What makes people successful?

This video talks through some ideas of how one might achieve success with a project, from initial curiosity, passion, strategy, belief, persistence, and daily tenacity, all the way through completion.

At this point, my aim is to finish the thing by May 1st - maybe this is ambitious, but let's see if I'm "successful" at reaching that.

DAY 36 of daily videos! :)

[changez]

My working definition of success (for now) is - having options. What this means is that given any situation you find yourself stuck in, you have options to make changes. Namely around where you live, how you make money, and what you do in your spare time. By this definition, I see someone on median income, but with the ability to up sticks and move jobs to another state or another continent as successful, compared to a millionaire who feels 'stuck' in their life (and lifestyle) with seemingly no way out. I am relatively happy with my life, but I have been working to make adjustments so I always have at least 2-3 different realistic options available to me on the things that matter. This makes me feel successful. Part of this is inspired by the financial independence community, but it really is not about being rich or financially independent. It is more about feeling stuck vs feeling free to make changes. For me, having practical alternatives also makes me feel more content with my current situation. Not sure if this makes sense, this is the first time I have written this definition of success down.

[michelecooper]

Success for me...facing my greatest fears head on and moving forward. Anxiety and stress be damned. Learning to sit in it, knowing it is part of the process. That is one definition of success.

[zachparade]

For success, I like the Japanese concept of ikigai: basically, balancing doing work in the world that I love, am good at, meets the world’s needs, and that I can earn money from. ✌️

[Ginut]

Success is you, rolling over and analyzing 'success". Keep that

[nicolasd]

I believe it's irrelevant to aim for success. "Success is a consequence, not a goal." Gustave Flaubert.

[SteveAbrahall]

I think you need a good story to create a comic book - then great characters. Cats are great Lefie you should include a cat I'm sure Success will be just a whisker away once you commit! :-) 😻

[LotjeG]

I think what success looks like is highly dependent on you expectation. If you expect to sell a million copies anything less will look and feel like a failure. If you expect to just get it done, you don't even need to get it published or sold for this to be a successful project.

[MaryHamerMusic]

I'm going back to college at 40 years old, after ~20 years of being out of school (7 or which was spent not able to work because of mental health)! But now I'm on my 2nd semester and I've been invited to an honor society because I've raised my GPA to a high level! I wish that I could say that was a goal, but honestly, I was just trying to do my best. And apparently my best (for these last 2 semesters) has been 4.0 (but I'm about 3.58 overall, with my transferred units). My goal and view of success is vague but I know what it FEELS like. That is: To make an exciting, adventurous, compelling future for myself. Or, in other words, to feel like I'm going somewhere and to have an optimistic view of what lies ahead of me. I'm taking on a lot right now (including coming back to mental health vlogging, recording my mental-health-related music album, volunteering, etc.) and I couldn't be happier!! I wish I had more "solid" goals right now other than to "do and feel my best" but that feels like all I can do without tipping into "I NEED TO BE PERFECT" mode. <3

[lunaumbra]

Success can only be understood after you take stock of your values and set expectations.

I value the happiness and hope I help inspire in others. No other measure will make me feel true success. My love language is acts of service. What I create is something to promote those values.

[WhoIsJohnGaltt]

Success is the achievement of happiness. And happiness is the outcome of achieving and acquiring your values

[seriouslywhatever]

Success to me would be having done something and being able to see that I've improved on where I started, especially when I originally thought I couldn't do the thing. Or if someone else told you that you couldn't do the thing.

One of my goals is to draw hyper realistically. I still can't do that but just being able to see that I've got closer to that goal feels like success to me, even though I'm not there yet.

[fulltimelife]

Small steps forward. My definition of success in every task.

[Biankadonk]

I used to define success as being the best at what I do. But this mindset can and does lead to burnout quickly in my industry. So, I changed my definition of success as being able to afford little luxuries without breaking the bank and people coming to me with job offers. I'm happy to say I have both, and I'm content. As for being the best, I still strive for it, but now it's more of a long-term personal goal that can and will go on.

[littleripper]

I like the white lineart on the blue background. As someone who makes comics books as their career my advice is to learn by doing and studying as you go. I see too many who try to study and plan for a year or years even, when they really just need to start making comics. I would be very curious to see a comic made by you with the white lineart on the blue background.

[GaliaReal]

for me success is the freedom to do whatever you want, whenever you want to.
wanting to run, and having the time to do it, is success for me.
waking up without an alarm, is success.
wanting to eat something and to have that available, is success.

[Delala]

I love your definition! For me succes is different for each goal, but in general I'd say it is about being content with what you've done 🙂

[silviaespana]

Hello Lefie ☺!

Currently success for me is my mental peace and growth 😃

Great video 🤓🤗☺!

[Vc-otbt]

Success for me is "being in the flow". It doesn't involve an outcome, success criteria or time frame. Just doing what im doing without self criticism or self satisfaction, nor being concerned with outside influences. The payoff is all that comes with being in the flow.

[Mrbertiification]

Thanks for your insperation and the reminder that talent ist not equal sucess!

[PhiloftheMetaverse]

Hey Lefie glad you’re doing better - Success to me is about the process, and not the outcome. Otherwise I’d be at the mercy of luck! I set myself up for success by preparing and trying to anticipate needs/future requirements before they come.