I want success but I don't want to desperately run after it
Who never ran after success raise your hand.
I have spent part of my life chasing him, in a way that I still run. I tried so hard when I tried to be a soccer player and I couldn't.
Deep down, I realize that when I was looking for success, I wasn't looking for it in itself, but what it brings. Each one has its own metrics. Sometimes it is money, sometimes it is an apartment in a beautiful neighborhood, it can also be an important position in a large company or the new car of the year. The most common is to see people guided by material goods to measure the level of what they consider "getting there".
(Edited with photo lap and logopit plus)
For me, however, the most relevant dividend of success is recognition.
I learned that having recognition is a necessity of mine until today, and I also know many people.
If it were not for this need, brands would not exist, advertising would only highlight the tangible attributes of products, without bothering to demonstrate the lifestyle that those who buy or consume supposedly receive.
Before continuing, it is important to emphasize that I am not here in favor of success and recognition, nor of devaluing the advertising industry, which I particularly admire.
The context here is different. I want to bring a reflection, who knows a balance in what we value and what we put energy into. I speak from experience, because if you have an expression that almost became a hackneyed phrase in much of my life, it is "chasing success."
Basically, chasing success is a continuous and insatiable quest. Most of the time harmful.
This moving target can make you so addicted that your gaze knows no other focuses, other dimensions. So you forget everything else and don't even enjoy the trip.
This is the harmful concept that I learned to rethink.
No one needs to lie here. I want success
However, I don't want to desperately run after him.
What I am looking for today is to change that hand above what is normally heard. I work not to chase him, but to make him run after me.
So I stopped targeting success. It became more a consequence of what I do, what I practice.
The key was to reflect on what really matters, what I came to do in this world, because I do what I do: my purpose.
I learned what purpose is to put the best in the world.
In my case, helping, provoking, being an example for many of my contemporaries who took the wrong paths and today are frustrated.
Does my parameter of success, that is, recognition, run after me? Sometimes yes. Sometimes not.
But when it catches up with me, I feel like I'm doing the right thing, enjoying life, rather than just running. What I feel is this flow, that so many people study and pursue.
RENT, the musical, looks at how we can measure the 524,600 minutes of a year in our lives. Time, as a limited unit of measure, seems to me a good rule of thumb to know if we are moving towards what we really consider our measure of success, our purpose.
Think about it a little. The first step may be there, so that success runs after you.
*Do we reverse the logic of things a bit?
