Mountains of Arizona
Sunny 64 Degrees
4:13 p.m.
For years, I dreamed about the days when I was going to be successful.
They’d be stress free days. They’d be easy days. They’d be fun days where I could do whatever I wanted to do.
I was looking forward to having some days like that.
But as the years went by and I started actually getting some traction out in the world, things didn’t turn out quite like that vision.
From my experience, success doesn’t resemble that vision I had at all. In fact, it kind of resembles the opposite.
The more “success” I have, the more responsibility I have. The more accountability I have. The more commitments to others I have. The more people I have who are, in one way or another, kind of counting on me.
Wouldn’t you know it, the more of those things I get, the more alive I feel as well.
I know there are some folks out there where the money is just rolling in and they LITERALLY don’t have to do anything to have their material needs met.
I know people in that situation. I’ve met them.
But they are generally no more “filled up” than anyone else. Because that’s not what this journey is about.
It reminds me of the Jim Carrey quote:
“I think everybody should get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed of so they can see that it’s not the answer.”