What is true "success"?
Success is all about making just enough so that you can live a bare middle-class living. Every study shows that people are not happier when they're more successful beyond a bare middle-class living. Then, fill in your life with as many activities that utilise your best skill as possible. I'll give you an example of my portfolio life. Twenty hours, my best skill is thinking on my feet. That's what I do. So, I look for as many different ways to think on my feet as possible while doing something that I believe is good for the world. So, I am a career counsellor for twenty hours a week and so I'm thinking on my feet all the time; helping people find their work which is very important. I host a radio show about work, a different venue for helping people solve their work problems, and I do it in a very different format. I do three-minute career makeovers, so I've got to work in a very tight time frame when people are calling into the show. I also have a very big artistic side; I was a professional pianist for years. Now, I'm an actor in plays; not for a living but it nurtures my soul. I'm directing the play same time next year. It's all on an almost-volunteer basis. I get paid five hundred bucks to do it; it's nothing, but it enables me to use that artistic side. I also have a very close relationship with my wife because I love her very much, and I've got a couple of very close friends. That's how I create this balance in my life. I also breed roses professionally, because it's something completely out of left field, and I have six commercial roses on the market. So, true success is doing a variety of different things utilising your best skills and different sides of who you are; that is the key to being content, not just successful.
