🙌 6 Questions to Develop Your Custom Definition of Success
What is your definition of success?
Most people are trying to live up to society’s definition of success without considering if this is the best option. Everything is in a constant change of flex. The red carpet will be laid out when you are honest, open, and flexible.
Ask others what success means to them, and you’re likely to hear a variation of these answers:
💰Fancy car or two – Mercedes, BMW, Lexus
💰Nice house – Big, with a swimming pool
💰Beach house or mountain getaway
💰Respectable corporate job – something worthy of bragging about
💰Attractive spouse
💰Kid in private school
Those things are okay if they’re of your choosing. But, if you take the time to think about it, your definition of success might be:
🌳Traveling the world
🌳Running your own business from a laptop
🌳Having adventures each day
🌳Wearing flip-flops for at least eight hours each day
🌳Humanitarin career
🌳No Children
Or maybe your idea of success is:
🌏 Living a simple life
🌏 Growing your own food
🌏 Working from home
🌏 Involved in local politics
🌏 Career forced on social and environmental justice
🌏 Homeschooling and spending a lot of time with your children
A person with the later 2 definitions of success would be miserable in the first scenario.
If you are not following your heart and intuition, you might find yourself accomplishing something that doesn’t honestly give you joy or success in the bigger picture.
Avoid disappointment by creating your custom definition of success!
Ask Yourself These 6 Questions to Develop Your Definition of Success
What legacy do I want to leave for my children and the world? Who do you want to remember you? How is your life contributing to future generations? Is it wealth and a vast business empire? Is your intention to leave the world a better place than you were born into? Is it essential to look back on a life full of adventures or accomplishments?
What financial resources do I want to leave behind? Is a lot of money most important? How can I live a meaningful life and not leave debt behind, but rather memories to last a lifetime inspiring others to share prosperity in meaningful ways? What will you be proud to leave behind?
What are my values? Most people have a vague notion of what’s important to them, but few take the time to think about it carefully. Pull out a piece of paper and make a list of your values. A lifetime spent living your values will be fulfilling.
What do I want to do? Make a list of all the things you want to see and do. List everything from hiking the Pacific Northwest Trail, living in Hawaii, or becoming the first president of my hometown. How will you have wanted to spend your time, and with who? Please write it down and put it in a safe place.
What type of life do I want to experience? You might desire a conventional marriage and three children with a white picket fence in the suburbs. Or you might like to live in a Manhattan condo by yourself and indulge in nightlife for the first 20 years of adulthood.
What will it take for me to feel successful? Imagine various scenarios and determine what would make you feel successful. Is it living in a cabin in the woods with few possessions and responsibilities, surrounded by Nature, clean air, potable water, starry nights, and earning a living as a freelance writer? Or is it living in a 15,000-square-foot penthouse, within walking distance from shopping, a dozen restaurants, and working for a corporation? Or living on a farmstead, stewarding the land, building, and earning a living growing food for your community. Imagine various careers and lifestyles. Which one feels like success to you?
What if no one else would ever know? The idea of owning a Ferrari or yacht might feel like success, but what if no one else would ever know? Would you still feel successful? An ideal version of success does NOT involve the opinions of others.
Search for a version of success
that’s meaningful to you, even if others are unaware of your
possessions and accomplishments.
There is no universal definition of success. It’s important not to fall into the pressures of trying to impress your friends and family. Develop a meaningful version of success for you, regardless of any shallow societal values. You might find that your version of success is much more meaningful and, in turn, more enjoyable and realistic to attain.
How do you define success? Your own definition will require you to like what you do and how you do it. Will you like the person you’ve become?
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