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I had a conversation recently with a woman who complained about being desperately frustrated and dissatisfied with her life, yet when I asked her what her hopes and dreams where, she quickly admitted that she had no clue. After talking with the woman, I walked away thinking that she was actually very successful. You see, she was getting out of life exactly what she was putting into it. She was getting a return on her investment, and by all measures, that is the definition of success.

The problem with so many of us is not that we can’t succeed, but in fact we don’t realize that we are already succeeding…just not at the things we wish we were succeeding at. We are getting a return on our investment; it’s just we’re investing in the wrong things. For so many of us, we simply invest in the stock of surviving. Since most of us are surviving, at the very least, we must conclude that our investments are succeeding.