I started a business many years ago, and it ended up being moderately successful after a few years-- earned me and my family a decent living.

I was constantly being hit up by people who wanted me to expand and franchise and what have you, and they saw me as a complete "failure" and "slacker" because I wasn't all over that... well, I was making a good living from a reasonable amount of work. They kept selling me on the idea that I would be able to "afford" a mansion, and a luxury yacht and so on... without even ONCE pausing to ask what I might be interested in achieving/having.