Do you consider yourself successful? How does society define success? Are the traditional benchmarks for success in alignment with our core values?

In this video we discuss the concept of shifting scales, moving from the traditional 'success scale' to a 'scale of significance'. Redefining a successful life as one that asks us to evaluate the impact we have on others.

Changing how we measure our lives helps us cut through the *bs* that has become the 'commercialization of success'. Society sells a superficial, socially-constructed version of what it means to be successful in life, and to some degree or another we've all bought into it.

The overarching theme in this video is one of growing our own self-awareness. I've always said that self-awareness is a super-power and investing in your *self* is the very best investment anyone can make.

The significance scale asks us to be introspective, it asks us to first understand who we are and who we want to be, then it demands we chase that which is purposeful. Our self-discovery of purpose is the first step towards self-actualization.

When we change the metrics, the parameters, of what a successful person looks like, we change our world.

Do my actions positively impact those around me? Do I pursue things in life that are meaningful? How can I add value to others? Do I strive for self-significance or to be successful in the eyes of society? Am I kind? Loving?

If you can make a meaningful difference in just one person's life, to me, that kind of positive impact is what being successful in life truly looks like.

—ewitty