perhaps a broader view of right living is best

Service, gladly rendered, obligations squarely met, troubles well accepted or solved through co-operation and compromise, the knowledge that at home or in the world outside we are partners in a common effort, the well-understood fact that from the universal view all beings are equal in importance, the proof that love freely given surely brings a full return, the certainty we are no longer isolated and alone in self-constructed prisons, the surety we need no longer be square pegs in round holes but can fit and belong in the universal scheme of things - these are the permanent and legitimate satisfactions of right living for which no amount of pomp and circumstance, no heap of material possessions, could possibly be substitutes. True ambition is not what we thought it was. True ambition is the desire to live usefully and walk humbly through life.

- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, adapted