Is your idea of success external to you?

In this post Nicolas Cole argues that many people are not successful because their definition of success itself is flawed. People tend to associate success with external things such as climbing a mountain or receiving an award or trophy. The problem with this is that success becomes a title, and once you have climbed one mountain to maintain such a title you have to keep climbing mountains.

But isn’t true success from within? Cole’s goes on to say that “instead of seeking validation, what you need to seek is exploration”.  Giving success an internal meaning can result on focusing on the feeling of success and the journey along the way rather than end result.

The key takeaway here being value yourself for who you are and not the title. Fall in love with the process rather than the results.

So how do you view success?

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