Success = Impact

Success is about more than having money and titles. You probably already agree with that. You will only ever sustainably feel successful when you are having a positive impact. So let's define that for you personally, and then help you get on a path to achieve your personal greatest impact.

When you get to the bottom of this page you will get a link to a journey to help you define success for yourself, and take steps toward it.

Sometimes titles and financial success are symbols of a person who is having an impact and providing value to the world, but often we define the title as success. But there are plenty of people with that type of success who are unhappy and unfruitful, so what gives? While material wealth and recognition certainly go hand-in-hand with true impact, they aren't directly correlated.

 

Not Just Impact...a Positive Impact

 

Financial success doesn't have to mean having a certain amount of money. Too often we look at people who are CEO's, lawyers, doctors, or stock brokers on Wall Street, and we say those people have found success. But that does not automatically—or even often, define success at all—because true success leaves a person feeling fulfilled, energized, and fruitful. Only if the person doing those jobs experiences those three things have they found success. Is your life checking the boxes?

 

 

Fulfilled ☐  Do you wake up in the morning with an assured inner knowing that you are on a great path with your life?

Energized ☐  Does the work you do give you energy and motivation to keep doing it because you know it's enabling you to make a positive impact on the world?

Fruitful ☐  Is there evidence from your work that you are bearing fruit in people's lives to leave them better than before they interacted with you?

 

Now naturally, those three traits may not happen every day of your life, but overall, those are the trends of impact that define success.

 

The best gift money can buy is freedom: time freedom, creative freedom, and mobility freedom. In other words, the essence of any success is whether you are having positive impact with what you are doing in your life, and having sufficient time to act on it. Only then will you feel successful. So as if what you are doing is contributing to your freedom, and energy to bear your most positively impactful fruit in this world?

 

Next, take this test to define your definition and steps toward success >