How do you measure success?

[Retribution Reptiles]

I want to know everyone honest opinion on this topic. When looking at other breeders to either buy geckos from or just has competition in the hobby how do you calibrate their success compared to your own?

Personlly i don't care if they have every new sub species or designer combo morph it's all about the respect. PRIME example. Marcia, a dear friend and great person. She has proved that money doesn't make you successful. She is very successful sells out her geckos and her phone is always ringing.

It's not due her having some crazy triple recessive morph with double dom cross and all that garbage but she has vast experience as well as a great person to shoot the....yeah. Marcia has taken many o' breeders under her wing and taught them the ropes. A very classy lady that is just as modest.

I personally can't thank her enough for the times she has helped me understand anything regarding the animals we love.

But anyways, how do you the person reading this measure success?

Thanks,

Ryan

 

[breanna-banana13]

i thought i'd chime in on this even though i've never bred reptiles ( i have had a litter of guinea pigs before). But I was thinking about it and I think you can consider yourself successful when you can produce healthy offspring. Animals (reptile especially) UNLIKE HUMANS p) will not bring offspring into the world unless they are in optimal conditions. that being said if an animal will continually produce healthy, viable offspring while in your care i would consider myself not only lucky, but a success as well. that means that the animal not only feels safe, is well fed/cared fore, but it also feels "comfortable" enough to bring offspring into the world.

*just my little ramble,,,im at work and wrote this in chunks so it prolly makes no sense

 

[thestack510]

For myself when it comes to my Leos, I measure success by my happiness and sense of achievement. I have yet to sell a Leo, but I gave one to my cousin for her birthday and she lights up just talking about her, that is success to me. Money is good, but happiness is better.

 

[acpart]

I would imagine that an individual may measure success when considering themselves by whether or not they have met whatever goal they have set. That could be simply producing healthy animals, or producing a certain number of animals, or producing more animals than anyone else, or even making a certain amount of money. A person's goals could also change either because they realize that their original goal is not attainable, or because they have changed their idea of what the goal should be and have become a different kind of person.

It's a bit more complicated when trying to measure success of someone else, and even moreso when someone is trying to compare 2 people and decide which one is more "successful". Often the answer has to do with what an individual would consider "success" in themselves.

Aliza

 

[T&KBrouse]

Working in the industry I do, I can't help but get a "skewed" view of the deeper meaning of life, so to say. One important thing I have learned is to never, ever measure your own success by someone else's accomplishments.
You may never be a Millionaire. You may never run a marathon. But when you are the best the Creator has made you to be, then you're successful.

 

[Gregg M]

Well everyone sees success differently... It really depends on what you are doing and what your goal is... Success is not always about respect if that is not your personal goal... On the flip side, Success will not be based on how much money you make in a year if that is not a goal of yours...

At the end of the day, it does not matter as long as you met your goal and did not hurt anyone or anything getting there...

Point being, you can not measure anyones success against your personal goals...