{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"CA091: A new measure of success","description":"A new measure of success\nHow do you quantify success? What is it you actually\nmeasure?\nShould it be statistics, figures, numbers? Or how about the\neffort put in to achieving it?\nMaybe it could be a combination of these, rather like those\nschool reports where you get a grade for achievement and a score\nfor effort.\nOr should we more concerned with experiences rather than\nnumbers?\nStatistics are certainly the easiest and most obvious way to\nmeasure success. With money wealth, income being one of most\npopular ways for people to measure their own or others\u2019\nsuccess.\nBut it\u2019s all relative. What constitutes a measure of success in\nmonetary terms fluctuates according to age, the circles you move\nin, geographical location and your time in history.\nMoney can be measure in it\u2019s own right or as an indication or\nmeasure of success. It\u2019s not necessarily the money per se\nthat\u2019s important to measure, but it\u2019s rather the way some people\nchoose to quantify their success. The success is what drives them,\nnot the money, but income is a useful indicator and measure of\nthat.\nThat\u2019s all very well and yes numbers and effort are a good way\nto measure anything, but let\u2019s not ignore the role of feelings and\nthe experience itself. Otherwise we run the danger of seeing\nsuccess as one-dimensional and we\u2019re not one-dimensional beings, so\nif we do this we fail to capture the true meanings of success.\nSo how are we measuring success?\nDuring my reflection time recently (a part of my Changeability\nmind-work where I write whatever comes to mind during meditation or\nvisualisation) I came to a realisation as I was musing on this very\nsubject.\nI realised that for much of my life I\u2019ve equated success with\nvalidation. Validation for what I\u2019m not sure, but it\u2019s something to\ndo with feeling valued and wanting to be seen to be good enough or\nfor people to think I\u2019m good at doing what I\u2019m doing.\nThis was quite a revelation! I was interested in what it meant.\nDid I see my self-worth wrapped up in other people\u2019s idea of my\nworthiness? I don\u2019t think of myself as someone who worries too much\nabout what others think of me, or let it stop me doing things. But\nmaybe it\u2019s not so much about what others think, but more that I\nwant to be seen as good enough so I think I\u2019m good enough\nmyself. \nThere\u2019s a lot more to be said about this and how it shows up in\nwhat I do and don\u2019t do. You can hear all of this in much more\ndetail in episode 91 of The Changeability\nPodcast. \nA new measure of success\nIf you haven\u2019t got time to listen to the episode now (and it\u2019s\nquite a short episode for us) here\u2019s a flavour of what I wrote in\nmy Changeability Daily Journal:\nI am going to have a new measure of success from now\non. \nMy new measure of success is around enjoying every day.  So\nessentially I will measure my daily success in terms of whether I\nenjoyed the day and found it fulfilling in some way.\nNow of course what constitutes an enjoyable day or a fulfilling\nday will change from day to day depending on what I\u2019m doing \u2013 but\nin many ways that is the point. \nThere is no real single measure of success, but many different\nmeasures depending on what we\u2019re trying to achieve at any\ntime.  Therefore, I\u2019m using this as an overarching catchall\nthat can encompass any other measure within it.\nAfter all, what I (and I think most people) want to achieve in\nlife and business is to be happy and fulfilled and enjoy this\namazing experience of being alive. \nWhat makes each of us happy and fulfilled will be different and\nthat doesn\u2019t matter, because my new measure of success allows me to\ncapture this for me.\nListen to the podcast to hear me read the full extract from my\nChangeability Planner and Journal.\n\n\u201cA man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed\nat night, and in between he does what he wants to do.\u201d Bob\nDylan\n\nGetting to know you\nIf you listen to our podcast or come to this website regularly\nthen you know a bit about us \u2013 and we\u2019d love to reciprocate and get\nto know more about you. So we\u2019ve come up with a quick questionnaire\nto help do this. We recorded a short\nvideo to explains why \u2013 or you can skip straight to our\nGetting to\nKnow You Questionnaire.\nThere\u2019s just a few questions which only take a couple of minutes\nto complete. It would be fantastic to hear from you as the more we\nknow about you the more we can talk about things and create things\nyou\u2019re interested in and will help you. Thank you.\n","author_name":"Changeability Podcast: Manage Your Mind - Change Your Life","author_url":"http:\/\/www.brilliantlivinghq.com","html":"