What is success? What is the measure of success? What determines when you are successful and when you have failed?

@Gashoroge
What if that person who stays next to his office and has car justifies having such a car because he has to go check his business over lunch time and in the evening before he goes back home... you cant expect him to walk home over lunch time,pick the car,check the business,drive back home sot hat he can walk to work,would you? Or he's got kids to drop at school

Success is very relative. Why do we work so hard/smart? To be happy.... does being happy have to be a standard thing - that i have to be happy when i achieve what Djinn has achieved? No. If the LR 4.6 makes me happy,why should i not buy it because of what others will think of me and my priorities? Should i conform with what the society thinks is the route to success? No. What if i have my prospects of making it big in life and am working towards it but in the meantime,i have my dream car and rented a house in Kile?? Whats wrong with that? Well,this doesnt mean this is what i,as a person do,but there are many things we do not understand when it comes to people's lifestyles.

Some deals are like glass. Sometimes it's better to leave them broken than try to hurt yourself putting it back together.

hii ni nini sasa? Ati ukiwa na gari @35 umesucceed!! Aiii,never heard of this before.....

me thought that the damn thing is a tool,like one had to have a wheelbarrow back in the village as a means of ferying coffee to the factory; lakini haikuwa indicator of success!! Kuna wengine hawakuwa nayo but were able to get their damn coffee to the factory on the backs/heads

@mwabili........you may have to redefine what success is!!

If you have money that you expect to start using in five years,it now belongs in stocks.

Happiness and financial success are two very distinct matters. I understand the discussion here to be on financial independence.

Basing major financial decisions on 'feelings of happiness' has for generations sent many people down the wide road that leads to financial hell. We must correct the notion of making feel-good instead of rational choices. It is the very reason why Americans (and now Kenyans) are suffocating under the weight of credit card debt.

I drive a gari and have nothing against owning a 4.6...hope to get one someday. My point is that I don't think a car should be used as my benchmark for financial success.

But then again,it is a free country so to each his own. If the '4.6 is it!' for you before doing all else...hey,knock yourself out.

Real men by this period have undergone 1st life stage.They are broke cause they are busy raising their 2-3 kids.They actually narate to the kids they once had a car.You struggle upto 40yrs and maybe the tuplots one had invested appreciates.The kids are all going to school hence the proper time to buy another cause mostly it will be cheaper dropping the kids and mother at work.Otherwise @35 and no family or kaplots you are in the wrong direction.I say real men cause they don,t shy away from getting into Mathrees with their wifys.

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@35 and you don't drive? Are you a success or failure. Neither! A car is not a measure of success. And what is the measure of success/failure anyway. It relative. Even without a car,you are a success to some people. And even with a car,you are a failure to others. You are only a failure after failure has been accepted in your mind.

The plans of the diligent lead surely to plenty,but those of everyone who is hasty,surely to poverty.