I Had a Million Dollar Year, And Felt Emptier Than Ever

I know I’m “successful” when…

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Have you ever had a million-dollar year?

Seriously.

I really want to know if you’ve had a million-dollar year. A year where you literally, not figuratively, get to put 7-figures in your bank. A time when you could log into your account and see a number that was equal to or greater than USD 1,000,000.00.

I have.

Seriously. I have. You see, in my past life, I was a startup founder and CEO.

Sure, yeah, I’m a registered nurse, and the mistake many folks make is that they define themselves by their vocation.

I did that too until I realized that I was putting myself in a box.

Then one day, I broke outta that damn box and started a company. It went on to make a shit ton of money. My life, and the life of my family, changed forever.

But I’m not gonna write today about that million-dollar journey. I’m not gonna write about how a fella who is “just a nurse” founded a firm that produced over $300 million in gross revenues. I’m not gonna write about any of that.

I want to share my old and now my new views on what success is.