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What success means to me?

October 13, 2025

I'm Natalie
Natalie is certified by the International Coaching Federation through Collective Change Institute's Professional Coaching and Advanced Coaching Programs. She’s also a coach at Google, where she leads workshops and is on the internal coaching panel for her colleagues. 

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Success isn’t about how your life looks to others. It’s about how it feels to you.” - Michelle Obama

I just saw this quote on my Momentum tab and felt it deeply.

It’s so easy to chase the version of success that looks right – the one that makes sense on paper, the one others will understand.

It’s tangible, it’s clear, it’s direct.

But when you actually get there, sometimes it just… doesn’t feel good or it’s incredibly short-lived.

And we start chasing the next goal for that next dopamine hit.

I’ve seen it in clients and in myself – moments where everything looks fine from the outside, yet inside there’s a quiet restlessness.

A sense that something’s missing.

So we talk a lot about alignment.

The calm that comes when what you do, want, and believe are finally moving in the same direction.

For years, I was trying to re-define what success is to me. For now my definition of success is a life that feels like mine.

When my choices match my values.

When I wake up and my body feels more at peace.

As we begin to wind down the year (gosh, I am already seeing Christmas posters), a good check-in question to think about:

What’s my version of success that actually feels good to me?

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