There are some days in our lives where everything seems to be stacked against us. The bills are piling up as if they’re trying to make friends with the ceiling, the car is making a noise you can only assume is a precursor to a fiery explosion, and your business seems to have screeched to a halt.

Any of those sound familiar? If not then count your blessings!

For the rest of us, it’s sometimes hard to image that success is anywhere in the vicinity much less close enough for us to grasp. Though in truth, it could simply be that your measure of success is just a millimeter away.

So How Do You Find Your Measure of Success?

First off, you have to understand what success means to you, because it’s different for everybody. For me, it’s simply being able to make enough money so that my brother and I don’t have to worry so much. I don’t need to be filthy rich with a mansion and 20 cars, I simply want to be comfortable.

Though what I consider success may not be what you consider it to be. So for you, the idea of living in a mansion and having more cars than you could ever possibly drive, is the epitome of success. Which is absolutely cool, by the way.

So your measure of success may be when you start making a certain amount of money. Or, it could be when you’ve paid off all of your debt.

The problem is that this can sometimes feel like it’s miles and miles away from where you are right now.

Doesn’t it seem as if it’s over the hill, through the woods, and somewhere down the rabbit hole?

Your Measure of Success Is A Millimeter Away

Though according to Tony Robbins, who is a master of learning to reshape our thinking, “when it seems impossible, when it seems like nothing is going to work, you’re usually just a few millimeters away from making it happen.” It’s not some insurmountable distance. It’s really only a matter of 1 or 2 degrees in either direction.

It’s like being in the cockpit of an airplane and setting a course for New York City, but you were one degree off when putting in your destination. So instead of landing in New York, you end up in Boston. It was a mere 1 degree yet it took you miles off course.

So when you start to feel as though success is somewhere in the far away distance, just think, you’re probably only a few degrees away from where you want to be.

Shift your mindset just slightly in a different direction and see if your course doesn’t get back on track for you to reach your own measure of success.