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How Do You Define Success?

March 3, 2015 | By | Add a Comment

How do you define success, for yourself as well as others? Success is exciting and feels powerful – operating with high standards can be exhilarating. Reaping the rewards of success in business opens opportunities that money and time can afford. Oftentimes, we define success as our status relative to others. However you define it, success is like an aphrodisiac for the mind. What does success mean to you? In my experience, many people define success too narrowly. They forget about strengths they have that are not being used to reach their goal of “being successful”. They forget about being successful in their relationships or marriage, and as being a successful parent. Even in their business, many people define success narrowly, […]

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Executive Life Coaching: From Success to Fulfillment and Back Again

February 28, 2011 | By | Add a Comment

[this is a reprint of my monthly Musing I published last week] What’s the definition of success? Is this person successful: Self-made multi-million dollar net worth by age thirty, CEO of a company for which you led the IPO by age thirty-five, in good health, solid marriage, active social life, vacation home, expensive European cars in the garage, the time and money to play and vacation in nice settings? Maybe there isn’t one definition for success. Perhaps we all have to determine for ourselves what it is. If so, what’s your definition? I used to be the guy in the first paragraph. I thought I was successful. The problem I ran into was I always wanted more of all of […]

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Executive Life Coaching: Moving From Success to Fulfillment and Back Again

February 22, 2011 | By | Add a Comment

What’s the definition of success? Is this person successful: Self-made multi-million dollar net worth by age thirty, CEO of a company for which you led the IPO by age thirty-five, in good health, solid marriage, active social life, vacation home, expensive European cars in the garage, the time and money to play and vacation in nice settings? Maybe there isn’t one definition for success. Perhaps we all have to determine for ourselves what it is. If so, what’s your definition? I used to be the guy in the first paragraph. I thought I was successful. The problem I ran into was I always wanted more of all of it. A bigger condo in the mountains, more money in the bank, […]

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