Why Success Isn't One Size Fits All

News flash for you.

- Aleen Kuperman, Samantha Fishbein, and Jordana Abraham

Do you actually want to be successful? Based on all the career books out there, your immediate response is most likely, ‘Yeah, I wanna be a CEO! I wanna be sooo successful.”

But we have a news flash for you: Bosses rarely get to do the things they love. They have to make a lot of high-level decisions, and they probably enjoyed whatever they were doing right up until the point they got promoted. Yeah, it’s really great when you get a chic title and your fatter paycheck reflects that, but what people rarely tell you is that the C-suite life isn’t for everyone.

When you think about what kind of success you want, the goal is to be real with yourself about what you want to spend your time doing, and sometimes that thing is not leading a big team or being in charge. That doesn’t make you a failure.