Success Tip | Don’t tie your happiness to your results.

Growing a business make I thought would make me happy. Making more money I thought would make me happy. I share this as somebody who has been guilty of tying his happiness and his self worth to external things. So when I was a pitcher, my happiness and my self worth were often tied to the scoreboard. If I was pitching well, my ERA was good, my win loss record was good, I was feeling good. If I wasn't pitching very well, my ERA was high. My my win loss record reflected a losing season, I would let it negatively impact my view of myself. I did the same in business. I just moved the sports scoreboard to the business scoreboard, right? If I was growing revenue, I was making sales, I felt good. I would often tie my worth to my client's happiness. So I can remember being an account exec early in my career and when all my clients were happy and there was no problems, I felt good. But the second I'd have a client or two who was upset us about something or irritated at our agency, I would let it impact my image of myself.