{"product_id":"the-look-of-success-redefining-achievement-identity-and-fulfillment-on-your-own-terms-9781968277086","title":"The Look of Success: Redefining Achievement, Identity, and Fulfillment on Your Own Terms","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Look of Success: Redefining Achievement, Identity, and Fulfillment on Your Own Terms\u003c\/em\u003e challenges conventional ideas about what it means to succeed in today's professional and personal landscape.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor decades, success has been framed as a destination defined by productivity, status, income, or recognition. Yet many high-achieving individuals find that reaching these milestones does not bring the fulfillment they expected. Instead, it creates a sense of misalignment-the realization that the life they have built no longer reflects who they are becoming.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this reflective, research-informed work, Dr. Karissa Thomas reframes success not as something to chase or perform, but as an evolving alignment between identity, values, and lived experience. Drawing on leadership insight, adult identity development, and emotionally intelligent reflection, the book explores how cultural expectations, inherited narratives, and professional conditioning shape how success is defined and pursued.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRather than offering formulas or surface-level motivation, \u003cem\u003eThe Look of Success\u003c\/em\u003e invites readers to examine the internal dimensions of achievement. Through grounded insight and reflective prompts, readers are guided to distinguish external performance from internal fulfillment, recognize where ambition has become misaligned, and redefine success in ways that support integrity, clarity, and long-term well-being.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten for professionals, leaders, students, and individuals navigating periods of transition or recalibration, this book speaks to those who have succeeded by conventional standards yet sense there is more. It offers a framework for conscious self-definition-one that allows success to be revisited, refined, and lived intentionally as life and priorities evolve.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Look of Success\u003c\/em\u003e contributes to contemporary conversations on leadership, identity, and sustainable achievement by reframing success as something to be defined and inhabited, rather than measured or proven.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Mosaic Intelligence Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/24\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781968277086\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 176\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.54lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.41d","brand":"Karissa Thomas","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52733764632757,"sku":"9781968277086","price":15.29,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-look-of-success-redefining-achievement-identity-and-fulfillment-on-your-own-terms-9781968277086","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}