Success to me means something more than just financial success. What do I mean? I think people naturally are complicated beings with different intentions or desires. What could be the most important thing to achieve for me, may not necessarily be another person’s top priority.
I could desire to help the poor in any way I can as a way of serving God, my friend’s dream could be to create a multi-million dollar company. When both of us get the desired results in our respective fields then that is success. I have succeeded in achieving what I wanted and so has friend.
This is explained even clearer in the Bible where it is written that the Holy Spirit gives different gifts to different people. However, money does play a very important part in our lives. For most of the dreams to be realised there is some amount of money that has to be spent in addition to other necessary inputs. I think you rightly put it in one of the articles that what is bad/sinful is the love for money and not money itself.
That can explain your being inclined to focus more on the aspect of financial success than any other. How does one measure success? I think one should simply compare the objectives one had when formulating his/her dream with the results achieved so far and see whether or not one is on course and make some necessary adjustments where possible.
Thank you for giving me the opportunity to express my opinion, I am a regular reader of your inspiring articles. The good meaning people around the world with burning desire for great achievements need your contributions. God bless you.