Success Scripts: Friend or Foe

Success Scripts: friend or foe? I clearly remember the day it was said to me after 18 years of building a sports management agency; "You know, you can redefine your definition of success."

That wrecking ball took no mercy and knocked me on my ass.

What do you mean redefine my definition of success? Who would I be if I was not earning this level of revenue and income? If my name was not Sue Izzo Mosaic Sports Management, my identity and self-worth completely wrapped up and identified by this title.

Oddly this pressure I put on myself, this success script that was the sole reason I did not sleep, that fed my anxiety was influenced by my desire to be worthy, to be enough, to be significant. But was this my success script to follow now, in this stage of my life? Was this my shit to carry one more day?

So if I took this crazy advice of redefining, reimagining my success script, this new measuring stick per say, what would it look like, how would it read, what were the boxes I would want to check off each and every day?

Spreading laughter, smiling, and kindness, that felt good. Being with horses and facilitating Equine Assisted Learning (EAL) for entrepreneurs lite me up. Facilitating curriculum that inspires others, of course being a cheerleader to help folks reignite that flame that may have gone dim was another. Being around and working with good people, well that was overdue. And nurturing friendships, old and new, building and investing in my communities, that was a winner too.

Good lord this was a way different success script than I had been operating off of the past 24+ years. I did not think this was possible, nor did I think it would be the same level of fulfillment that owning my company would bring. And what about that self-worth and significance I sooo yearned for and chased...funny, I don't think much about that these days as the horses love me just as I am. And did I mention sleep...oh beautiful slumber!

So here is your invitation to examine how your current success script, the one you inherited or created on your own, is serving you in this stage of your life. And another invitation to do a rewrite that is led more by how you want to feel versus what you want to achieve, or maybe a combination of both.

Either way take pause, decide what you want to carry forth with you, what you want to put down and say thank you to, and what you want to create for yourself going forward.

Author: Sue Izzo