It’s essential that we shed the expectation that once you hit a certain level, you must stay there.
Because in reality, success isn’t about staying at the top or replicating past achievements, it’s about the ongoing evolution, which includes the inevitable ups and downs.
Maybe you’ve led a successful project and now you have an expectation of yourself that you can’t go backward and that every project has to be a huge success or you’ve failed.
Or perhaps you’ve reached a fitness milestone or ran a marathon, and now you feel like you must always be in peak condition.
Or maybe you feel like you’ve always got to always be the perfect role model for your kids, especially after someone praised your parenting.
But your highest level of success is not your new baseline. There will be moments when things don’t go according to plan, and that’s not only normal, but it's also part of the process. It's about strength. Being able to rise, adapt, and keep going, even when things feel like the...