You are not singular. You have to be a good father, child, professional, person and so on. There are multiple balls to juggle. Focusing on one ball only won't give happiness.
Invest in money and memories. Travel around and do stuff that creates memory.
As you progress professionally, your technical skills lose their value. Your leadership skill, communication skill, strategic skills and personality impacts the most.
If you build a positive perception of yourself in your environment, people will admire and believe you easily. It takes years of hard work to build that. It's integral.
While creating such an image, don't try to be somebody you are not. Reflect on your true self and be authentic every time. If you smoke, embrace it. If you don't smoke, tell it proudly.
When you reach a height of success and even people have a positive perception of you, your feet may fly above the ground. Try traveling outside your area of fame (A place where people don't know you) often to stay grounded.
It's the team and administration that choose you as the CEO. Their belief in you is achieved by you building a positive perception of yourself.
After your success, If you have people admiring you and a community, give back something. Give back knowledge of your success.
Ingredients of happiness and goal. Choose the quantity according to your own needs:
Family and Friends
Money
Health(Physical, Mental, Emotional)
Power, Status and Authority
Relation with Self and God
Decide what satisfies your need the most and see your core strength go for it.
Yes, you can go to foreign countries. The thing is if you can return and implement the ideas you learned there in your own country or not.
Leading means not running a company properly until you are there. Good leadership is building leaders. So, when you leave, the company still runs because of your previous contribution to people.