To Succeed, You Need To Stop Looking At The Tip Of The Iceberg

You’ll never see the mess in others’ lives

Sinem Günel
Publishous
Published in
5 min readApr 8, 2020

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Photo by Ben White on Unsplash

Did you ever see someone posting a picture on Instagram sharing how awful their day was?

Me neither.

And did you ever see a perfect picture showing how wonderful someone’s life is?

The ideal brunch, a perfect marriage proposal, a trip to Paris, or a beautiful gender announcement during pregnancy?

Me too.

There is no definition of successes that we all would agree on.

Yet, we keep comparing ourselves to others.

And most importantly, we compare our second or fifth day to others’ 800th or even 1500th day.

We give up because we don’t succeed quickly.

Get rich schemes are more prominent than ever before, and sadly, more people than ever before are paying crazy sums for these secret success-promising formulas.

The definition of success, according to the Oxford Learner’s Dictionaries, is:

“the fact that you have achieved something that you want and have been trying to do or get; the fact of becoming rich or famous or of…

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Sinem Günel
Publishous

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