Me and you need to have a conversation. We need to
talk about success. What is success to you? Here
on my channel, we talk a lot about career success
and career advancement and how to navigate career
obstacles and all of this stuff. We talk a lot
about elevating and accelerating your career. But
there's been something missing. And I just wanted
to talk to you about today. Because I think if we
haven't defined this one thing, we're not going to
be able to get you where you want to go in your
career. One of the things that I love to do when I
talk to you or I talk to my clients, or anyone
really, I love to ask them what they think success
looks like, if I ask you to describe a successful
person, you're probably going to describe
something along the lines of a business person,
probably a business guy, probably wearing a very
expensive and very finely tailored suit. He's
probably in a glass office overlooking some
breathtaking cityscape. He has a perfect life, he
has a wife that stays at home, maybe he has a
yacht and a private plane, I don't know, he
probably works a lot. He has a lot of money. He
has a lot of power, but he does not have a lot of
time. The one thing missing that we don't often
think about is his emotional state. We just assume
because he's successful, he's happy. But I have a
question for you, my friend, if you were him, if
you are walking in his shoes, would you be happy?
Is that really what success looks like? For you? I
don't know about you. But the answer for me is no
success doesn't look like that. I think that's
amazing and admirable. And if that is your vision
of success, I want to help you get it. But maybe
your vision of success is that you climb a couple
rungs on the corporate ladder, and you have really
challenging work that you enjoy doing every day.
But you're still able to maintain work life
boundaries, so that your professional life and
your personal life are equally important and
equally successful. Sure, money is nice to have.
But at some point, how much of it you need. Maybe
you aspire to have billions of dollars, but maybe
you just want to have enough money in the bank
that you feel secure. And maybe that vision in the
office is actually your nightmare. And you don't
want to work towards that you want to be on side,
you want to be doing creative work, you want to be
doing something that isn't in corporate America,
that's totally cool. But there is one thing I know
for absolute Sure, no matter what success is to
you, if you don't know what it is, you're going to
struggle to achieve it. Because what happens
really often if you don't know what success is for
you, you end up chasing that vision, other
people's vision of success. And if you get there,
you wind up miserable. And I know because I've
been there I had the corporate success and so many
people want but to me, it was completely vacant,
because I wasn't doing what I actually wanted to
do with my career. And that impacts every single
area of your life. And now we're at that point in
the year that we're starting to both reflect on
the year that we had, and we're going to be
looking forward. And obviously there has been so
much change. And there's still a lot of volatility
in the world. We don't totally know what 2021 has
in store for us. But what I want you to do now
what I want you to take some time for today is to
answer that question, what is success to you?
Because when you know the answer to it, I'm going
to be able to help you get there. If you are
comfortable sharing it. I would love to hear what
your vision of success is down in the comments.
And once you know what it is and you are ready to
start building towards it, check out my glow up
your career workshop because it's going to give
you the building blocks that you need to succeed
no matter what success is to you. But even if you
do neither of those things, answer that question
and hold that with you get really, really clear on
this one thing because once you know this one
thing other pieces of the puzzle are going to
start falling into place. If you have any stuck
points, let me know I'm here to help. And I think
especially when it comes to your professional
life, once you know what success is the next step
is going to be building out your career vision for
the next few years and I have a video right here
that is going to help you do that. If you're ready
for it. It is there for you. If this video
inspires you to think about what success is to
you, I would love for you to give it a thumbs up
it really helps my channel and if you haven't
already consider subscribing so that I can help
you create that successful life you deserve. As
always, thank you so much for watching. I will see
you in the next video. Bye for now.