Re: whats your definition of success?
Depends. Was Buddha motivated? Was he successful? Was he happy?
I didn’t expand on it but you have to balance motivation with contentment. Striving for better in your relationships or your career is perfectly fine, but needing to do so, deriving your happiness from it, can be detrimental. The sad thing is that some of the most “successful” people are not always happy or content, and that’s what usually drives them. I like to think you can balance it but who knows, maybe it’s a choice between being content and being happy.