Are you trying to control your own success?
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Bettermental is wrapping up Season 2 with a question: are you limiting your own potential by trying to control your success?
Mike and Leanna discuss what success has meant for each of them: professionally, financially, and mentally. They describe the potential benefits and limitations of wanting to control things when it comes to your personal success, and how your definition of success might change over time.
You’ll learn:
- How the feeling of success or failure can relate to high functioning anxiety and high achieving tendencies [4:25]
- What success has personally looked like for Mike and Leanna [5:00]
- How to define what success means to you [6:48]
- Examples of what we might tell ourselves regarding our success and what we must do to maintain it [9:50]
- The relationship between success and financial health [11:50]
- The balance between planning for success but not limiting your opportunities [19:50]
Show notes at: https://bettermental.fm/episodes/controlling-your-own-success
Chapters
1. Are you trying to control your own success? (00:00:00)
2. How the feeling of success or failure can relate to high functioning anxiety and high achieving tendencies (00:04:25)
3. What success has personally looked like for Mike and Leanna (00:05:00)
4. How to define what success means to you (00:06:48)
5. Examples of what we might tell ourselves regarding our success and what we must do to maintain it (00:09:50)
6. The relationship between success and financial health (00:11:50)
7. The balance between planning for success but not limiting your opportunities (00:19:50)
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