Success

It's been on my mind a lot lately. I've been coaching again, job searching, back to school shopping, job searching, kicked to every external link you can think of and have more junk mail and spam than should be lawfully allowed. So many of us(myself included) measure success by the money we make, the items we have, the places we go, where we live. I don't want that pressure anymore. I still have a pressure on me but it's changed. I've always said that all I want to do is travel the world and be with my family while taking lots of pictures. That's it. I do not want the 9-5. The direct deposit. The automatic bill pay. The budgeting. If I measured my success on those factors I'm a huge failure. We live in a big apartment but it's surely not a house. But my kids are just as happy busting through this door as they could be in a mansion. We wrestle, we eat cookies and popcorn and chicken, we play. Do I want more for them? Absolutely, but I want it in experiences. I want them to see new places; Introduce themselves to strangers and hear their stories. I want them to indulge in their time with family. Starting now I will judge myself on how successful I am not because of money but because of how well my kids turn out and if someone decides to throw a party for me and celebrate me. I figure if they're celebrating me it means I've made them happy at some point. I had kids to spend time with them in life not work and be away from them. This is not a bash on anyone that works it's just saying that that is not MY love or success language. If my kids are happy, polite and well rounded and if people care enough to throw a party for me I'll consider myself a success. Until then my "work" is not done. 

Cheers, LB