Success is Relative

I grew up 4 years behind a straight A’s, teachers favorite, genius sister, so growing in her shadow was challenging. It took me years to understand this one thing: success is relative. We spend our lives comparing ourselves to others: peers, social media influencers, friends, family, everyone. We must remember to not evaluate our success based on the accomplishments of others but the adversity we face and the growth that follows.

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Owning Your Story Requires the Strength of a Hero.

The Hero's Journey has been so popularized, my daughter refers to it as cliche (a gut punch to a once psychology turned English major). So, let’s talk about the journey as it was before it became part of an assignment-- a story. Before psychology and English professors jumped on the bandwagon, the Hero’s Journey was our pocket manual on how to become better humans. It taught us how to use each part of our lives as a pathway toward integrity.

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Just Chill and Learn

’m sitting in the back of a long room with 3 successful business professionals answering questions about what their college degrees have to do with their current career path. (Spoiler alert: Each of them aren’t doing anything related to their undergrad degree!!) As one of the professionals states, our purpose as students is to “chill and learn” . It's as if my entire college experience flashed before my eyes. Instead of feeling nostalgic about the past four years, I found myself feeling moments of regret.

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