80 - Redefining Success How to Keep Moving When Pressure Changes the Plan
This video teaches how redefining success helps you persevere when plans collapse under pressure. Learn how adjusting your expectations builds resilience and keeps you moving forward even when conditions change dramatically.
Redefining Success How to Keep Moving When Pressure Changes the Plan
Ambitious goals often come with detailed preparation. You study. You train. You practice. You check every box you can. And for a while everything seems aligned with your plan. But pressure has a way of revealing variables you cannot control. When things begin to shift the most important decision you can make is to redefine what success means.
This video explores that lesson through the experience of running the 2023 Bank of Chicago Marathon. For the first twenty miles the race unfolded according to plan. The goal was clear. The pace was set. The preparation felt right. But at mile twenty one everything changed. The body gave out. Pain took over. And fear entered quickly. The goal of finishing in under four hours suddenly felt impossible.
In that moment success had to be redefined.
Not for motivation.
For survival.
Finishing the race became the new measure of success. Not the time. Not the pace. Not the perfect plan. Simply crossing the finish line in whatever form was possible.
Redefining success preserved momentum. It prevented collapse. And it transformed what could have been a moment of defeat into a moment of resilience.
Key Takeaways
1. Preparation cannot eliminate unpredictability
Even when you do everything right, circumstances can shift. Flexibility becomes just as important as preparation.
2. Pressure reveals whether your definition of success is rigid or adaptable
A rigid definition can break you. An adaptable one keeps you moving.
3. Redefining success maintains momentum
When the original goal becomes impossible you must anchor yourself to a goal that is still within reach. Movement matters more than perfection.
4. Success is not always about achieving the ideal outcome
It is often about refusing to quit. Finishing the marathon despite the pain represented greater strength than hitting a particular time ever could.
5. Adaptable goals build long term confidence
Each time you redefine success and persevere you reinforce the belief that you can handle whatever conditions arise.
Closing Insight
Pressure does not always ask you to be perfect. It asks you to be present. When you redefine success in the middle of chaos you reclaim your power. You give yourself permission to continue. And you discover a form of resilience that strict goals can never provide.
Watch the video to learn how redefining success can help you push through any challenge no matter how far off plan your journey becomes.
Highlights:
00:00 Starting an Ambitious Task
00:24 Facing Unexpected Challenges
00:45 Redefining Success
00:56 Crossing the Finish Line
00:57 Key Takeaway: Redefine Success
Links:
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Transcript:
When you've entered into a very ambitious and difficult task, and you felt that you had prepared the perfect way, you had done everything, you had checked every box to prepare for this, and then things start to go awry, or they start to go differently than you had planned. Redefine success. When I was running the 2023 Bank of Chicago Marathon at mile 21, my body just completely gave out on me and I wanted to stop because I also figured on top of so many other scary thoughts going through my mind, I'm not, there's no way I'm gonna make my mile time.
I'm not, I'm not gonna finish this marathon in under four hours. Redefine success at that point. I redefined success and success to me from there was just crossing the finish line even if I had to just limp my way to it. And that's actually what I did. So great thing to remember when performing under pressure, redefine success.
