I've heard Brett Wilson speak several times on the lesson he's learned in the process of becoming very successful by what most people would define as very successful.
Success and happiness are not the same thing. They seem quite compatible, but the processes for creating each are quite different.
The economic melt-down that we've all been going through as the "great recession" revealed the mass North American project of attempting to purchase happiness. This is the essence of unhappiness: people were doing work they hate for people they don't like and buying stuff they don't need with money they don't have to impress people who don't care.
Happiness seems to reside in good health, good relationships, a portfolio of cool things to do with my time and the good work that I might do to contribute to the quality of life for other people. I think Brett would agree. It's not money and it's not the stuff that money can buy. Those are fine as an accompaniment to a happy life and they are not what happiness is made of.
For help with the pursuit of happiness and the redefinition of success go to Keith Hanna at http://www.stepup.net/.
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