From the course: Arianna Huffington's Thrive 06: Understanding the Link between Giving and Success

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Defining your own success

Defining your own success

- As we are wrapping up not just this lesson, but this course, I hope this class has given you another way to move forward in your life, based on the timeless truth that life is shaped from the inside out. I wish I knew that when I was starting on my life. In fact, if I was giving any advice to my younger self, I would say just two things. Stop worrying so much and get more sleep. So, remember that when you get so busy that sleep is the first thing that goes. Remember to put your oxygen mask on first, and everything else will be easier and better. And also, the one thing that was so important to me as I look back is the realization that even the hardest, the most painful things that happen in our lives, we can overcome. As we practice these steps, it will get, in fact, easier to overcome them. The hardest thing that happened in my life was when I lost my first baby that was born stillborn. I was 36 years old. I had wanted to have children all my life. They didn't quite know why I had…

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