How 20 Entrepreneurs Define Success: A Year in Review w/ the Big Success Podcast

0:00Welcome to this very special episode of the Big Success Podcast. Today, we're celebrating a huge milestone, 100 episodes of incredible insights, life-changing advice, and inspiring stories from some of the most successful people in business, life, and beyond. Each guest brought something unique to the table, and today we're sharing the very best nuggets of wisdom to help you achieve your big success. First question, what is success in your mind? How do you define it? success is achieving my goals and living the life that I hoped for for me success is being able to do what you want to do when you want to do it in the way that you choose to do it yeah success to me is going to bed at night feeling like I did something that I accomplished something today that I'm proud of I'm not going to bed at night uh regretting things that I didn't do Success is defined for me as the ability to enjoy the consistent, everyday, persistent, without quit pursuit of my potential, my success.

1:10Not what other people want from me, not what's missing, not what I don't have, but my own potential. Success to me is being in a space where one, and most importantly, you can be yourself. you can do something that you absolutely love and help others along the way that's how I define success Brad. Success is living under your own conditions unapologetically doing what makes you happy in the moment and not worrying about what other people think. Well success to me is really being able to do exactly what I want to do when I want to do it with who I want to do it whenever I want to do it. So it's all the freedoms all wrapped into one.

1:51And if you can pull that off, you're successful. And also you're giving a great role model example to the next generation to follow. I love this quote from the Canadian novelist, William Kinsella. He said that success is getting what you want, but happiness is wanting what you get. I think success for me is about the freedom to flourish, which sounds quite nebulous, but it connects with our ability to be integrated, so to have different aspects of ourselves expressed and met. And obviously, that relies upon having financial freedom as well, and the possibility for safety and security, and all of Maslow's being and deficit needs being met.

2:39But I think it's also about understanding how to create the kind of balance in your life where through the course of a week or a month, let's say, you feel as though all of your different aspects are getting the chance to thrive. So for me, I look at success as continual and never-ending improvement. It's so interesting, Brad, because it's very, very personal. And it goes back to what pushes us, what motivates us, right? What is it to us? So for me, it's always been my family, my kids, my husband, Anna, my three kids, I'm not counting my dogs, but they're a huge part of my motivation too. Success to me means fulfillment.

3:17And whether if I'm feeling fulfilled doing my work or volunteering somewhere or with my friend, if I'm feeling fulfilled and getting my needs met, then that's success. You know, my definition of success is how you feel about yourself when you look in the mirror? Are you living a life of significance? Are you impacting people in a positive way? So that's my definition of success. How do you feel about yourself when you look in the mirror? Good question, of course. And I think success for me is just improving my lot, improving my mindset, improving what I'm able to do or enjoy, improving the numbers in the business, improving my reach.

3:57It's just about success is about, I guess, being better in all those different areas, improving in some way. And of course, we've all got different criteria about what success is. But for me, whatever I look at, just trying to get a bit better each time, each day, each month, each year. Success to me, I would say it's being able to live your fullest potential mentally, physically, socially, spiritually, emotionally, and then financially. There's a personal context of success, which is down to how you're measuring your own fulfillment and your own potential. I remember Mark Parker from Nike once said that he doesn't measure the distance between Nike and the competition.

4:37He measures the distance between Nike and its potential. And I like that. I'd say that success for me is going to sleep excited to wake up the next day. You know, as a pilot and as an around the world pilot, and now as a professional speaker, My definition of success is being willing to take off into whatever airspace I choose to fly, metaphorically or literally, and know that there may be turbulence, but taking off anyways, knowing that the bumps are going to be out there, but that I can handle them. And you know what? Every journey doesn't have to be perfectly smooth. It can be bumpy along the way, but as long as I finally make it to that destination, it may be nonlinear, but it's really learning to love the turbulence along the way.

5:20Yeah, to me, success is well-rounded success. If somebody has great revenue or they're making a great income, but they're out of shape, they're not healthy, they're depressed, they're burnt out, they're not enjoying life. you know, to me, that's not success. Maybe they're winning with the revenue. Maybe they're winning with the income. But it's not to me, my definition is not success. It's more of a full spectrum success. My definition is constantly making steps forward toward my attainable goals and always watching to give value back to people along the way. From all of us at the Big Success Podcast, thank you for being a part of this journey.

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