What is your metric of success?

What do you want from life? Who do you want to be / grow into? How will you know when you have achieved your definition of "success"?

I think this idea of envisioning what your life will look like, how you will feel, who/what surrounds you, is a useful technique for first figuring out what you think you want, and then using this vision to figure out a path to make this dream a reality.

For me, I want calmness and happiness, and I also like predictability (some might call this boring-ness). However, many of us realize that life is actually very unpredictable. So in those times, I think it's important to take the unknowns one step at a time, and not think too far in advance because that becomes overwhelming, which then becomes paralyzing.