The Missing Piece

The Cost That No One Considers in Defining Personal Success

Paul Lyngso

What is success? Is it simply financial stability of material possessions? What metrics do you track to consider your life successful? Or do you get frustrated by trying to live up to someone else's definition of success? Tune in to this episode to hear why defining success for yourself is the most important work you can do! Everyone has the capacity to create the limitless boundaries of their own success, not based on the traditional narrative of accumulating wealth. Nobody can tell you what success means for you. You decide it because you are the author of your life. You can create a decision-making framework or process that will set you up for success by ensuring that you define your success, the values you wish to move forward with, and whether the risk you take is acceptable to you. 


In this episode, we discuss the internal struggles that nearly everyone experiences but only a couple talk about in the process of creating success. It is the struggle between what we want and should do. Listen and learn an easy decision-making framework that will help you and make it easy to make decisions that lead you to a life of what you actually want.


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Key Highlights from the Show

[00:01] What is in for you in today’s show 

[00:31] Paul’s personal struggles with what he wanted versus what he thought he should do

[06:07] Experiencing true personal success

[06:45] Why trying to live up to other people’s success is imprisonment

[07:50] How a quality decision-making process looks like

[10:07] Three ways to make your decision-making process work for you

[10:50] How Paul weaves the tree tips in his day-to-day life decisions for success

[16:00] Assessing whether the risk you take for success is worth it

[18:54] Wrap-up and end of the show

Notable Quotes 

  • Making that scary decision unplugs you from the matrix of dilemma. - (06:07).
  • Nobody can tell you what success means for you. You decide it. You are the author of your life. - (06:32)
  • Trying to live up to anybody else’s version of success is imprisonment to your potential that keeps you in a state of confusion. - (06:45)
  • No decision is in itself a decision. If you do not say YES to what you want, you are actually saying NO.- (07:22)
  • True confidence is not about thinking that you will win all the time. A truly confident person knows they will still be okay even if they fail. - (07:57)
  • We rarely think about the time and opportunity we lose when we say no to risks that lead us to success. Every day is an opportunity to get closer to your definition of success. - (18:02)

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