redefining success
Natalie Audelo and
redefining success
Your vocation, in the mid-20th-century world I was born into, was your job title. This was such a diminishment of us. We are called not merely to be professionals but to be friends, neighbors, colleagues, family, citizens, lovers of the world. We are called to creativity and caring and play for which we will never be paid — and which will make life... See more
Three Callings for Your Life and for Our Time | The On Being Project
I also received positive feedback from my clients, who said that their time with me was the most impactful part of their week! This hit my north star metric: insights per minute.
Elena Verna • Why I Quit Full-Time Roles
Modern aspiration is not about having money to buy things, but having taste to know what to buy.
andjelicaaa.substack.com • Move Over Influencers, Here Come Curators
What a joy to know someone who truly walks their talk.
Undoing Individualism: Learning from Elizabeth Oldfield
Optimize for legacy, not empire. Empires die because they’re alone, legacies live because they involve others.
-OH, on building teams and brand communities
The longer answer is: find whatever you’re most efficient at that you also enjoy doing, learn how to get even faster and better at it, and work with clients who are already making money and value your work. Then spend the rest of your time and energy making art until that makes enough money so that you can do less of the first thing. But you can... See more
Ana Wang • Is Everyone Succeeding Without Me?
Kevin Kelly has this great idea that you need your own distinct definition of success. For me, success would be cultivating a very specific reputation. I'd like my reputation to be "talk to that guy and you'll leave energized, thinking about something new. Good things will happen, and it'll generally cost you nothing."
Patrick OShaughnessy • Tweet
Viktor Frankl wrote dozens of books, but only one, Man’s Search For Meaning, was not aimed at commercial success. Frankl wrote Man’s Search For Meaning and published it anonymously. “And so it is both strange and remarkable to me,” Frankl wrote, that it became his most well-known and influential work. For the rest of his life, Frankl would share
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