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Nina Alvarez

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Finding success

One of the most popular self-improvement expressions is "good is the enemy of great." Although it sounds appealing, it might also be wrong.

We are told that we have to strive to be great to meet the ever-increasing pressures of today's world. But two-thirds of all employees report feeling burned out at work. It is probably not the kind of success everyone is after.

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It's Okay to be Good and Not Great

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It's Okay to Be Good and Not Great

"Good is the enemy of great" is one of the most popular self-improvement expressions there is. It's the first sentence of an international bestselling business book, the title of another self-help book, and a mantra that NFL superstar J.J. Watt has used in press conferences.

outsideonline.com

Good Enough

We all are told that greatness is the route to success. But Good is not the enemy of Great.

Going by the epidemic of clinical anxiety, employee burnout, depression, and other stress-related p...

Thich Nhat Hanh

Success means finding happiness in your work and life, in the here and the now.

Out of the Dream World

Remove the fairy tale, magical thinking from your life, and accept who you are and where you stand. Recognize your circumstances as they are and take appropriate action.

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Julia L.

@julia_yl497

How Do You Measure Success?

Wealth, job title, and happiness are some of the most common measures of success. It's important to measure success the right way because it informs how you spend your time and effort. If you don't measure success in terms of what's truly important to you, you can't work towards getting there.

mfishbein.com

“You can’t manage what you can’t measure.”

Peter Drucker

Discover Your Values

Being able to achieve a success metric is hard, but knowing which metric to achieve is even more important. Discover what you value and choose your own metrics for success, otherwise, your environment will dictate it for you, which could be unfulfilling for you.

Work towards your own idea of success and don’t let “FOMO” make you feel like a failure because you’re not meeting someone else’s metrics for success.

Peter Drucker

re is nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency, something that should not be done at

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Hashim I

@hashimi

This Is the Right Way to Strive for Anything in Life

In our first book, Peak Performance , Steve and I wrote that setting a goal and then throwing your all into pursuing it is one of the best feelings there is. In our second book, The Passion Paradox , we warned about the dangers of obsessive passion, or becoming too focused on achieving an external goal.

thriveglobal.com

Harmonious passion

It is a state of being where you are entirely absorbed in what you are doing, known as flow by modern psychological science, productive activity by humanist philosopher Erich From...

Obsessive passion

Setting a goal and doing everything possible to pursue it is a great feeling.
However, often it is the very striving to be great that gets in the way of actually being great.

The richer experience

When we are young and insecure, passion or striving often manifest as looking ahead and craving external validation (becoming a champion or lawyer or millionaire or whatever).

If we gain wisdom, the energy of our passion and striving becomes less about achieving the goal and more about where you are on the journey at present. It is about having a richer experience of the present moment. With this as a focus, you are more likely to achieve success.

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