The other day I was asked to speak with the members of the board at the agency I work for about what it is like to be a child therapist , what my day is like and things like that. “Just tell one of your success stories,” I was advised. “No problem,” I thought to myself. “This will be easy.” So I began thinking … thinking … thinking. After about 10 minutes, I was feeling pretty down because I could not think of a single “success” story. All kinds of questions were running through my mind at once, and I was having some difficulty sorting them all out: Do I suck at my job? What’s wrong with me? Am I too hard on myself? So I began reconsidering (which is the thing that got me in a bad position in any case). Rather than concentrating intensely for some wonder tale about how I was the mental Sherpa for a poor stranded soul to explore the tricky voyage to wellbeing, I started to consider the general conceptualization of the expression "achievement." Achievement is a
