We don’t want success

And this is why success is so hard

We don’t want the success someone else has.

What you want is the status.

What we want is what that success represents to us.

Their success only happened because they struggled, because they fought day in and day dedicating countless hours, skipping out friends’ get-togethers, giving up their weekends, working late into the night, getting up at 3:00 AM in order to achieve what they have now.

And they would not have what they had now if they didn’t do that work.

And yet we idolize the result without talking about the work, without talking about what it actually took to get there.

We see how they’re living now. They have this lifestyle full of fun and excitement and adventure. They don’t have to show up and work. And yet, most of the time they do.

Why?

Because they’ve become someone else in the process of achieving success.

In fact, if they didn’t become someone else, they would never have achieved that success. They became someone who’s willing to show up and do the work.

They became someone who’s willing to put in the time and the effort.

They became someone else, and that’s what led them to success.

We don’t actually want success.

We just want what comes with success.