Attachment

Wednesday, September 27

Attaching yourself to success takes you out of the moment. It increases pressure, removes the joy of the process, and becomes exhausting. The result is that winning is not enough because what if you don’t win the next thing? You’ve attached your identity to this outcome, and losing causes you to lose yourself. Success is exciting but fleeting. It will never be enough.

Attaching yourself to failure overwhelms you. Too many walk around with a mental backpack full of bricks, each one representing their failures. This limits your potential, increases the fear of failure, and increases the likelihood of failure. “This is just who I am.”

Success and failure are about the outcome. They are things you can’t control. We know this, but we still give them too much power in our lives. Should you care about them? Of course. We want good outcomes but cannot let any outcome define us. What we can control is who we are and how we show up along the way.

Detach yourself from success or failure, and attach yourself to the process of growth. Be about getting better, about making progress.
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Keep chopping wood. 🪵🪓

-Kevin