Welcome to today's episode of the Mindset Mentor podcast. I'm your host, Rob Dial. If you have

not yet done so, hit that subscribe button so you never miss another episode. I put out episodes

four times a week for almost 10 years now. So if you're ready to learn and grow and improve yourself,

hit that subscribe button. Follow along. It lets change your life. The first thing I think about when I

think about success is this is what does success mean to you? And, you know, when we're younger,

when I was younger specifically, success was only viewed through, I only viewed success through

money, how much money I make, all of that type of stuff. Now, when I see a successful person,

that has nothing to do with how much money they make. I would say more than anything else,

my definition of success is how free somebody is and how happy they are and how much joy and

peace they have in their life. I know people that are worth

billions of dollars that are stressed out every single day. I know people who are just getting by and

paying their bills and they're the most joyful, peaceful, happy people I know. I would not say that

the billionaire is more successful than those people who have ultimate

peace in their life. More than anything else, what does mean for you is what's important to think about?

When you look at success, a lot of people are like, I want to be successful. Well, what does that mean to you?

That's the first thing that I think that you really need to figure out. The second thing I'll tell you

is this is success is not

really a destination. It is more of a journey. It is more of something that you decide to work on

for a while. The way I like to think about is like the story of the Chinese bamboo. If you're unfamiliar

with the story of the Chinese bamboo, the older I get, the more I realize that the story of the Chinese bamboo is

so true. It's so much how life is. It's so much how quote unquote success is. The story of

the Chinese bamboo is that you plant the bamboo seed and you put it in the ground and you water it,

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