When Success Becomes Your Worst Enemy
Why You May Not Want The Success You Are Desperately Seeking
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We live in a world that is Obsessed with Success.
"How do I Get Success?"
"What makes it come Faster?"
"When will I get the Big Deals and Bucks?"
"How do I get Recognized and Explode for My Masterpieces?"
"Can you Give Me the Formula to Gain Success?"
"Today is Not Fast Enough."
"I want it Yesterday."
These are all things I have Seen and Heard in one Version or Another.
The Results I Have Seen Of These Questions
I have been Asked Questions like this.
I have Lost Potential Clients because I Did Not Give them the Answers they Wanted to Hear.
I have Watched "Every" Single One of those Potential Clients also Fail in their Pursuits.
I have Watched their Teams Revolt Against Them.
I have Watched their Most Promising Employees Leave.
I have Watched their Businesses Crumble.
I have Watched them Give Up.
Completely Defeated.
The Scary Thing about this?
These are the "Lucky" Individuals.
What do I mean by this?
The Worse Fate
Well, here is a Secret that the World Doesn't Want You to Know in Your Pursuit of Success...
There are Many People who "Attained" the Success They Sought...
And "That" Success...
Became the Worst Thing that "Ever" Happened to Them.
The More Extreme the Success?
The More Horrifying it Became for them.
You see...
It is Incredibly Easy to Bounce Back from something You Never Had...
But When you "Had" that Extreme Success...
And then "Lost" it...
Completely?
That is Enough to Shatter Most People's Psyches.
There are People who are "Literal" Billionaires...
Who have been on the Covers of Magazines...
Who were Hailed as Experts...
Who Attained the Success they Sought...
Who Today are Jokes.
Literally.
They had their 15 Minutes of Fame...
But have been Unable to Gain Back "Anything" they Lost...
In Decades...
Can you Imagine That?
How This Happens
Now, "That" Level of Meteoric Rise and Fall may not be the "Norm"...
However, there are "Many" Stories that are Incredibly Similar, at a Much Smaller Scale.
But How does this Happen?
It is Really Quite Simple...
They were Not Ready for Success.
When Success Comes to them...
They are Found Lacking.
They are Found Unstable.
They are Found Fragile.
They are Found Uncertain.
This applies to Many Things.
Their Ability to Handle Stressors.
Their Ability to Handle People.
Their Ability to Handle Complaints.
Their Ability to Solve Problems Creatively.
Their Ability to Maintain Confidence.
Their Ability to Continue to Replicate their Previous Successes.
All of these things, and More, "Seem" Small...
Until the Entire Weight of them is Solely Upon Your Shoulders.
Where the Responsibility for these Lies Solely with You.
When Problems You Did Not Create are Blamed On You Regardless.
Where the Livelihoods of Employees, Customers, and sometimes Others are Dependent on You.
What People Fail To Understand About Success
There is a Phrase that is a Misquote of Shakespeare...
Heavy is the Head that Wears the Crown.
People often just see the Crown of Success and think that the Crown is Fairly Light...
It "Must" be Easy to Wear.
But the Crown is the Easy Part.
All of the Weight of the Crown comes from the Expectations and Responsibilities that come "With" the Crown.
The Terrible Cost Of This Form Of “Success”
However, it becomes Worse if you Obtain the Crown of Success before you are Ready...
Why?
Trust.
Reputation.
Belief.
When you are Given the Crown, but are Found Unable to Carry the Weight?
You Lose Trust.
You Lose Your Reputation.
Everyone Stops Believing in Your Abilities and Capabilities.
The Result?
You Lose Everything of Significance.
Perhaps Worst...
You Discover that "All" of the "Value" You Placed in Success...
Is Worthless.
The Titles.
The Awards.
The Money.
All of the Trappings of Success are Inherently Valueless.
They are All Only Symbols that are "Only" as Strong as the Human Behind Them.
People Frequently Tell Me They Want Success...
But Are You Ready for the Heaviness that Comes with the Crown?
Heavy is the Crown.
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You Want to Accept the Weight of the Crown.
Yet, you still want to better understand “How” to do it Effectively.
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