{"id":5211,"date":"2021-07-07T17:03:05","date_gmt":"2021-07-07T17:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/constantinconsulting.ch\/personal-branding-sucks\/"},"modified":"2023-08-03T18:26:45","modified_gmt":"2023-08-03T18:26:45","slug":"personal-branding-sucks-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/constantinconsulting.ch\/en\/personal-branding-sucks-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Personal Branding sucks"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Success is everything! You must have heard that before, right?<\/p>\n

During my last few coaching sessions the question regarding this beautiful word has surfaced again and again. In fact, one coaching session was explicitly about finding the client\u2019s own definition of success. I mean, that\u2019s in my tagline, so it makes sense that I love to work on this theme a lot \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

Most people have this belief that success must be defined in one sentence. That\u2019s it. Short and sweet. But, when you take a closer look at the topic, you realize that it is far more difficult and complex. At least for me, and as it appears for most of my clients, too.<\/p>\n

Some people might think that success has to do with luck. That\u2019s not true at all.  <\/p>\n

Some people might think that success is synonymous with a steep career. During a study conducted by YouGov, who interviewed approx. 2000 persons online on behalf of LinkedIn in 2017 showed interesting results. LinkedIn wanted to find out how employees defined success for themselves and how this is linked to their job. The results showed that for a fulfilled life, professional performance is still a component, but no longer decisive. In fact, personal well-being, like being happy or healthy was ranked most important (72%). These were the other important success defining statements in percentages: a stable social environment (55 %), having a family (49 %) and spending time with family and friends (48 %), the possibility to travel (44 %) and to have time for hobbies (41 %). A healthy work-life balance was seen by 32 % as the greatest success.<\/p>\n

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To define what success is, no matter whether at work or\/and in our personal life we need to ask ourselves many questions. What are our values? I wrote about this some time ago here on LinkedIn. What do we want to achieve? What lifestyle do we want to have? What do we need to change in the current situation to get there?<\/p>\n

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For me personally success means<\/p>\n

\ud83d\udd89 to lead a self-determined life. This is highly important to me, especially since I grew up in a communistic dictatorship until the revolution in 1989 in Romania. I value independence and freedom; I value that I\u2019m able to do what I want, where I want and how I want, even with the current restrictions in place.<\/p>\n

\ud83d\udd89 to set myself goals, but only compare myself again my own standards<\/p>\n

\ud83d\udd89 to keep myself challenged by constantly learning and by finding new ways of doing things, no matter if working or at home. My husband likes to say, that I\u2019m a constant retrofitter.<\/p>\n

\ud83d\udd89 leave my comfort zone. I don\u2019t always like to get out of my comfort zone, but I do realize that when I take the step, it is so fulfilling and I develop much faster.<\/p>\n

\ud83d\udd89 to always know my values and live by my values. This means, that my values are present, and I regularly check in on my behavior and also my relationships with customers and people around me, to find out if I can be true to myself.<\/p>\n

\ud83d\udd89 that I\u2019m in the comfort of being able to experience a good lifestyle. This doesn\u2019t involve expensive material things, even though, I do like techy stuff and gadgets. Being able to travel, even if only in Switzerland, enjoying good food, having enough spare time for friends and family, that makes my lifestyle perfect for me, that\u2019s when I feel successful.<\/p>\n

\ud83d\udd89 to be my own boss. I enjoy doing the things I love, and I found that what I love, I tend to be good at.<\/p>\n

\ud83d\udd89 to feel happy, satisfied and fulfilled. This is a sensation I want to strengthen by doing a gratefulness exercise every day. I realize that when I do take the time to really reflect on what I have managed to pull together in my life, during easy times but also during very difficult times, I am so happy, and grateful.<\/p>\n

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So here is the question to you. What does success mean to you, for you?<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Success is everything! You must have heard that before, right? During my last few coaching sessions the question regarding this beautiful word has surfaced again and again. In fact, one coaching session was explicitly about finding the client\u2019s own definition of success. I mean, that\u2019s in my tagline, so it makes sense that I love […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3906,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/constantinconsulting.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5211"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/constantinconsulting.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/constantinconsulting.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/constantinconsulting.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/constantinconsulting.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/constantinconsulting.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/constantinconsulting.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/constantinconsulting.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/constantinconsulting.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/constantinconsulting.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}