The 10 *secrets* to becoming HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL (but also happy) - PART 1

Principle number one, believe that you can have both.

I used to be so caught up in the mindset that success required endless sacrifice and that if you wanted to be anything above mediocre, then you had to like sacrifice your entire life and just work 24 seven.

Thankfully, my mindset around that has now changed.

However, it started with the belief that I actually could do it, that I could have both.

Also, I'm not sure if you can see him, but my cat is asleep in the background.

There he is.

I actually have been sleeping in this room, which we literally just built.

And I'm sorry if my microphone is a bit echoey because this room doesn't have much sound proofing at the moment, as in like there's not that much furniture.

So I'm sorry if this episode is a little bit more echoey, but hopefully it's not too bad.

Anyways, if you don't believe that you can have something, you are obviously never going to have it because you are never going to try and pursue it.

I will admit though, there is a very persuasive trope around the person who becomes super successful and they're like a millionaire and they're a CEO and they have a white picket fence, but then they're not really happy.

And yes, that can happen if that's all that you believe that success is about, about the numbers and the titles and the land.

But the reasoning why so many people will become, you know, quote unquote successful, but not actually happy is because they get on what's called a hedonic treadmill.

Basically, what that is, is that that's when we believe that the next achievement or the next income bracket or the next 100,000 followers is the thing that's going to finally make us happy.

But then our brain has a really fun habit of actually adapting our happiness to a very similar baseline level of success, regardless of how much or little we have.

And so any of those extra achievements or things that we kind of consume don't actually make us happy.

And so we just chase more to try and fill that hole and it never gets filled.

The alternative, however, is to actually enjoy living your life in pursuit of your goals, which is something that I'm going to break down a little bit more later.

But in order to believe that, you need to believe that it's possible.

And if you need, I can be that example for you.

If you go follow my Instagram at ByAriaBradley, then you'll see that it is possible.

Like every single week, I'm doing stuff to fill up my cup and enjoy my life, but also work really, really hard and achieve some really big goals.

So if you want that inspiration, go follow my Instagram.

I believe in you.