For somehow all our lives are ultimately unsuccessful, to the extent that we understand success: no external success, no effect, that is to say, no biological or sociological influence out there in the world, is guaranteed to outlive us or even to last forever. However, inner success, the inner fulfilment of life’s meaning, is something that, if at all, has been achieved once and for always.*
Viktor Frankl

Thinking that working eighteen hours a day, six days a week, when I first started out would help me become successful. Instead, I destroyed my marriage and almost my health.
Male, 68, Virginia

Happy the person who is able to
become the Self that brings them joy, to use
themselves, their talents, in ways that are fulfilling
and meaningful, which are making a
difference for others –
Achieving that do not end in retirement,
Each day being one for honing, stretching, adding, and
growing;
Not so we can ever say “Look at me,”
But only to breathe more deeply a
purer air.

*Viktor Frankl’s Yes to Life;
**Participant in American Regret Project, from Daniel Pink’s The Power of Regret.