Statistics are certainly the easiest and most obvious way tomeasure success. With money wealth, income being one of mostpopular ways for people to measure their own or others’success.

But it’s all relative. What constitutes a measure of success inmonetary terms fluctuates according to age, the circles you movein, geographical location and your time in history.

Money can be measure in it’s own right or as an indication ormeasure of success. It’s not necessarily the money per sethat’s important to measure, but it’s rather the way some peoplechoose to quantify their success. The success is what drives them,not the money, but income is a useful indicator and measure ofthat.

That’s all very well and yes numbers and effort are a good wayto measure anything, but let’s not ignore the role of feelings andthe experience itself. Otherwise we run the danger of seeingsuccess as one-dimensional and we’re not one-dimensional beings, soif we do this we fail to capture the true meanings of success.

So how are we measuring success?

During my reflection time recently (a part of my Changeabilitymind-work where I write whatever comes to mind during meditation orvisualisation) I came to a realisation as I was musing on this verysubject.

I realised that for much of my life I’ve equated success withvalidation. Validation for what I’m not sure, but it’s something todo with feeling valued and wanting to be seen to be good enough orfor people to think I’m good at doing what I’m doing.

This was quite a revelation! I was interested in what it meant.Did I see my self-worth wrapped up in other people’s idea of myworthiness? I don’t think of myself as someone who worries too muchabout what others think of me, or let it stop me doing things. Butmaybe it’s not so much about what others think, but more that Iwant to be seen as good enough so I think I’m good enoughmyself.

There’s a lot more to be said about this and how it shows up inwhat I do and don’t do. You can hear all of this in much moredetail in episode 91 of The ChangeabilityPodcast.

A new measure of success

If you haven’t got time to listen to the episode now (and it’squite a short episode for us) here’s a flavour of what I wrote inmy Changeability Daily Journal:

I am going to have a new measure of success from nowon.

My new measure of success is around enjoying every day. Soessentially I will measure my daily success in terms of whether Ienjoyed the day and found it fulfilling in some way.

Now of course what constitutes an enjoyable day or a fulfillingday will change from day to day depending on what I’m doing – butin many ways that is the point.

There is no real single measure of success, but many differentmeasures depending on what we’re trying to achieve at anytime. Therefore, I’m using this as an overarching catchallthat can encompass any other measure within it.

After all, what I (and I think most people) want to achieve inlife and business is to be happy and fulfilled and enjoy thisamazing experience of being alive.

What makes each of us happy and fulfilled will be different andthat doesn’t matter, because my new measure of success allows me tocapture this for me.

Listen to the podcast to hear me read the full extract from myChangeability Planner and Journal.

“A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bedat night, and in between he does what he wants to do.” BobDylan

Getting to know you

If you listen to our podcast or come to this website regularlythen you know a bit about us – and we’d love to reciprocate and getto know more about you. So we’ve come up with a quick questionnaireto help do this. We recorded a shortvideo to explains why – or you can skip straight to ourGetting toKnow You Questionnaire.

There’s just a few questions which only take a couple of minutesto complete. It would be fantastic to hear from you as the more weknow about you the more we can talk about things and create thingsyou’re interested in and will help you. Thank you.

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