Success is finding a way to grow in the heart of a hopeless landscape. Now, that’s a great achievement!

I think of my father's passing and I think of how narrowly we define success. The culture sets the bar unnaturally, imagining success in linera, objective, externatlized terms. You are are success if you make a fortune, or become famous, or win awards. No, no success is actually something else, something more subtle and incremental, something internally trye and privately held. I think of my fahter's traumatic life and recognize what a prodound success it was for him to simply stay alive, to shift his lens toward positivity, to smooth the rough edges in life's fires. That alone was extraordinary. Success is finding a way to grow in the heart of a hopeless landscape. To that I bow. - Jeff Brown, Love it Forward