"Personal success" is similar to playing The Game. If you aren't aware of it, you're already succeeding, because you haven't defined it otherwise. Personally,

"Personal success" is similar to playing The Game. If you aren't aware of it, you're already succeeding, because you haven't defined it otherwise. Personally, I wish to stay happy moment-to-moment. I want to be 100% engaged in any thing that I do, even in the most mundane of tasks like putting on clothes, eating, shaving. I don't want my mind to leap ahead to fantasies of the next thing, as it doesn't improve my future enjoyment, and it rarely gives me any useful insight. And I don't want to burden myself with abstract thoughts of "is my life as good as it could be?" as that leads me to beat myself up for no reason. This does not conflict at all with the more material goals in life; rather, it puts them into proper perspective.