Let me start by saying this:

You get to define what success looks like for you.

Period.

No guru, no expert, no thought leader, no best friends, no significant others, no moms, no dads, no one can tell you that you are only successful at XYZ arbitrary benchmark that truly doesn’t matter.

You’ve probably subconsciously have adopted some beliefs of what you think success means, whether it be 6 figures, or 4 hour work weeks, or living in Bali, or whatever.

I want to challenge you to take some time to assess where those beliefs maybe came from and if those are what success truly means to you or if it’s just what you think it’s supposed to mean to you.

To help you out a bit, here is what success means to me. For me, success to me looks different every day. What that truly means is that success is the freedom to choose.

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I am overall a successful person because I’ve created a life where I have that choice. There’s no money measurement, no time measurement, no wedding ring, no house bought, no kids, no clients tied to my version of success.

In my definition of success, it means having the choice. That might seem really woo to some of you and deep and weird, but just being honest.

Yours? Yours could look like you make 6 figures. Yours could look like you sleep in until 9 am every day. Yours could look like a fancy car. Or first-class flights. Or time to volunteer at your kid’s school. It’s up to you!

If you’ve ever read my content, you’ve read my disclaimer that everything is based on my experiences.  I have some very distinct thoughts and ideas about how to run your business online. It’s a combination of my experiences, what I’ve read, what I’ve studied, what my mentors and coaches have instilled in me, and most importantly: what I value.

Notice how those are all things that are personal to me and my experience? Yeah. I’m more than happy to give ideas, to share things, to even teach things, to give feedback, etc., but I always always always put the disclaimer out there that these are my thoughts and experiences.

I always want my audience to read what I have to say - take what they need from it - and put their own spin on it.

Now I know a lot of that is easier said than done, but I believe in creative problem solving and I believe that everyone has the ability to figure out their own shit in the way that best serves them.

Maybe my ideas or insights will help you in that process, but it’s not my role or my job to just straight up say ‘do step 1. Do step 2. Do step 3.’ but rather, here are the steps that I took, how do those feel or work for you? Is there anything from that that you can take and adjust for yourself?

You define your success.

You define what it means to be successful.

It is ever-evolving. And it is not up to any marketing guru or thought leader or bullshit con artist.

My point here is that it’s completely 100% up to you whether or not you want to see your days, your weeks, your months, your business as successful. And that you get to set whatever milestones you want and feel proud of whatever thing you’ve done or are doing and nobody can tell you otherwise, right?

And to build on that more, I want to point out that even if successful to you means having a huge corporation and 500 employees and you’re not even remotely close to that goal yet, that doesn’t mean you AREN’T successful. You don’t have to hold back or wait to feel good.

You don’t have to deprive yourself of the good feels because you are in progress. Set milestones. Set smaller goals. Let success happen more along the way and like we talked about last week, take time to celebrate the wins so that you can keep having more and more wins during your journey!