Well, I’m nearly at 100 subscribers. I set 100 as a goal so I’m very pleased! If you are enjoying / looking forward to / getting provoked by the posts please can you help me hit 100 and share the blog.
So that’s my little bit of (nearly) success this week!
We all have our own success stories. It might not feel like it sometimes, like there is some external source deciding if we are successful or not, but really, when it comes down to it, we write our own success story.
My success would be your failure.
Your failure would be my success.
Do you even know what success looks like for you?
I had a moment a few months ago when I was sharing my failures last year. She was coach and she was sharing what she’d done, how she’d had a successful year, kind of passing on her wisdom. It was only half way through the chat I realised that maybe I hadn’t failed at all, but my success story was very different.
I’d made more money (because we just can’t quite move away from money as a success factor) I’d had more free time (A LOT more free time, not by choice!), I’d even got a few ‘one day I will’ things off my list. I just didn’t see any of them as success, because I’d failed to hit my targets, and so that was my failure story.
I was missing out on feeling fulfilled and satisfaction (which the other coach had overflowing!).
So, the challenge today is to think about what our success story is? Is it helping or hindering? Can we look beyond that story to see other successes which then maybe let us be actually Ok with where we are today?
eleanor
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I judge my success on whether I'm experiencing a lot of joy, have time for creative pursuits and have time/money to do some traveling each year. I do set money goals but don't get down on myself if I don't reach them all. I set them and work toward them and get closer than those who set none at all. I *NEVER* compare my money situation or "success" to others. That would make me miserable. If I'm happy, free and loved, then I'm succeeding.
Congrats on your nearly 100.
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