Destructive success? Yes, it can be. Unless we remember one simple thing…

About Destructive Success…  

Good morning, folks! I am Jin with Morning Mindfulness Podcast. Hope you’re having a fantastic morning! Let’s breathe and smile.

As long as I can remember myself, I’ve always had dreams, even though they have not necessarily always become goals.

Some of my early childhood dreams, like 4 years old child’s dreams, came to reality. It took 20 years to accomplish, a lot of work on the way there, and a lot of support from people around me. Especially family.

Here’s a flip side of the coin. And you may not relate to that. But I’ve experienced that, and I’ve seen it in many people. When we achieve this top level dream, we accomplish it, in our mind we achieved the highest level. We lose that momentum that took us to the top. And if we stay at that level long enough, we may even become rigid. In our mind we are on the top. Unfortunately, there’s no status quo in life. We either going up or down.

I read I think in John Maxwell’s book, that there are no Nobel Prize winners who made any significant progress after they received this Award.

I know I’ve experienced this state of mind several times. In my professional life as well as my martial art career. There’s nothing more humbling than losing to 80 y.o. teacher every time within 1 or 2 seconds. After 30 years of training.

There’s only one way I know of that helps to prevent this side effect of achieving success. That is getting around successful people. A coach, a mentor, a teacher, somebody with a bigger dream and better skills, who’s ahead of me in the same game I’m in. I like learning. I don’t know about you, my friend, but if I don’t have a dream, and I have nothing to learn, I become unpleasant. Think about it, my friend. Do you have a dream you’re going to?

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Jin

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