Word-Of-the-Week #2020: Accomplished
February 26, 2026 by Susan Clarke
Accomplished – successfully completed; achieved.
Do you have confidence in yourself to set and achieve goals? Are you able to learn from your mistakes and keep moving forward?
This week features the second part of “If You’ve Already Accomplished These 11 Things, You’re More Successful Than An Average Person” by Alexandra Blogier at YourTango.com
To Recap: Everyone defines success differently. Some people measure success by career achievements, money, or material comfort, while others base it on strong relationships, emotional health, and how fulfilled they feel on a day-to-day basis. Success is personal, but that doesn’t mean it’s impossible to recognize. In fact, there are certain life accomplishments and internal shifts that quietly separate truly successful people from everyone else.
- You show up as your authentic self
- You commit to lifelong learning
- You set goals that actually matter to you
If you’ve established purposeful goals and worked toward achieving them, you’re more successful than an average person. Your goals shouldn’t be so huge that you can’t actually reach them. Goals should be practical and accessible, while pushing you to do your best work.
Coaches Orna and Matthew Walters share that the key to reaching your goals is building up confidence and believing you can get there, which can be done by adjusting your mindset.
“How you think about accomplishing your goals is just as important as the series of planned actions to achieve a goal,” they explain, noting that the first step to being confident and achieving your goals is to change your inner dialogue.
“How you speak to yourself has a direct effect on how you feel about yourself,” they reveal. You have to pay attention to how you speak to yourself and “notice if you’re kind and compassionate towards yourself or if you’re critical and judgmental.”
“In order to boost your confidence, speak to yourself in a way that empowers you to keep moving forward,” they advise.
“You’re only trying to be better today than you were yesterday,” they conclude. “Track your progress, let your efforts count, and continue to foster an inner dialogue that’s supportive.”
- You approach challenges as opportunities to grow
If you’ve shifted how you view challenges, you’re more successful than an average person. It’s easy to look at hardships as roadblocks that keep you from reaching your full potential. Yet the truth is that everyone’s life journey has its own challenges; it’s how you approach them that makes a difference.
Believing that you have the power to push through challenges requires shifting your mindset. As coach Alex Mathers explains, “The secret to achieving anything you want comes down to two words: Thinking small.”
“Wins feel good,” Mathers acknowledges. “Feeling good drives us forward, saturating our souls with creative power. Knowing that we can achieve is life-giving. Believing in ourselves and having the faith that we can achieve even the smallest success is vital.”
He shares that the key to success comes down to acknowledging your growth points while setting surmountable goals.
“All we need is for the steps to be small enough so that we can complete the task daily, despite our other commitments, and that we don’t stop doing them,” Mathers concludes.
Approaching challenges with persistence by taking small steps makes you more successful than an average person.
- You make mistakes and learn from them
You might think success is synonymous with perfection, but the reality is that those two things stand nowhere near each other. If you’ve made mistakes and owned your imperfections, you’re more successful than an average person. People who adopt a growth mindset are more likely to learn from mistakes and keep improving over time, instead of letting fear of failure stop them in their tracks.
Part of pushing yourself and aiming to win will inevitably mean losing. Not all the time, but at least some of the time, you won’t get what you want. The value of making mistakes can’t really be overstated, since doing things wrong is how you learn to get it right.
Part of accepting mistakes as inevitable involves having a growth mindset. While someone with a fixed mindset equates making mistakes with being a failure, having a growth mindset means you see mistakes as opportunities to learn and grow.
Being scared of mistakes will hold you back in life, as that fear means you won’t step out of your comfort zone to try something new. If you’re making mistakes, you’re already more successful than an average person.
This week’s focus is on being accomplished. Are your goals practical and accessible? Do you believe you have the power to push through challenges? Do you see mistakes as an opportunity to learn and grow?
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