To define success, this can always be a tricky one. Success is easily defined in a million different ways. For me personally, I think it comes down to two different factors, both of which are in my control.
The first is enjoyment, happiness. The ability to find a place that you truly belong and be able to fit in. What makes sim leagues so popular for people is the ability to find community where you can joke and rib each other, but you find a group of people who truly care about something you do too and to be able to relate to others in that way. Humans naturally congregate and this is a way that we are able to do that and find people who truly do care for one another, even when we sometimes struggle to show that.
That enjoyment drives the next part, which is to earn TPE at a good rate. I never want to be behind in TPE, it's just not a good feeling to me. For some people, it's fine. And this isn't to say that min-max earners, or just steady earners are a bad thing. That's fine for some people. However, for me, I'm just not comfortable being that person. I'm very all or nothing on these leagues, and in this situation I'm very all at this point. I have full control of that, and so by being able to enjoy my time in this league I feel more driven to earn and by earning more the better my player should do and I will continue to feel good.
Basically, as my wife has often quoted, positivity builds on positivity. The more you build that positivity, the more you get positivity back. And so for me, helping to push in that positivity and build on that constantly is the biggest success I can have in this league.
The first is enjoyment, happiness. The ability to find a place that you truly belong and be able to fit in. What makes sim leagues so popular for people is the ability to find community where you can joke and rib each other, but you find a group of people who truly care about something you do too and to be able to relate to others in that way. Humans naturally congregate and this is a way that we are able to do that and find people who truly do care for one another, even when we sometimes struggle to show that.
That enjoyment drives the next part, which is to earn TPE at a good rate. I never want to be behind in TPE, it's just not a good feeling to me. For some people, it's fine. And this isn't to say that min-max earners, or just steady earners are a bad thing. That's fine for some people. However, for me, I'm just not comfortable being that person. I'm very all or nothing on these leagues, and in this situation I'm very all at this point. I have full control of that, and so by being able to enjoy my time in this league I feel more driven to earn and by earning more the better my player should do and I will continue to feel good.
Basically, as my wife has often quoted, positivity builds on positivity. The more you build that positivity, the more you get positivity back. And so for me, helping to push in that positivity and build on that constantly is the biggest success I can have in this league.