3799: Build A Life Based on Your Own Definition of Success, Not Everyone Else’s Definition by Shawna Scafe

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Education, Mental Health, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 7 November 2025

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Discover all of the podcasts in our network, search for specific episodes, get the Optimal Living Daily workbook, and learn more at: OLDPodcast.com. Episode 3799: Shawna Scafe challenges the conventional, one-size-fits-all idea of success and invites us to redefine it based on what truly fulfills us, not what society expects. By exploring your own gifts, passions, and desires without an audience or external validation, you begin to build a life rooted in authenticity and joy. Read along with the original article(s) here: https://simpleonpurpose.ca/redefine-life-success/ Quotes to ponder: "Success implies that we are in a great state of life. Therefore, we ‘ought’ to be happy and well-off." "We work hard to ‘get’ success, and then work hard to maintain it and then get sick of working hard to live a life that we aren’t all that passionate about." "Success is a quality of living. And living can only be done well when it is done in the way that fulfills you as an individual." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Before we start, I want to share a super powerful practice I use called NSDR, or non-sleep, deep rest.
0:06.6	In just about 10 minutes or so, this yoga-needra practice leaves you feeling as refreshed as after a nap without actually sleeping.
0:15.0	Experience it for yourself on our guided podcast. Search NSDR and look for the one from Optimal Living Daily.
0:24.1	This is Optimal Living Daily. Build a life based on your own definition of success,
0:29.5	not everyone else's definition by Shauna Scafe of SimpleOn Purpose.cai, and I'm Justin Mollick.
0:36.1	This is the award-winning podcast where I read articles to you
0:39.2	to add a little bit of inspiration, motivation, or happiness to your day. A short daily practice
0:45.9	really does go a long way. And this is all with permission from the authors or websites,
0:50.4	just so you know. But with that, let's get right to it as we optimize your life.
0:58.8	Build a life based on your own definition of success, not everyone else's definition,
1:04.2	by Shauna Scafe of Simple On Purpose.C.A. Success. We all want it, but we rarely put any personal clarification behind what it ought to mean to us.
1:15.7	We want success because success means we did things, quote-unquote, right. Success implies that we are in a
1:22.5	great state of life, therefore we ought to be happy and well off. But we spent our whole lives sharing one common
1:29.7	Western definition of a successful person. We were conditioned to think it means getting good
1:35.7	grades, graduating from a good school, always making safe decisions, maintaining a stable job,
1:42.8	owning a nice new-ish house, happily raising happy kids, having an
1:48.1	effortless marriage to a passionate, caring spouse. Oh, and maybe toss in some vacations,
1:53.9	an elliptical machine, cute shoes, local artisan cheeses, and, duh, the self-cleaning espresso
2:00.5	machine.
2:01.6	Hashtag blessed. Don't even get me started.
2:04.8	I'm not saying these things are bad. I love my brie, my overpriced conditioner, and my Apple TV.
2:11.2	I'm saying these aren't what make me successful or determine my happiness.
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