How do you define success?
How do you define success? What do you want to be when you grow up? When you are 40? When you are 60? We answer this question of defining success that gets phrased in different words since childhood.
Success gets defined by so many outcomes - by our profession, the schools we go to, the companies we work for, the promotions, the designations, the startups we build, the person we date and even what our children do.
The above may well be indicators of success, if you define success as those “outcomes” and that your soul finds energizing forms of expression in the process of achieving those outcomes. But
if you are not feeling energized in the process of achieving those outcomes OR
if you find yourself chasing success as what’s being defined by people around you OR
if you find yourself being judged by yourself as a lesser being for not having those outcomes OR
if you are not in a state of happiness after achieving those outcomes,
then it is time to take stalk of who you truly are, and what does success mean for you…
Who are you being in the world? What possibility can the next stage of your life be? Besides materialistic outcomes that can define success, there can be other dimensions to define success too. One possibility to succeed into could be to never say anything that cannot stand as the last thing you will ever say. How that might change the experience of people around you? Another possibility of defining success, as seen by Benjamin Zander, is how many shining eyes you have around you (see video below).
Who are you being in the world? What possibility can the next stage of your life be?