Sep 22, 2026 · 19 min · 8 segments
Survival Mode, Success Mode, Satisfaction: Which Level Are You Actually On? Lucy introduces the three-tier pyramid she's used with clients for over a decade: survival, success, and satisfaction. She…
Lucy ShrimptonHost
Okay, so let's talk about survival mode because you'll have been there at some point and maybe more than once as well.
It's that place where you need to make enough money to live, right? Now that number is irrelevant because this is gonna be completely different for everybody and anyone that's listening.
Where you live in the world, your circumstances, it's all of these things, you know, your dynamic, family dynamic, everything.
is going to make that unique to you but whatever it is to you you are in survival mode when you are like needing to do whatever it is you need to do in order to make enough money to live like that survival mode now once you make enough money to live to cover your your basic lifestyle then you move from survival mode into what I call success level but how we get there can be quite different so before we move on I'm just gonna talk about the different ways we might do that because this is going to resonate with you whether it's like you're remembering where you were at in your 20s or whether this is something you've revisited at various stages especially if you've been in the world of entrepreneurship for some time you undoubtedly would have gone here again and again in different businesses and it may be that you know you're be on survival mode with one business, but another business is actually in that mode, even if you aren't.
So there's lots of different ways of thinking about this, depending on who you are and how it applies to you.
But when we're in that survival mode, so you might start out like brand new entrepreneurship and you might be working in a job and you've got a job that you don't love, but it pays the bills and you've got this idea and you want to start a business.
And then you, maybe you start that business and this is when people do things like a side hustle or you start building that business whilst you still have the security of that job.
And then the idea being, hopefully, that that new business takes off and things get going and you build momentum and you replace your income.
And then maybe you can leave the job you don't like anymore and do the thing that you are loving and feel more passionate about and can make your money from that.
And if that's a very common story and if that's true and that works out for you, that's great.
Okay, so let's talk about survival mode because you'll have been there at some point and maybe more than once as well.
It's that place where you need to make enough money to live, right? Now that number is irrelevant because this is gonna be completely different for everybody and anyone that's listening.
Where you live in the world, your circumstances, it's all of these things, you know, your dynamic, family dynamic, everything.
is going to make that unique to you but whatever it is to you you are in survival mode when you are like needing to do whatever it is you need to do in order to make enough money to live like that survival mode now once you make enough money to live to cover your your basic lifestyle then you move from survival mode into what I call success level but how we get there can be quite different so before we move on I'm just gonna talk about the different ways we might do that because this is going to resonate with you whether it's like you're remembering where you were at in your 20s or whether this is something you've revisited at various stages especially if you've been in the world of entrepreneurship for some time you undoubtedly would have gone here again and again in different businesses and it may be that you know you're be on survival mode with one business, but another business is actually in that mode, even if you aren't.
So there's lots of different ways of thinking about this, depending on who you are and how it applies to you.
But when we're in that survival mode, so you might start out like brand new entrepreneurship and you might be working in a job and you've got a job that you don't love, but it pays the bills and you've got this idea and you want to start a business.
And then you, maybe you start that business and this is when people do things like a side hustle or you start building that business whilst you still have the security of that job.
And then the idea being, hopefully, that that new business takes off and things get going and you build momentum and you replace your income.
And then maybe you can leave the job you don't like anymore and do the thing that you are loving and feel more passionate about and can make your money from that.
And if that's a very common story and if that's true and that works out for you, that's great.
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