Success is not growing up to please your mother and father by entering the field that they wanted you to enter. Success is not doing a specific job, going to a superior school, majoring in a special field, joining a prestigious club, driving a particular car, living in a high-profile neighborhood or holding important volunteer positions because others think that defines success. Success is definitely not buying things with money you do not have, in order to impress people who don't care. You cannot let success be defined by the world or those around you. It can only be defined by how well you use the gifts God gave you.
Success is found from within.
I struggled for years in a family business. I hated it because I was fighting someone else's battles and living someone else's dreams. I was successful in the eyes of the world, because I was carrying on the family businesses. By the providence of God, I started making changes. People around me scoffed behind my back, pronouncing me a failure for selling one business and closing another.