Redefining Success: A Millenial's Perspective

Do you find yourself looking at other friends on Facebook asking, “Do they have a better life then me?” Or maybe questioning your own life saying, “Why am I not happy, I’ve done everything that I was supposed to.”

If you were born between 1980 and 2000 then you’re considered a part of the millennial generation. And there are some blanket generalizations about the millennials that aren’t necessarily true.

In this video I’m going to first share with you the old wise dead adages of our family’s generation, then I’m going to compare, contrast, and redefine the traditional definition of success. Finally, I’ll give you some tips on how to successfully navigate these turbulent waters so you can start stepping into a life defined by your own thinking and creation. Not by the thoughts and creations of a dying generation and world. We’ve been passed down some bullshit external vision of happiness aka the perfect relationship, a big house, stability with a job. But what about defining an inner vision for success.

Many of the older generations think that the millennials are lazy, unproductive, unfocused, unclear, and uncertain. While some of these may be true many of them are false. Let’s start with uncertain. Hell yes we’re uncertain. Look at the world we grew up in. A nuclear age where we almost blew up the planet three times over (the cold war), constant war and violence on the media, alcoholism and drug addiction everywhere especially with the generation above us. Why in the hell shouldn’t we be uncertain?

I don’t trust the conventional wisdom that was handed down to me because when I look at the world around me that was created by this so called conventional wisdom I think to myself, “What a shit show, can I really trust them.” No I cannot. I see many people in the older generation as being miserable, depressed, entertainment or drug and alcohol addicted of some sort because they’re distracting themselves from their own real-issues.

Unfocused. Yes, definitely a bit. We’re too busy understanding the chaotic world that we grew up in trying to figure out how it got to be this way and what we can do to fix it and how we can not end up like our parents and grandparents. Our own internal sense of fulfillment matters to and it’s worth taking time to sit a couple of plays out.

Unfocused is just another word for taking a couple steps back and understanding the situation and deck of cards that our last generation handed down. We’d like to hand down a better world to our own kin right? That’s going to take some time to reflect. The very nature of being unfocused allows our awareness to expand and see the bigger picture of how all parts are interacting. It’s called Systems Theory in the academic world.

Success has been defined by the baby boomer definition of having a house with a white picket fence, a happy marriage with kids, a stable job, and a retirement pension. I have nothing wrong with any of these things. Except for kids. We don’t need to populate the world anymore. There’s nearly 8 billion of us already and how many of that 8 billion are emotionally and financially responsible grown adults ready to have kids of their own. Not a lot. I have a problem with all of these things if you are using entertainment, alcohol and drugs, and other forms of addiction to get through life. Don’t give up your own internal happiness and fulfillment to create an external vision for your life. That was our fall from grace.

The millennial definition of success is drastically different from the generations before. We want internal happiness and fulfillment before the external appearance of wealth and success. Simply put we ask for a meaningful and purposeful life before we ask for the big house, fancy car, and trophy spouse and kids. Why have the latter if you can’t have the former? We care about internal happiness and satisfaction more then a social face.

We care about our internal world more then our external. And that’s a good thing because we’re physical tearing apart this planet and emotionally tearing a part one another and ourselves to achieve some modicum of external success. The saddest thing about this is when we live this way we aren’t even living for ourselves. We’re living for others. We are literally living for the appearance of how others see us. Or better yet how we think others may see us. Objectively speaking they may not even see us that way.

If you’re a millennial, like me, and you’re following a traditional path and aren’t happy then make a change. Learn to use discretion about the vision of success that you’ve been given. Keep the parts that you want and leave the parts that don’t resonate or feel right to you. We live in a world with unlimited possibilities. We can try and do new things at the drop of a hat.

We can be on the other side of the planet in half day if we have two week’s worth of a paycheck. So much opportunity and variety is available to us. Take your time, but hurry up. What does that mean? Like most truths it’s a paradox. Take your time and take a few breaths to figure out and find out what really matters to you in life and what is really worth pursuing. And understand that it will change as you evolve and grow. Now, hurry up and realize that you’re going to die and won’t be around here forever. Do you really have the time to live a secure and stable life of 40 years that isn’t full of passion. The choice is yours.

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