You must define your own success
Quotes that support this principle
“So why do you do what you do? That’s the question you need to answer. Stare at it until you can. Only then will you understand what matters and what doesn’t. Only then can you say no, can you opt out of stupid races that don’t matter, or even exist.” — Ryan Holiday
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“Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When you don’t know what harbor you’re aiming for, no wind is the right wind.” — Seneca
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“Give me a stock clerk with a goal, and I will give you a man who will make history. Give me a man without a goal, and I will give you a stock clerk.” — J. C. Penny
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“Decide what kind of life you actually want, then say no to everything which isn’t that.” — Anonymous
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“How do you grade yourself?” — Derek Sivers
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“if you don’t feel some kind of drive in your life, if you feel like you are wandering and meandering through the world, then it’s time to assess.. what would I like to do in the world?” — Jocko Willink
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“I just started weeping, because I realized that I was completely and utterly trapped. And that I would never be able to walk away from that amount of money, ever in my life. And any dream that I had of living a life with purpose and meaning, and being an adventurer, and somebody that would actually take risks and live a life that’s deliberate and intentional, those were gone. When you see your life as scripted out and you recognize that this is not anything I will - why am I doing this? This guy that is handing me his firm – I don’t even want to be him. I don’t envy his life. Maybe this was never for me to begin with. And maybe if I don’t leave right now, I’m going to be that dude for the rest of my life. And I just took the elevator down 28 stories and that was it. And ever since then, I decided that this life was going to be mine. And it was going to be wildly, flamboyantly my life. When you recognize that this life is yours, and that it is your one and only, and when that ceases to be esoteric bullshit, when that’s not hippie poetry anymore, when the pragmatism of that statement seeps directly in your bones and you recognize that this is it, everything changes.” — AJ Leon
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