How do we measure personal success?
In a highly scientific poll*, I asked my friends to fill in the blank:
“I will know I have arrived when. . .”
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…i get there.
- when I no longer ask that question.
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i realize there’s no destination
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I feel I’ve arrived but I can’t remember how- !
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I can relax in this moment
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When I’m greeted at the door with a piece of apple pie.
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I’m already there.
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My GPS tells me… unless I’m in the middle of the woods.
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i’m dead
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I want what I have.
Granted these are all rather general, and my own answers may vary when looking at different aspects of my life. But professionally, the answer is quite clera to me.
I will know I have arrived when I randomly see someone I don’t know reading my second book.
What about you? How will you know when you “have arrived?”
* via facebook and twitter, natch