Consider your situation right now…personally or professionally.
Have you achieved your goals?
Are you hustling with a company that you love?
Have you found a sense of inner peace…with all of the successes and failures and near-misses and disappointments and noise that are part of “peace?”
Hoping to Win
It’s funny how our early dreams of future lives…filled with hope for personal satisfaction and professional success…somehow never seem to get to an end point. It’s as if we can…never…quite…get…there…regardless of how hard we (have convinced ourselves that we continue to) try.
There is a tired, but accurate phrase, that says ‘hope is not a strategy.’ However, it appears to be one of the most common forms of self-evaluation, self-esteem, and overall measure of one’s worth.
I vote that we use hope as part of our thinking, but pursue a different path when it comes to actually getting things accomplished.
Deciding to Win
Now consider your situation again, but this time let’s use a different lens. One that is not based on workplace hustle, personal bliss, or finding the perfect job. Instead, let’s take an inventory of what you have accomplished over the last couple of years.
What bold moves have you made in your career?
How does it feel to be on the other side of major life decisions that caused so much stress, but are now behind you?
What else is different now, but you were in such a hurry to focus on the next thing that you’ve forgotten how much of a difference you’ve made?
How About You
As it turns out, winning is not a place, or title, or partner. Winning is what you decide it is. So, will it be the endless pursuit of…pursuing? Or, will winning be something entirely different for you?
I’d love to hear from you.
No Excuses.
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