To a small business owner, to an employee--to anyone--there is only one way to determine success.

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That's right. One. No kaleidoscope, no cornucopia, no "we're all snowflakes," no we're all individuals.

One.

Sure, success in business and in life means different things to different people. (Very different things in some instances; check out some of the comments on this article about the beliefs of remarkably successful people.)

And success should mean different things. Whether or not you are successful depends on how you define success, and on the tradeoffs you are willing to not just accept but embrace as you pursue that definition of success. We can have a lot but we can't have everything.

I get that, but I also get this. To a small business owner, to an employee--to anyone--there is only one way to determine success. The answer lies in answering one question: How happy am I?

That's it. How successful you are is based solely on the answer to that question.

How happy are you?

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