Fear Of Success

I once worked with a woman that had successfully lost something like 40 pounds and then suddenly began to pack the weight back on at an alarming rate.

After much discussion she finally came to the realization that since she’d be abducted, placed in the trunk of a car, and sexually assaulted as a teen, she felt being overweight made her less appealing to men and therefore was protecting her from being attacked again.

So her fear of success didn’t come from success itself, but from the fear that if she achieved it she might somehow be attacked again.

Of course, the likelihood of this happening again was slim, but it was controlling her and she had to overcome that with much professional counselling before she was ever able to overcome her struggles with her weight.

If you constantly find you’re sabotaging your own success right when you feel as though you’re starting to get on the right track, you need to get to the root of why you’re sabotaging yourself and address it.

When you take away the fear of success, the journey itself becomes a whole lot easier.