Struggling To Succeed

<p><b>1. Success is a Moving, Target<br/><br/></b>Be honest: What, really, is success for you?<br/><br/>Is it about launching a product or new business?<br/><br/>Is it about paying off debt and being financially free?<br/><br/>Is it about doing what you love so you can care for your family?<br/><br/>Or is it something that kinda, sorta changes as time goes by?<br/><br/>Too often, we chase an idea of success that’s patched together from what we’ve read or observed or think we should be aiming for. Sometimes it’s built from what we’ve learned, and sometimes it’s based on the things you think success can deliver for you, extrinsic factors like lifestyle, property, status, or vacations.<br/><br/><b>2. Success is a Judgement<br/><br/></b>We’re taught from a young age to elevate success and the successful. Those who create multi-million (or billion) dollar businesses are splashed over magazine covers for us to idolize. So, our success begins to be measured by what they accomplished versus our actual goals.<br/><br/><b>3. Success Isn’t Here, Now<br/><br/></b>It’s easy to dream about the moment you become successful. We all tend to fantasize about the big pay-off for all our hard work, the moment when it all comes together, and how it’ll feel to finally have made it. So it’s funny that this kind of success is always in the future. Just a few more weeks or months away. Just one more challenge or goal. Just a bit more work, and you’ll finally be successful.<br/><br/>But where does that leave the right now? Feels to me like pinning your hopes on being successful in the future diminishes your value in the right now. <br/><br/>Placing your sights on the future to a possible successful event can sometimes be a good motivator (in the short term at least), but you only get to get real success by giving your very best right now, without knowing how things will turn out. Even knowing that you may fail in the process.<br/><br/><b>4. Success Doesn’t Result in Happiness<br/><br/></b>Research shows that even if you have a successful c