Daily measures of success

How do you determine your success from day-to-day?
How are you validating yourself (internally rather than external validation)?
Journal about and come up with a list of ways you can validate yourself and your success day to day, week to week or month to month
- For example, one metric could be to ask yourself “am I doing the best that I can?”
If you acknowledge areas that you feel you aren’t accomplishing what you want (for example, kindness to homeless folks on the street):
- First and foremost, acknowledge it with compassion, never shaming yourself.
- Then, make an action plan for a step or steps you can take to help you move toward “success” in that area. Specific steps that help you create/achieve/feel success in your day to day interactions and actions
- For example, Tomorrow when I walk out of my building I’ll spend 3 minutes visualizing angel wings on everyone I see, particularly any homeless I pass)
Identify areas that are unsettled or where you feel you could be doing better and make an action plan
- Just focus on one or two things at a time. Don’t overwhelm self with too many action plans for too many things

Good enough / “being good enough”

What are some measures of this you can create for yourself in your day-to-day?
- ex: did you do your best given wherever you were at that day? (our best will always change day to day)
did you learn something new? did you challenge yourself in some way? (**if those are pieces that you deem relevant).
Again, set yourself up for success!!! Don’t set a bar like “I’ll be good enough if I write a paper tomorrow”. Baby steps.
Additional Mentions:
- Esther Perel: Her podcast is called “Where Should We Begin”. She’s also written a couple of books if you’re interested.
- “The 4 Agreements” by don Miguel Ruiz