I’m so happy you’re here! The Defining Your Professional Success course was created to help you figure out how to define success for yourself and how to understand the full spectrum of a successful life. As we define our truth, values, vision for our lives, and professional definition of success, we also decide what's relevant and what's not. This lets us focus on what's important and filter out the rest.

Success is not black and white, it's not binary and it's not a switch you either flip on or off. This course will help you figure out how you define success for yourself, and how to understand the full spectrum of a successful life. In this introduction we’ll start learning about how to journal to make the most out of this course, as well as start defining what really brought you here and why this is important right now.

In this lesson we’ll work on defining what success means to you. Success can be defined in many ways and from many perspectives. It is commonly defined in a very concrete and accomplishment-driven manner. In this lesson we will consider the different ways that success can be perceived and see which one of them resonates most with you.

Success can take various forms, but our personal perceptions of achievement define it. In this lesson we’ll see how that overlaps with our values. We will classify and define our top values in a very hands on way that will help us clarify the ones that are most important to us.

In this lesson we’re going to define success and failure in regards to the values we picked. It's important to reflect on success and failure when considering our values because that's how we'll internally measure whether or not we're succeeding in the things that are important to us. 

Now that we know what’s important to us, how well we’re able to achieve it is also not black and white. There's a spectrum of what we can achieve every day. Knowing what is on our spectrum helps us understand how successful we are in accomplishing the things we set out to do. In this lesson we’ll create your personal chart to understand how your values fit on the spectrum.

In this lesson, you get to practice how to apply this to your life.  You will pick one or two elements in your life that you want to evaluate (present or future) and use your chart to help figure out how it aligns with your personal definition of success.

Learning how to incorporate gray areas, nuances and spectrums into how we think about ourselves is very helpful. Now, let’s see if we can apply this to how we perceive others. It can reduce judgement and introduce some awareness to internal thought patterns.

In this final lesson of the course, we're going to take a look back at what you were hoping to accomplish and how you feel about it now. And make sure that we both celebrate our accomplishment and plan how we’re going to use these learnings in the future.