Success at twenty-five looks different from success at fifteen. Let your definition grow up with you.

Definitions set early tend to stay put while everything else about you changes, and then you find yourself chasing something a younger version chose without much information. What counted as doing well at fifteen was probably about status and being seen; by twenty-five it is more likely to involve skill, money and people. Updating the target is not giving up on it, it is keeping it accurate.

Ask whether your current idea of doing well is one you chose recently or inherited from your younger self. Write a fresh version in a single sentence.