No matter what your goals are both professionally and personally, we all have a vision of what it will look like when we reach that milestone. Every success we crave looks like something or feels like something we are striving to create. However, what you’re looking for may not appear how you envisioned it.

Even in terms of success, that big house, that loaded bank account even that perfect job (if there is such a thing) may not turn out to be what you pictured when your dreams become a reality.

I had that epiphany recently. Success for me was never solely defined by getting published. Afterall, what happens next, after you’ve already done that. I don’t mean to make it sound easy–it’s not. But once you are published; then what? I guess you could do it again and again while your writing improves and you gather a bigger following.

I”m still very early in my writing journey but I realized that success for me wasn’t defined by freelancing and writing books alone. I had never planned on building a blog and yet, it is probably one of my deepest joys. I did full-time freelancing and found that I liked coupling that with traditional work as better.

As a writer, don’t be afraid to adjust your definition for success. As you grow, what you deem success to be will grow and evolve with you. Here’s to your goals and your continued success, however, you choose to define it.

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