I have often wondered how different people measure success. I have often wondered how parents measure the success of their children.

Is success measured by the amount of money that a person makes? Or is it all about the location of residence? What about the position in a company where one works for? Is it about living overseas and earning a different currency and being able to send some back home?

For parents who have adult children who do not measure up to their standard level of success, should these children be booted out and given the exit signs?

I have written about “success formula” in this post. And I want to quote what I have written a year and a half ago:

“Come to think of it, it is not bad to have a diploma to fall back on when the adventures to “search the meaning of life” and “searching to find your own place under the sun” are foiled. But that doesn’t mean that that diploma may not be one’s ticket to be a successful person.

Drive. Hard work. Dedication. Right opportunities. Calculated risks. These are some of the formula to have the success one wants to achieve.”

To parents, if you want your children to succeed, guide them in a manner that it would be their dreams that will be achieved and not yours.

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