Chasing Excellence

Chasing Excellence

Stop Moving the Goalposts

Daily Chase #147

Nov 25, 2025
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The most dangerous trap in building a career isn’t failure - it’s never defining what success actually looks like.

We spend years chasing an undefined target. We think we’ll know when we get there. We assume the feeling of arrival will be obvious. But without a clear definition of “made it,” we just keep moving the goalpos…

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