In this episode, Cicily gets vulnerable about her own struggles with navigating pitfalls and setbacks in the journey towards accomplishing her goals and seeing her dreams come true, and how it affects her desire to keep persevering through it. We all want to be successful, right? Well, is our definition of success the money and the fame and the awards? What happens when you experience setbacks and those things don't happen right away, or even after a while?

Are we unsuccessful and not cut out for our goals and dreams? Should we give up when the money doesn't roll in and when the dreams don't come true?

Or is our definition of success all wrong? Could "success" possibly be more than the money in our banks and the trophies on the shelves?

Cicily proposes in this episode that success has been twisted into this short-sighted version of what it really is, and society has taught us to worship the mere 'evidence' of the process of developing into the people we become when we inherit the label of success. The money, the fame, the accolades, those are things we often associate with this notion of success, but there is an entire other side to it that no one wants to celebrate and romanticize - and it's the process...

Millionaires often go bankrupt and broke in their business ventures. CEOs often start their companies in their garages. Artists write thousands of songs before they have a hit.

NOTHING is overnight, but the result of the success seems to tell us that it doesn't require constant effort, and tweaking, and changing, and failing, and falling, and nothing in the bank many times.

So when we find ourselves there in the "nothing in the bank", in the "F on the term paper", do we give up on the dream entirely because we are unsuccessful?

Or do we re-wire our brains to redefine the word "success" and understand that there is a process to get there, and failure is a part of that process?

Ultimately, how we view success will determine if our goals and our dreams come true or not. And when we go broke, or have to get a part time job, or have to start over, it's not that we failed or we never will succeed, but that there is something else we need in order to elevate to the success we aspire to.


This podcast is a Creatives Club Media podcast, hosted by Cicily, the founder of Creatives Club. If you have questions you would like Cicily to address on this podcast, you can submit those questions to her email:
[email protected]

You can also listen to our other podcast, No One's Home anywhere you get your podcasts:
https://podcasts.apple.com/dk/podcast/no-ones-home/id1772337402
https://open.spotify.com/show/5zHuBCexYBkiM0Lb3e84CM

You can also follow along Cicily's journey in her professional life on various social platforms:
https://www.instagram.com/cashcraftphoto/
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCovYiUi2thfLo74FFduvdmQ

Thank you so much for being a part of the Creatives Club!

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