What is Success?
As it is said: success means different things to different people. After 30 years of navigating the fine line between a fulfilling personal life and professional success, Todd Millar has found the secret to his success and uses his personal experiences to help people find theirs.
At the pinnacle of his career, Todd reveals, “I made a choice to unplug and leave behind the executive rockstar style lifestyle of private planes, high class hotels, and black stretch limos,” the Calgary, Canada-based lifestyle strategist says. “The phone rang and rang and then it stopped. During that time, I reacquainted myself with my wife and kids and found a purpose in helping others. I started thinking about how my story could inspire others and possibly assist them in achieving their own goals and ambitions.”
Millar experienced what he calls the “golden handcuffs” which represents the addictive cycle of “it’s never enough” – being tied to the endless cycle of pursuing the next big deal, no matter the costs. Millar’s current life’s work has been devoted to helping people break free from this toxicity and have fuller, healthier lives while still staying headstrong in their commitment to their ambitions. All companies have core values its employees adhere to, but how often – while scrambling up the ladder—do executives neglect their own personal core values? Success shouldn’t come at the sacrifice of our health or the demise of our personal or domestic lives. In Millar’s world view, those should be our governing ideals. “It’s definitely a tough challenge to hold fast to our core personal values and really embrace them when we’re trying to keep up with the Joneses,” Millar allows. “But if you live by those values, you can have it all — both success and a full, healthy and balanced life.
Millar puts people back in touch and newly in line with life’s basics. His lifestyle philosophy is elemental and accessible; it combines emboldening self-belief tenets with fundamental “golden rule” ethos but it enriches this by looking at life holistically. “They’re really simple principals; it’s about maintaining a balanced life.” Millar explains. “You can have success, however you define it. You just have to make the right choices in your life to make it happen.”
“I have discovered that by sharing the stories about my life in the business world and talking to CEOs, I can inspire others to have their own insight towards their journeys,” Millar says. “There is power in choice, and we often forget that and stay tied to the golden handcuffs. We have to remember there are different roads to explore and better balances in life, and those begin with the choices we make for ourselves.”
Contact Todd Millar to learn his prinicples of success and how you can start applying these to your own life