30th November 2024
Here’s a harsh truth of life: You’ll never feel successful unless you create your own definition of success.
Most people subconsciously define it around financial metrics: Some arbitrary annual income level, the achievement of a net worth target, or the ownership of some item.
We all measure our success in life based on the wrong—or at least an incomplete—thing: Money.
I am not saying that money isn’t anything— Iam only saying that it simply can’t be the only thing.
When a measure of performance becomes an explicit, stated goal, humans will prioritize it, regardless of any associated and unintended consequences. We blind ourself to everything else, focusing on the single measure, the single battle, no matter the costs elsewhere. Every new promotion, pay raise, and bonus feels like a win as we ignore the painful losses of a much more important war slowly slipping through our fingers.
The war is about happiness, fulfillment, loving relationships, purpose, growth, and health. If all the battles we are fighting are exclusively about money, we may win these battles, but will lose the war.
We need a new scoreboard: A new way to measure our life, a new way to define success on our own terms.
Get a new scorecard to measure your life,
Where our old, default scoreboard was entirely based on money, the new one should offer a comprehensive way to look at how to measure our life across the five key pillars that define a truly wealthy existence:
Time Wealth: Freedom to choose how to spend your time.
Social Wealth: Connection to others.
Mental Wealth: Purpose, growth, space.
Physical Wealth: Health and vitality.
Financial Wealth: Money and an awareness of how much is enough.
Measure your life along these lines, allocate the right proportion to each of the above types of wealth & stay blessed forever.