30 Days To Fire Up Your Creative Genius, Day 7: What's Underneath Your Definition Of Success? (VIDEO)

As a term, "success" is up there with nice and plastic--it covers just about everything but doesn't tell you much at all.

Whatever it is, we all want it, and we want it bad. But what does success actually feel like to you? Contrary to what the progenitors and propagators of the (North) American Dream would tell you, success is actually a very personal thing.

Beneath your wanting to be successful are likely more poignant emotions that you desire. Dig
deeper.

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Missed It? You can still participate in '30 Days To Fire Up Your Creative Genius':

• Day 1: Welcome To '30 Days To Fire Up Your Creative Genius'
• Day 2: Where Are You Forcing Yourself To Be Better?
• Day 3: What Are You Intensely Interested In?

• Day 4: What's The Current Proportion Of Your Life?

• Day 5: Why Do You Want What You Want?

• Day 6: How Do You Want To Feel?

• Day 7: What's Underneath Your Definition Of Success?

• Day 8: What Have You Pulled Off?

• Day 9: What's Your Favorite Failure?

• Day 10: What Will You Approach As New?

• Day 11: What's On Your Stop Doing List?

• Day 12: What's Your Relationship To Time?

• Day 13: What Matters Most In Your Beingness?

• Day 14: What's Chronic, Repetitive Or Inflamed In Your Life?

• Day 15: Who Do You Admire?

• Day 16: What's Your Worldview?

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Comments

[stephanieward]

03:15 AM on 04/26/2012

My favorite definition of success comes from the amazing Maya Angelou:

“Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.”

[DSevere]

04:09 AM on 04/24/2012

Success to me is really simple.

- I love what I do, and continue to have fun, creative, challenging projects
- I love my husband and our rescued pups
- Nobody tells me what to do
- We make enough money that we don't have to worry about paying the rent.

Thhhhhhhat's all folks...

[french queen13]

08:43 PM on 04/23/2012

Success for me is unlearning (it's still in progress) the materialist-reductionist crap and feeling the unparalleled joy of knowing my beloved is alive and has loved me even longer than I have loved him; being in contact with him; and knowing we have forever. That's the meaning and connection that outweighs all others for me.

[No death panels]

08:46 AM on 04/23/2012

Crickets.