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#RedefineSuccess

brightwanderer

I think a lot about how we as a culture have turned “forever” into the
only acceptable definition of success.

Like... if you open a coffee shop and run it for a while and it makes you
happy but then stuff gets too expensive and stressful and you want to
do something else so you close it, it's a “failed” business. If you write a
book or two, then decide that you don't actually want to keep doing
that, you're a “failed” writer. If you marry someone, and that marriage
is good for a while, and then stops working and you get divorced, it's a
“failed” marriage.

The only acceptable “win condition” is “you keep doing that thing
forever”. A friendship that lasts for a few years but then its time is
done and you move on is considered less valuable or not a “real”
friendship. A hobby that you do for a while and then are done with is a
“phase” - or, alternatively, a “pity” that you don't do that thing any
more. A fandom is “dying” because people have had a lot of fun with it
but are now moving on to other things.

I just think that something can be good, and also end, and that thing
was still good. And it's okay to be sad that it ended, too. But the idea
that anything that ends is automatically less than this hypothetical
eternal state of success... I don't think that’s doing us any good at all.

Redefine success on your own terms, not by corporate metrics that don't measure your worth. 📏 #RedefineSuccess #YourWorth

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During this episode of The Leadership Toolkit podcast, Mike Phillips discusses a new approach to winning; it starts with redefining success. Redefining success means shifting our mindset from focusing on what we didn't achieve to celebrating our accomplishments, no matter how small.

Don't let self-defeatist attitudes hold you back. Instead, analyze your successes and learn from them to replicate your achievements.

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