"Stop needing achievement to like yourself Franklin distinguishes between healthy ambition and what he calls the addiction to achievement: "I needed the achievement to be able to look in the mirror and like myself — and that is when I framed it as an addiction." Without a win to point to, he had no peace and was "perpetually frustrated" because failure meant not that a project failed, but that he had failed. The shift he describes is learning to say, before any outcome is known, "You are exactly who God needs you to be right now" — creating a foundation of security that makes the creative work itself better, not worse. Source: Devon Franklin, Undefined (RC & Friends style interview podcast), Devon Franklin Episode"