What you got wrong about success

Take out recognition from the equation, you’re left with the journey. Would you still keep going or give up? Are you doing it for you or for the recognition?

If it’s the latter, you’re probably going to be disappointed. Doing your work just for you actually gives you more chances of recognition, and of course happiness because you do not expect anything out from it. You already are fulfilled.

Who determines who’s successful and who’s not? Who determines what success means? Success can mean a lot of things other than money and a luxurious life.

Success can be being a good parent, a good partner, having good grades at school, getting a promotion, having time to spend with your loved ones, and for some others might be being financially free, having the freedom to go anywhere anytime, etc.

Don’t let “successful” people tell you what you should do with your life, what success should mean for you, and generally stop thinking about success. Don’t engage yourself in activities and projects just for the recognition and to impress others. Do it for yourself.

If you are anticipating the destination without enjoying the journey, you’ll most likely not be satisfied when you arrive there, or even worse you might never arrive. Learn to enjoy the process and do things for yourself and not to impress other people. You don’t need to prove anything to anyone. Live for you.

Doing that will anyways attract people to follow your work as authenticity and originality draw attention. When you don’t care what other people have to say, you tend to become happier. And people are more attracted to happy people.

Stop chasing recognition, stop chasing success, stop chasing followers, likes, money, and validation. Most people are after these things, and that sabotages the quality of their work.

Remove all expectations and you’ll see that you start getting better results while being happier at the same time. Your state of mind determines the results that you get in your life.

The thing that most people chase today is validation, and maybe that’s why they never feel fulfilled or successful. Success is a feeling anyway, not an achievement.

Nothing external will ever make you feel successful because “success” is actually the feeling of fulfillment which is generated by you only. If you are waiting for something external to trigger that feeling, then you are trapped and depended on other people’s opinion. When you detach yourself from others, and come to the point of fulfillment without needing something external to trigger it, you become a point of attraction that others want to follow. The quality of your work from then on will be high, because it’s your level of consciousness that determines the quality of the results that you get out of your work, and not how hard you work on it.

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