The REAL meaning of success... and how to achieve it

Following my last blog about embracing failure, I was moved to write a few words about success - and how this too has been misinterpreted in our culture, in a way that really doesn't serve us and our happiness. 

I write these words from a fancy 5 star hotel in Rajasthan that I’m currently living in with my boyfriend (his work is paying for it!), which is a very new experience for me. I’m more used to crumbling guest houses with damp in the walls, or maybe a “shabby chic” beach hut if I’m lucky (in Thailand we managed to land a DREAM beach house but it did also have walls full of termites and cockroaches!)

Being in this shiny, perfumed paradise, with a massive bed like a cloud and every need catered for is, of course, lovely but the novelty is wearing off.

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How to embrace failure (and let it lead to success)

It’s weird but I feel kind of nervous sitting down to write about this topic… I have a sick, heavy feeling in my stomach right now and a thudding heart. And yet, I know that I can’t allow myself to run away from the prospect of failure yet again. Not this time.

If you’re anything like me, you’ll have grown up believing that failure is something to be avoided at all costs.

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