Who gets to keep score?

What is your definition of success? Where did that definition come from? Did you get to define it? Did someone else set the parameters—directly or indirectly?

The only rules you should impose on yourself are your own—the ones that can be used to apply your energy to whatever successful outcome you desire.

Define your success. I don’t care what it is. If you want to save the world, fine. If you want to take a year off and go learn how to play the ukulele, cool. If you want to ride around the Sahara on a motorcycle Mad Max-style, great.

Those of us who are not part of your internal makeup don’t get to decide what your road to success looks like. That’s all you, baby.