You carry yourself differently when you’re proud of what you’ve accomplished.
When you can look back over the past year and muse “I done good.”
At holiday parties, you stand taller.
You feel good because you know you had a good year.
Not because you were lucky, but because you were smart.
Courageous and disciplined.
Systematic and relentless.
You took calculated risks others never would have taken because you worked backwards from your big goal, not forwards from today’s limitations.
You know that some of them paid off. And others… didn’t.
But you’re further ahead thanks to both kinds. Even a setback is a step forward when you have the savvy to learn from it.
Most people don’t get to feel this way.
“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation” observed Thoreau.
They’re scared. Rather than thinking big, they’re thinking about their next small step to survive.
It takes a big man to decide what he wants and then leap with the faith that the net will appear.
But if you’re feeling proud today, you already know.
“Leap and the net will appear” is really the only way to live your life so that you finish your year feeling so good.
Dov Gordon
PS – If you’re feeling good about what you achieved this past year, but you also know it’s time to play a bigger game; it’s time for something even bigger, then let’s talk.
