Thank you so much for participating in the Simply Successful Secrets project!

I didn’t make it any farther than your very first item before I recognized a powerful success strategy – that of constantly re-assessing where you are with regard to your goals.

OBSESSING about it would not be a good thing, but being constantly aware of whether or not you are on track is not a bad thing – in my humble opinion anyway.

I also love what you said about following your creative impulse, because I think that is a success strategy for life in general, not just for getting work done. If all we ever did was what we felt we were SUPPOSED to be doing, life would be boring!

I agree with Joseph Campbell: “Follow Your Bliss!”

Thanks again for sharing your wisdom, Nancy!

It does raise the question of how one defines “success.” And I do take tremendous satisfaction in being able to live a life where people actually read things I write. And come to my classes and write down things I say! Amazing, what privilege!

On being nice. I was in a parking-lot-to-airport shuttle the other day and got into a conversation with a man who, upon discovering I’m a Communication professor, asked me how to improve communication in marriage (the conversations that happen in shared transportation!). I said it’s making a daily and moment-by-moment decision to treat one another with kindness and respect. Rules to live by #1.

“I try to be nice to everyone I meet. If I just *can’t* be nice, I try to be kind.”

Don’t know how you’re defining “success,” but you’ve been successful enough to get this old uke-phreak in Seattle to subscribe to and eagerly anticipate your blog postings.

HH