My success is life-changing!

Success gets described afterward, in a sentence. Living through it feels like an ordinary week where one thing went differently.

The life-changing part is rarely the moment itself. It's what happens downstream — the work you can now refuse, the call you make without rehearsing it first, the fact that you sleep.

If you're waiting for the change to announce itself, you'll miss it. Look for the small permissions instead. What could you say yes to now that you couldn't have last year?