Do you want a successful life? Here are the principles for how to achieve that, commonly and widely described as related to success.
Individual Merit
Face Facts: Subjective reality is for academics in specialized intellectual circumstances. Be "well grounded", base your world view on fact. Hold your paradigm as imperfect, prepare to improve your mental model to fit the facts. Be relentlessly empirical.
Improve Your Civics: Fit in to society. Obey the law. Understand your constitution and the basis of your law and culture. You must contribute to society and culture, not undermine it.
Improve Your Character: By default start with stoicism and the warrior code, as these are the traditional defaults for string character in the USA. Then be sure to look at individuation, as described by Jung and such.
Improve Your Craft: What is your profession? What is your purpose? Become good at that. If you don't know, look at Japanese Ikigai for help.
Improve Your Family: Do you have a spouse? Children? Sibligs or parents to care for? Do they have a home? Stability? Secure food? It is your job to contribute to improving your family.
Improve Your Health: The ancient greeks would add your body. You cannot have a good life without your health, so exercise and improve it.
Improve Your Communications: Can you express your position logicaly, can you debate? Are you persuasive? How is your vocabulary? Do you run and hide from differing opinions? Better communications is one of the primary predictors of success.