How do you measure success? How do you measure success in life? Much will depends on what we want in life. The moment we get what we want in life, that's a successful life.

To put it more accurately, that is success in at that point of life.Our goal in life changes, at one point in life, money might be the most important thing in life.At other point in life, family might be the most important thing in life.At some other point, a quiet, peaceful and predictable life might be the most important thing in life.

So a successful life is not measured when we are breathing our last breath.A successful life is measured on a moment by moment basis.The moment that we get what we aim for, that is successful life at that point of life.

For example, a school girl aims to score well in examination, well enough to win the scholarship.So she works very hard and finally wins the scholarship.That is success.For our dear school girl, she has a successful life in term of academic achievement.

Obviously once she completes formal education, her goal changes, and with it, the measurement of successful life changes.

While many of us refuse to admit that we use wealth as measurement, we are quick to conclude that so-and-so is successful because he/she upgrades to a bigger and nicer house than ours.

So is wealth, in particular money, a good indicator of success? To a certain extent, it is. For example, the best runner in the marathon gets the bigger prize (in term of monetary reward) than the second best runner.

So in this case, money is a measurement for success.Of course, money is only a measurement in the short run.In the long run, the record setting is the ultimate goal of every professional marathon runner.

Wealth is obviously not the only indicator of a successful life. All of us would agree that having a healthy body and a healthy mind is another indicator of success, especially when we are able to maintain our good health despite living beyond a century.

In life, there are many regrets.There are many things we should do and we didn’t.There are many things we did when we should not.All of us have regrets, many regrets that we cannot undone and atone for.

Even Almighty God has moment of regrets.“And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.” (Genesis 6:6)

Having regrets should not stop us from declaring our lives as successful.Since we cannot change the past, all we can do is to live with the past and aim for a better tomorrow.Bear in mind that even God did not undo the past.He instead took the action to cleanse the wicked world in Noah’s days.

The only way that stops us from having a successful life is this: If we drift through life, always jealous and envious of others, yet do not know what we want, we definitely will not have a successful life.An aimless survival is hardly successful no matter how you measure it.