This week is also about self-reflection, but is more focused on maintaining success.  This week’s blog is inspired by a colleague, her love of yoga, and some conversations we have had.

The reason I said maintaining success in the above paragraph is that anyone can achieve success once in a while.  The key is to maintain a level of success.  One thing that gets in the way of this is that people often talk about success like it is a final destination.  We talk about success and reaching the next level.  We talk about it like one day we will finish climbing a mountain or achieve something and shout to the stars, “I have arrived!”  Then, since we are in the land of success we will stroll in a lush valley and life will remain like this forever.  The problem is that it doesn’t work like that.  We don’t maintain success by just arriving.

Actually, maintaining success is like doing yoga.  Have you ever done yoga?  I’m not going to lie.  When I first started seeing people do that stuff, I thought, “How hard can doing stretches be?  Look at those people just standing still in tree pose or whatever.  That’s can’t be hard.”  And then I tried it and now I consider surviving the workout a major accomplishment.  I soon discovered that when you do a yoga pose you are not standing still.  You are not stagnant.  Instead, your body is constantly recalibrating in both large and small ways.  I understand that being good at yoga requires a combination of strength, flexibility, and control.  The result of exercising strength, flexibility, and control is balance.  Balance is not a stagnant state of being.  Balance is a state of constant movement and change.  Likewise, maintaining success is not a stagnant state of being.  Maintaining success is about consistently making adjustments.

Take a look in the mirror.  Are you consistently making those adjustments?

Have a jolly good day,

Andrew Embry