How Do You Define Success?

Success can mean many things… including the first egg from the henhouse.

Of the many topics and points I could have included in Lean Out, I felt this was an important concept that most people agree with cognitively but don’t often practice in real life. In fact, I also included as one of the lessons in my new Lean Out Confidence Course. If you like the reading of Chapter 8 (below), go check out the course for more depth on this and other important topics. (Use the code CONFIDENT to get $100 off all course options!)

Here’s one of my life secrets:

You don’t have to have it all, do it all, be it all, or buy it all to be accomplished and successful.

How about you figure out what success means for you?

There are an infinite number of ways to define success, yet we often use the common metrics of money, status, titles, etc. to define success. A lot of this to do with our tendency to compare ourselves to others, which of course goes back to primitive times when fitting in meant surviving.

In Chapter 8 of Lean Out, I talk about identifying your values, gauging your priorities and how they might change with the seasons, and what it means to be a true leader. I also share the story of Cheri, a good friend of mine who is still leaning out in new ways to this day. And none of them involve status or traditional success metrics.