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REDEFINING success

If I were to ask you to define ‘success’, what would you say? Would you describe the corporate executive who has climbed the career ladder and now earns a seven-figure salary? The social entrepreneur, a renowned keynote speaker and bestselling author? Or the friend who seems so content with her life?

It might sound idealistic and privileged to spend time on the semantics of defining success. Most of us will go through our lives keeping busy, always working towards that next milestone, never stopping to think if it’s what we really want. But what happens when we don’t define what ‘success’ means to us?

Time to reappraise

There are moments in life that prompt us to question what truly matters – when we become parents, or lose a loved one. Or when global

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