We’re often quick to recognize the persistence behind someone else’s success, yet when it comes to our own achievements, we reduce them to another box checked before moving on to the next challenge. In this week’s Friday Truth, I explore why we’re so good at celebrating the blueprint behind other people’s accomplishments while overlooking our own, how that distorts the way we measure our lives, and why taking an honest account of our own progress isn’t arrogance, it’s perspective.
If we only measure ourselves by what remains undone, success never has a chance to count.