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Success is How YOU Define It
Success — like beauty and perfection — is in the eye of the beholder.
As an authorpreneur, I am not just a writer and publisher of books. Like it or not, I’m a business. One of the things I’m putting renewed focus on this year is how I define success.
Over the years, that definition has changed. As a kid, desiring to get traditionally published, success was seeing my books in the bookstore. As I got older, it was seeing them in the bookstore, then on the screen after being turned into a film. Success was being big and bad and well-known, someone who was a household name like few writers get to be.
As I’ve worked on my craft, and created and published more and more books, I’ve shifted my definition of success. Not because I think I’m less capable of achieving those big, lofty goals. But because they don’t mean to me what they once did.
Yes, it would be cool to be a name-brand people recognize. I’d love to find myself as a voice on The Simpsons or testing my spice tolerance on Hot Ones. However, those aren’t how I define success anymore. My definition is now self-sustaining income and entertaining/inspiring/empowering readers.
