15th, 2008 at 7:17 pm

   Happiness is a state on mind, not about how much money you have. I have seen a really rich person who is very unhappy because he is dying of cancer and a begger who is having a wonderful time playing with his little daughter and their happiness was evident in their laughter.

2. Terence Chang Says:
   February 15th, 2008 at 7:25 pm

   @Recliners:

   You are right. Money usually don’t bring a long term happiness. When you have money, you either worry about how to spent it our worry about how to make more. That’s exactly how I feel about happiness.

   Do you have something to share?

3. CatherineL Says:
   February 16th, 2008 at 5:56 am

   Hi Terence - I feel so guilty that I haven’t found a pic to send you yet. I think your idea is wonderful.

   Happiness and success are closely related and I don’t believe you can have one without the other.

   Dr Elizabeth Kubler Ross worked with the dying and she said it is not the things people have done that they regret when they’re on their deathbeds; it’s the things they didn’t do.

4. Terence Chang Says:
   February 16th, 2008 at 6:57 am

   @CatherineL:

   Not to worry. I know you will find one eventually. I think you are right on the happiness and success. However, I will add achievement in front of happiness. Personally I think there is an order among the three. Achievement, Happiness and Success. With achievement, you will feel happy. With the both achievement and happiness, you can definitely say you have success.

   Dr. Elizabeth is correct. I was a pathology researcher in the hospital. I know how those patient felt.

5. Dining Tables Says:
   February 16th, 2008 at 8:07 am

   I shall visit your new blog and offer you my opinion that you have sought, by giving a famous quotation. I am not very good at uploading photographs, but I shall try when I have some really good ones to send you.

6. Dining Tables Says:
   February 16th, 2008 at 8:14 am

   You and pathology research! Wow you are something yet Terence. Do share some of your experiences with us.

7. Terence Chang Says:
   February 16th, 2008 at 8:16 am

   @Dining Tables:

   Your comments are always go straight into my Akismet Spam folder. So I have to dig into over 30 spam comment/day to find your post. If you have lovely happy photo on the Internet, just sent me your happy story and the links through email at smile @ smilemyday.com (Please remove the space around @ sign).

   I will go from there! Thank you for participation!

8. Terence Chang Says:
   February 16th, 2008 at 9:02 am

   @Dining Tables:

   That’s right. I was doing DNA Sequencing, Cancer research, Molecular biology in the pathology department in the hospital. You are not the only one interested in my past and background. My life could be a weird case study. I think I should rewrite my about page sometime. Keep tuning in.

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   February 17th, 2008 at 3:27 am

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10. Jenz Iggo Says:
    February 19th, 2008 at 11:12 pm

    Hi,

    As you mentioned, achievement, happiness, success comes in that queue but again all of those are tangled together and people interpret each differently.

    Success and happiness - closely tied up, again I agree with CatherineL. However it can be small successes and small happiness that keep us going for the real big one. The big goal is really something, but dont forget about this current moment to enjoy and serve.

    I think we need to FEEL successful. Success comes in various shapes and sizes. Do something worthwhile, complete a meaningful task, and enjoy the good feeling. That is what I do in small steps towards my dream.

    p/s: I love your smile project!!

11. Terence Chang Says:
    February 19th, 2008 at 11:24 pm

    @Jenz Lggo:

    I agree with you.We need to feel successful. We build our success one step at a time. Sudden success won’t last long. The happiness won’t last long either. Achieve is built piece by piece. Take your step slowly and build your happiness for a life time.

    That’s why I am building the happiest blog in the world, I want to see why people are happy with their life. Some great smile will help me to forget the sadness and motivate me to over come them. Eventually, I will live happier.

    Would like to join me and share your happiness with me?

    Thank you for stopping by!

12. Jon Do Says:
    March 10th, 2008 at 1:59 pm

    You can have them both … but more important is the happiness. With money you cannot buy the happiness but you can sustain it

    Regards

13. Terence Chang Says:
    March 11th, 2008 at 7:49 am

    @Jon Do:

    I am sure your site can bring more happiness.

14. Dave Owen Says:
    April 30th, 2008 at 6:16 am

    My grand daughter was born with a life threatening disease and we were told she would not live 6 months. She has defied the odds and recently celebrated 5 years.

    The point is that we never know how long we have so we must enjoy every minute, like she does.

    We all only have the present moment, we are not promised anything more. So, enjoy the present and all that you have.

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