Success vs Excellence

Like it or not, we have been programmed to seek success - the promotion that signals that you’re more senior than your peers, the car that is newer/faster/shinier than theirs, the house on the nicer street….

But to seek success is to give control over our lives to others - when the goal is to compare, the benchmark is being set by someone else.

Asking yourself if this is the best you can do or be is a much harder question, but the answer will tell you who, rather than where, you really are, and more importantly, what you need to be doing next…