What Is Success? Here’s a Better Definition

**Great article we found on Inc.com.**

If you believe success is simply making (or having) a lot of money, you may be setting yourself up for failure.

I’m often amazed at how many people define success as making (or having) a lot of money.

It’s very strange, because many of the people who think this way are harried, stressed and, frankly, pretty miserable.

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The way I see it, everybody’s definition of success can be mapped on a simple grid, with one axis being the amount of money that you have and the other being the amount of happiness in your life, like so:

The way a lot of people think, success should be defined as follows:

To my mind, however, a much more sensible definition of success is:

There are two reasons why this definition is better.  First, there’s no point to being rich if you’re not enjoying yourself.  Second, you’re more likely to get rich if you’re happy doing whatever you’re doing.

Being unhappy, of course, can definitely spur people to action.  However, the action should be pointed at trying to become happier–not trying to become richer, in the rather naive belief that being rich, in and of itself, will make you happy.

Needless to say, if you’re struggling to put food in your mouth and keep a roof over your head, none of this applies.  When you’re just trying to survive, you’re not thinking about happiness.

Even so, I’d rather be poor and happy than rich and miserable.

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Of course, all things considered, I’d prefer to be rich and happy rather than poor and happy. However, I believe that it’s easier to get rich if you start from a place of being happy–with what you’re doing and why you’re doing it.

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Fast Growth for Healthy Snacks

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Inc. 5000 applicant Snikiddy, founded by Mary Schulman and her mother, is finding success in the health food market with its snacks.

After nearly 10 years working in financial institutional sales, Mary Schulman decided she wanted to give back. She also wanted her family to have healthy snacks but didn’t see many options that met her healthy and tasty criteria. So in late 2006, Schulman and her mother founded Snikiddy.

Schulman grew up in a healthy household, courtesy of her mother’s particular shopping style. “We had this crazy circle bread in our lunch that was made with only sprouted grains and things of that nature,” Schulman says. Her mother’s healthy eating habits were passed down to her by her own mother, Schulman’s grandma, one notorious for packing lunch boxes filled with local produce and simple foods.

So notorious, in fact, that her children became known as “the snikiddy kids.” In actuality they were “persnickety eaters,” according to a teacher. But the kids used their own version of the word, snikiddy, and it stuck. They donned the nickname with pride.

The health-conscious snack food company started off with cheese puffs and cookies. But despite the deliciousness of their sweet treats, the cookie market wasn’t showing the growth Schulman wanted, so the product was cut. “It was a decent business under probably a lot of standards,” Schulman says, “but we weren’t seeing the tremendous growth we were seeing from the salty snack arena, and we really wanted to be a growth company.” From that point on Snikiddy honed in on the salty snack category.

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