Success

We are not meant to ignore our talents and we should seek to live out our full potential. However, living out your full potential also is about living out your full potential for positive mental health. We must broaden our view of success to include positive mental health as a component of how we define success in the world. Otherwise our desire for worldly success can run roughshod and ruin our mental health outcomes.   

The desire for worldly recognition, in itself, can lead to a mental health crisis. It causes confusion. We want to know who we are and where we stand when it comes to ranking and worldly standards. But worldly standards are not necessarily comprehensive ones. Nor are they accurate reflections of our inherent worth and dignity. They mislead us. Focusing on self-inflation as the singular object of life causes continual unrest and ruin.


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