YOU CAN DO EVERYTHING RIGHT AND STILL END UP…
Succeeding Miserably
A funny, honest rethink of success, failure and the exhausting rules we use to measure our lives.
I’m on a mission to give away one million copies—and help more people build a definition of success that doesn’t make them miserable.
Success was supposed to make us happy. That was the deal, wasn’t it?
But the goalposts keep moving. Rest feels suspicious. “Enough” never quite arrives. And sometimes the life that looks most successful from the outside is the one quietly making us miserable.
Succeeding Miserably is about questioning those rules—and building a definition of success that leaves room for an actual life.
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Before you redefine success, find out whose definition you’re using.
The Free Success Audit is a manageable guided reflection to help you notice what you’ve been taught to chase, what it may be costing you and what success could look like on your own terms.
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Inside the audit
✓ Where your current definition of success came from
✓ Which goals genuinely belong to you
✓ What your version of success may be costing
✓ What “enough” could actually look like
No enormous workbook. No productivity overhaul. Just an honest place to begin.
ABOUT ZOE
I didn’t write this book because I mastered success.
I wrote it because I got very good at achieving things that were making me miserable.
I’m Zoe Brennan—a Scottish writer, former shop owner and lifelong overthinker. For years, I treated success as something I could earn by working harder, coping better and never admitting when things had become too much. From the outside, much of it looked impressive. From the inside, it eventually became impossible to sustain.
Succeeding Miserably grew out of what happened next: questioning the rules I had built my life around and trying to work out what success means when achievement alone clearly isn’t the answer.
I don’t have a perfect formula. I do have an honest story, a lot of questions and a growing suspicion that our lives were never meant to feel like permanent performance reviews.