Success isn't a destination but the ongoing pursuit of a worthy ideal. The speaker rejects the "I'll be happy when" trap and instead targets top 1% performance across four areas: health, finances, personal development, and relationships.
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The definition of success is the progressive realization of a worthy ideal. So what that really means is that success isn't obtained, it's pursued. That could be why in our society, so many people feel like failures or feel like they've never actually achieved anything. I call it I'll be happy when syndrome. People always say, I'll be happy when I've achieved this, this, this, or this. When in reality, they're never actually going to be happy. The tangible success that I'm striving for in my life is a high level of performance in all categories of my life. For me, that's health, finances, my personal development, my relations, relationships. In my life, I'm looking to achieve a high level 1% of achievement in those four categories.