Redefine the Win: Success On Your Terms
Written by
Janis Todd-Randall, BA, MA, EMBA
Stupidbubble Founder
Is success a six-figure salary, a three-car garage, a blue check? Cute—until the bill comes due on your soul.
Burst the bubble: “Success” as sold by society is an overhyped, over-glorified costume. Looks great in photos. Feels like a chokehold in real life.
The Traditional Success Trap
You were handed a checklist at birth: grades → degree → respectable job → house → retire quietly. If that’s your authentic path, salute. But for many, it’s debt, numbness, and just enough dopamine to keep you buying lattes and lies. If success is “follow the rules,” why does it feel like a cage?
Redefining the Win
What if success is waking up excited? Doing work that matters to you. Living with freedom, not performance—whether that’s building a company, crafting weird art in a basement, homeschooling your kids, or backpacking with a one-way ticket. Maybe success isn’t climbing the ladder. Maybe it’s setting it on fire and building your own ship.
Fail Fast, Win Harder
“Safe” is a myth people use to avoid the necessary bruise of becoming. Failure is the cover charge for reinvention. Oprah, Jobs, Rowling—rejection was the warm-up set. They didn’t avoid the fall; they metabolized it. Screw perfection. Ship, learn, upgrade. Repeat.
Success Is a Moving Target
There is no final “made it.” There’s only made next. Today’s win (pay the loan) becomes tomorrow’s stretch (launch the studio). As you grow, your definition must grow with you—or it will strangle you.
Your Success, Your Rules
Success is personal. It should make you feel alive, sharpen your character, and align with your values—even if it confuses the crowd. The only metric that matters: are you building a life you don’t need to escape?
Life Lesson
Define it, then design it. Write a one-sentence, numbers-free definition of success that centers freedom, impact, and joy—then build weekly systems that make it true.
The Stupidbubble Success Play (quick, practical)
- Write it (5 min): “Success for me is…” (no money/status words).
- Pick 3 weekly moves: one revenue move, one craft move, one relationship/health move.
- Schedule the reps: block them on your calendar first; everything else orbits you.
- Debrief Fridays: what worked, what didn’t, what to tweak. Iterate in public.
- Protect the inputs: unfollow what numbs you; follow what trains you.
Everybody has a stupidbubble. Some stay trapped. Some break it. We turn ours into power.
Bottom line: Burn the script that isn’t yours. Build the life that is.
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What’s your definition of success? Dawn your Stupidbubble T' and drop us a comment below—we’d love to hear your take!
