{"id":1556,"date":"2024-11-19T00:27:48","date_gmt":"2024-11-19T00:27:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/life.bchenstudios.com\/?p=1556"},"modified":"2024-11-19T00:27:48","modified_gmt":"2024-11-19T00:27:48","slug":"what-does-measure-of-success-mean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/life.bchenstudios.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/19\/what-does-measure-of-success-mean\/","title":{"rendered":"What does &#8220;measure of success&#8221; mean?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>For whatever reason<br>I&#8217;ve always felt the need<br>to accomplish or achieve<br>whenever I&#8217;m doing anything<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I look at others<br>whom seem very happy<br>just living <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>all they seem to require<br>is for life to be good<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>good food<br>a good song, a good book, a good movie<br>Good company<br>whether it&#8217;s family, friends, pets<br>and it doesn&#8217;t even have to be all of the above<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>it&#8217;s possible they want more<br>but they seem happy with just <br>Life being good<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I wish I could be like that<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s seems my happiness<br>Is dependent on this drive to accomplish or achieve<br>which requires success <br>which is very easy to measure<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I either achieve or accomplish it<br>or I don&#8217;t<br>and I constantly don&#8217;t<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And at the end of the day<br>even if there is progress<br>it&#8217;s hard, for me, to find happiness in that<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>this is what I try to come to terms with<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>daily<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I don&#8217;t even feel like I was successful explaining that. sigh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For whatever reasonI&#8217;ve always felt the needto accomplish or achievewhenever I&#8217;m doing anything I look at otherswhom seem very happyjust living all they seem to requireis for life to be good good fooda good song, a good book, a good movieGood companywhether it&#8217;s family, friends, petsand it doesn&#8217;t even have to be all of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-random-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/life.bchenstudios.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/life.bchenstudios.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/life.bchenstudios.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/life.bchenstudios.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/life.bchenstudios.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1556"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/life.bchenstudios.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1557,"href":"https:\/\/life.bchenstudios.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1556\/revisions\/1557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/life.bchenstudios.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/life.bchenstudios.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/life.bchenstudios.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}