You can still loose it all!

Some people believe that becoming successful is the hardest thing in life. And because of this belief, they work extremely hard to achieve one big goal and once they’ve achieved it, they then think that it’s end of the world.

“I have made it!” The average person says.

That one victory becomes their personal anthem and the one story that they are always eager to share with anyone willing to listen.

These “averagers”, after having won once, tend to fail to move beyond that one achievement to pursue any greater success.

They become comfortable with the new accolades, awards and lifestyle that they have just achieved and are afraid to do anything new, because of the fear of losing what they have already achieved.

They hang out with low achieving friends and family who continue to see them as the “boss’, and they always have a good and reasonable explanation as to why it’s better to keep things simple.

On the other spectrum, you have the “overconfidents”. These are the people who believe that they are superior to the masses because they had to endure exceptional challenges and difficulties in order to make, create, negotiate, initiate or execute on something that became extremely successful.

These people believe that their success is the result of their unique intelligence, gifts, talents or skills. Their overconfidence and arrogance, leads them to take unnecessary risks in their personal and professional lives, that make their life story look more like a melted saw than flow chart.

Filled with the hubris from their former successes, the “Overconfidents” often end up loosing everything they had worked to achieve and finding themselves in the situation where they have to start all over again.

These two simple minds, show how much the concept of success is overated, diluted and completely misunderstood, even by the people who are considered as massively successful.

Really successful people are like master archers. They understand at a deep level of consciousness that every new target demands the same level of discipline, focus, concentration, skill and effort as the previous bull’s eye that they had achieved.

They constantly check their egos and surround themselves with people who can challenge their deepest beliefs.

They have a sustained sense of humility, despite their constant desire to dominate their field and industry. They respect their competitors and never assume that they cannot be matched, beaten, disrupted or defeated over time. Hence why, most of them, have a healthy paranoia that leads them to constantly question their own defeat and failure to come, in order to disrupt themselves before they are disrupted.

In conclusion, we should remember that history teaches us again and again that winning is not an end goal, but a continuous journey.

There are many “champions” who have lost it all because they either become too comfortable or overconfident with their previous victories.

The lessons to learn here are that:

The smart people striving for success should learn the principles and stick to them until they get the results and receive the prize they’re pursuing. From there they should look ahead, and go for bigger and better, constantly improving themselves along the way.

The one time champion, should learn from the mistakes she made on her journey to success and do her very best not to make those mistakes again. She should surround herself with multiple award winners, and learn how they have sustained their successes.

The person whose desire is to see their success stand the test of time and last for multiple generations, must study the mistakes of those who succeeded and then lost it all. They should use this knowledge, not only to ensure they don’t make the same mistakes, but to also use it to teach the people around them on what not to do.

Now that you know that you can loose it all, make sure you don’t!