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Our lives have a life of their own, regardless of our external successes and failures.
Health and well-being in adulthood is not achieved through the accumulation of external successes, but rather through cleaning out your internal emotional closets.
I went into massive debt, developed a body image disorder (if I couldn't be perfect, I darn well better look perfect), and sunk into a deep depression when I no longer had external successes to cling to.
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I understand what it is like to have one's self entirely tied up with external success.
On the one hand, external success and the return of Golan could provide him with a domestic mandate to push reform past his new guard mafia.
At Lily's age, I was angry because I thought that my parents prized external success — e.g., my attending a fancy school — more than who I really was as a person.
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The analytical model used here is conceptually based on a micro-oriented total productivity approach (see Sahin 2012) Based on a comprehensive literature search on drivers of entrepreneurial performance, five major classes of input factors could be identified, namely: personal characteristics; size of enterprise; internal success factors; external success factors; and leadership factors.
As I shared in another post, despite achieving external "success" I never felt quite good enough.
External success -- a good practice, a flattering comment, public recognition -- feeds my ego, but only for that moment.
One theme connecting many of the above findings is that your internal wellbeing and external success are linked with serving something larger than just your own wants and desires.
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