I know that you are intelligent, focused, driven and successful.
But do you feel successful? Good enough?
If you do, thats wonderful. But if you are one of the many that don’t, then read on. This post is for you.
Many of you may be surrounded by the outward trappings of success – the job, the title, the package, the recognition and validation, the house, car, bonus, benefits, travel etc. etc. And yet, it still may not feel like enough.
Either the success does not feel like enough—you want a bigger title, paycheck, car, house, package, bonus—whatever has not yet been achieved.
Or you don’t feel good enough in which case despite having all of the above and more, you somehow still feel like the same person you started out as—the person who wanted more. The person who thought if she got it all, she would be complete.
Why does this happen? Why do you or your success not feel good enough?
The answer is very simple. It exists within the question itself.
You dont feel good enough.
Your successes don’t matter or mean anything. What matters is how you feel about them.
Until you feel successful inside, you can own the world and it will not make a difference to you.
You will feel like something is missing, something you cant quite put your finger on. All you know is that what you have and are—is not quite enough.
Before we move on I just want to clarify something. Dont get me wrong – success and all that it comes with can make you feel good. Temporarily atleast. You can enjoy and be proud of the bonus, the new car, the promotion. But in a very short while the feeling will wear off and you will be back looking for the next thing that will prove to you that you are in fact successful. Your list of accomplishments and possession will not be enough—you will want more.
And even though the cycle has repeated itself numerous times before, you still believe that somehow with the next success bump you will finally feel that thing that you crave—enough.
So…
How do you get to feeling enough?
Believe it or not, once again, the answer is a simple one.
The trappings of success are outside of you while feelings exist inside of you.
Thats it. There is a disconnect that you must bridge in order to balance the two.
To feel enough.
And now we come to the tricky part. How do you do that?
This part is simple only if you know yourself. Really know yourself.
You need to understand what success means to you and only you.
Most of you have let your success model be fed to you externally. It may have come from your parents, your environment, or a combination of all the above. You beleived that your life was lacking and therefore you concluded that by getting the things you lacked would make you successful.
Or, your success model may have been inspired by the outward success of other people – tech giants, billionaires, scientists, YouTubers – other people more rich, successful or famous than you. You see them and you want what they have – you want their success.
You in fact may not even know what you want? The thing that would actually take you to the place where you finally feel enough.
And that thing may or may not be related to the model of success in your mind that you have spent all this time chasing. You may have been fulfilling someone else’s dreams or your own fantasies but not in fact giving yourself what you need in order to feel authentically successful.
What I can tell you about that thing is that it is unique to you and emerges from the very core of your being – who you really are inside.
Search within yourself to discover what it is that makes you feel complete and secure and satisfied. I promise you that when you find that thing, it will transform you and your life. You will finally feel enough.
And if you need help along the way, I want you to know that I would be honoured to help you on that path of self-discovery and fulfillment.