Hey there, it's Chase. Welcome to today's micro show. I was thinking a while back about

a predicament I was. And I had grown my business at the time to somewhere around, let's say, 25,

25 in change million in annual revenue. And the business was still growing at 40% year over year. So you do the math.

So these are the metrics. And I'll never forget, an investor looked me straight in the face.

With a head tilt and a shoulder shrug, he said that the business growth that I was killing

myself for, quote, just wasn't that interesting.

And I'm like, 25 million growing 40% year every year, not interesting. Wait, W-T-A-F. I swear, I swear

this is true. This comment was so disjointed from my reality that it led me to a take that I've had ever since and I've come to understand something a little bit better. And it's this. Success isn't real. Now I understand the word and I understand the concept,

but success at best is a fleeting concept and it's made up by people like you and me.

And clearly that investor who didn't think of the work that we were doing as successful.

Success is a moving target that we think we've defined for culture or community or whoever the players are,

but it's really only something that we can ever define for ourselves.

And yet we forget this all the time. I forget this all the time.

We all do. We forget that it's all relative to one another, right, to the market, whatever that

means. And hell, on any given day of my life, up until the conversation that I had on that afternoon, success might have been

as random as whatever way the wind was blowing. And yet, from that day on, I made a commitment to

myself. I committed to never leaving the fate of my most important dreams and projects and goals. I committed to

never leave those dreams open to the criticisms and the opinions of those who weren't in the

arena with me. Now, if you're not familiar with what I mean around in the arena, look up

Brune Brown in the arena quote. It's a quote from theater. Roosevelt. It's really,

really interesting. But I want to get distracted because I want to stay on topic. And the topic is

we got to go out with the idea of the gold watch and the Ferrari as success status

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