Success questions
“Did you get what you want?”
When we talk about success, it is sometimes reduced to answering that question.
Did you get what you want?
There are better questions worth answering;
Did you make the most of what you got?
And did you do it in ways that made your spirit proud?
Did it enlarge you? Did it make you and those around you better?
Did it give you avenues to test your assumptions about yourself, about the world?
Did it take you a step closer towards being the kind of person you want to be in the world?
Because, in the end, these matter beyond getting your request granted.
Especially when you get what you want, despite what you did. Not because of it.