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Why You Shouldn’t Worry About Success, Just Progress
The power of thinking in ahead and behind days, not good and bad
I had a good day today
How many times have you been asked how your day was, and replied with the above?
It is an automatic response.
But, did you really have a good day? Or just a couple of good moments? Or perhaps only a good chat over lunch with a friend. In recent studies, it has been identified that the largest contributor to workplace happiness is in making progress on meaningful work.
I’m reminded of a conversation I had with a boss. He said to me;
People don’t crave easy work, easy work is boring. They want work that means something, even if it is hard.
The same goes for when people said they had a bad day. They probably didn’t. They may have just had a bad moment or a setback. Those singular moments tend to define our perspective on the whole day.
Good and bad are absolutes, binary. But life is often a spectrum from negative to positive, good to bad, sad to happy, hot to cold.
If life is not binary, not an either-or, then is also true that success is not absolute. You can only progress towards success and your definition of…
