Success Isn’t What I Thought It Was

Published 2025-10-16 09-20

Summary

I just discovered something about success that completely changed how I see everything – the most important things in life can’t be measured at all.

The story

I just realized something writing Chapter 7 that honestly caught me off guard.

For years, I pushed the idea that success comes from the right habits, the right mindset, the right actions. And that’s all true. But I missed something fundamental.

We’re obsessed with measuring everything. How much money did I make? How many followers do I have? What title is on my business card?

But here’s what hit me: the things that actually matter can’t be measured at all.

Love. Wisdom. Inner peace. These aren’t KPIs. You can’t put them on a spreadsheet or track them in an app. Yet they’re the difference between a life that looks successful and one that feels successful.

I call it the Law of the Harvest in Chapter 7. You can’t rush a harvest. You plant seeds, you water them, you wait. No amount of hustling makes a seed grow faster. Nature has its own timeline, and so does genuine personal growth.

We’ve been trained to think that if we can’t measure it, it doesn’t count. But the most meaningful parts of life exist in that unmeasurable space. The quality of your relationships. The depth of your self-awareness. The alignment between who you are and who you’re becoming.

This chapter pushes beyond the tactical stuff I covered earlier in the book. It’s about shifting from chasing achievements to building something sustainable from the inside out. From external validation to internal alignment.

It made me rethink everything I thought I knew about success. And honestly? It’s the chapter I wish I could have read when I was 21, struggling to figure out why checking all the boxes still left me

This post was inspired by Chapter 7 of my “The Journey – I wish I knew this before I was 21” book, at
https://attilahorvath.net/the-journey.

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Keywords: GrowthMindset, unmeasurable success, life priorities, redefining achievement