You need a success-map that’s up to date.

Hi everyone, 

I’ve had a slew of autumn workshops and, stepping into a new cold season, I am already planning deep into 2026–which is hard to believe. 

As I’ve been thinking ahead, I have several options for how I want myself and my work to be in the next few months, but often the ways I spend my time come from last year’s measuring metrics. 

In other words, time is always moving forward, but our forms of measurement are (necessarily) rooted to some extent in the past. 

Or, in other-other words from Marshall Goldsmith: “What Got Me Here Won’t Get Me There.”

Here is this month’s reflection question: 

What would new measures of success look like for you?

For us at Sway, we’ve been taking the last few months to try to establish new norms and think about what’s really important to us, what produces R.O.I., and how to build better, more-human leaders for what will hopefully be a decent future.

I’ve also been re-thinking my capacities as I age and as I deal with new needs coming from my emergent health condition. As I’ve been doing these things, I’ve had to redefine what success means and find multiple different measurements that tell me whether or not I’m doing a good job in the day-to-day.

The whole process has led me to wonder what our other measures of success could be? What would your company’s other measures of success be? What about yours? How different would our world be if we were a little more attentive to other definitions?

Happy to be leading with you,

Ashlee