How often have you desired success but found failure? Well, who set the bar of success? You? Someone else? Or, did you not consider that the bar moves and you are the one who gets to set it? Let's explore that bar.
Are you successful? I hope you say yes. The time and the effort that you put into your work, your craft, your passion, your play, your dreams, is breeding success. I worry that the world sets up success as being something that very few get to feel. And maybe if we commit, if we work, maybe we too will be one of the few.
Have you ever stopped doing something because you thought that you were never going to succeed? Why would you ever set the bar of success above where you are right now? Success is a sliding scale. If your line of success is going to deny you worth, happiness, excitement and the dream that started you down this path, why would you want success in the first place?
Take the next two minutes here to consider that. Are you at a place where you are considering giving up on something that you are still willing to work at. Lower the bar of success and then watch, over time, how your commitment to this thing that you love regardless, begins to become more and more successful.
Are you successful? I hope you say yes. I hope that you see that the time and the effort that you put into your work, your craft, your passion, your play, your dreams, is breeding success. I worry, though, that the world sets up success as being something that very few get to feel, that very few get to achieve and enjoy, and that most of us are in this constant path of striving for more, striving for difference, striving for doing things the way that things have been done. And maybe if we commit, if we work, if we have the will and the fight and the fire, that maybe we too will be one of the few.
Have you ever stopped doing something because you thought that you were never going to succeed? Have you given up on an idea or a project? Maybe a goal? Because where you were right now was not where you thought you were supposed to be? According to the path to that, either you have set out for yourself, or maybe someone else has set out for you. What if your success, right, your achieving that end goal is on the other side of you, shifting your expectations? Personally, I'll use the story of a little social movement that I oversee called five k.
Everyday conversations. Every day for about the last 600 days, we have held space for daily conversation accompanied by movement. This is open to strangers. It's open to anyone and everyone who ventures to see value in connecting with someone that they do not know. For 600 days, we've held space. There are days that we've had dozens of people arrive for our daily meeting. And there have been days that no one has shown up. There have been times where we've had more and more people share interest and excitement in what we are creating.
And there have been weeks and months where it seems like no one is interested in this novel idea anymore. Our line of success has always been this. If we hold space each day for people to engage in conversation, if they wish to do so, then we are successful. What do you think? Is it a feat? Is it worthy of a first place or a gold medal? Or standing on the top of the mountain? If no one shows up, we say yes. And that's allowed us to continue to grow and progress. So think about your pathway, right?
If all of a sudden you get to the place where you go, you know what? I'm not making it. I'm not doing enough. We're not growing. We're not learning. We're regressing. We've been stuck. Or still. So you decide to stop or give up, not because you no longer have interest, not because you no longer have passion. Not because you no longer want to work at it, but because you are deeming that you are an unsuccessful being, that you as the manager or the leader of this idea being put into the world, you are not worthy of continuing on.
Success is malleable. Success is a sliding scale. If you attach success to your dreams, to your passions, to your work, to your worth, why would you ever set the bar of success above where you are right now? It does not mean that we do not strive, that we do not look ahead as to where something may grow and go. But if your line of success is going to deny you worth, happiness, excitement and the dream that started you down this path in the first place, why would you ever want success in the first place?
Take the next two minutes here to consider that. Sa and so I challenge you today to consider the line that you are setting for success. Is it too high? Are you at a place where you are considering giving up on something that you are still willing to work at, that still fills your cup, that still makes you happy, that still fires your dreams? Lower the bar of success and then watch, over time, how your commitment to this thing that you love regardless, begins to become more and more successful.
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