From the course: Overcoming Rejection
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What is success?
- Back in the earlier part of this century, there was a personal development guru named Earl Nightingale. And I've heard him quoted as saying, "Success is the ongoing realization of a worthy goal." Or sometimes it's quoted as "Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal." Now rejection can make us feel like anything but a success, but let's go ahead and look a little more deeply at that statement. Success is not a destination. It's an unfolding. It's a journey. It's a step-by-step realization. It's a daily embodiment of your values. So if you think of success as not a question of what you are doing or what you achieve, but rather, who are you being? Who is the person you want to become? One sort of unusual way to think about it is this. Imagine what you would like people to say about you when you leave the room. Wow, she is so kind and thoughtful. He is so generous. She is so funny, she just makes my…
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