Thoughts of the Week: March 28, 2025
Forge your own path
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Despite what others might try to sell you, there is no *one* path and no *one* secret to success.
When you’re getting started, it’s realizing that what worked for someone else might not work for you—and when you’ve already achieved quite a bit? It’s a lesson you already know well.
Two keys to optimize the information around you, no matter who you are:
Know where *you* are going. What your vision is, and where you want to be.
Know what information you still need to get there. Where are there gaps?
Your path is yours. It contains your own priorities, goals, and what “success” looks like to you personally.
Be a seeker of specific information, not a responder to all of it.
This approach gives you a filter. To kick things aside you don’t need, and bring in the things that will really be useful.
When there is no one way to success, you are free to follow the path you *want* to go down instead of the ones you feel you *have* to follow.
No one achieves greatness by following a script written for someone else…real success comes from writing your own.
Trust your instincts, take bold steps, and build something that’s entirely yours.
1. Base your success on yourself, not others.
2. Take a look at a “new approach to leadership” built upon selfless teamwork, freedom, and authenticity in Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success by Phil Jackson.
3. Ideas are nothing without the actions behind them.
