That’s another question I asked myself before I started to make things happen. I wondered if my family, friends, and peers would still see me and like me as the same person.
Textbook fear of success.
I had all these wild thoughts about how I was going to create enemies out of everyone around me because they’d all be jealous and envious. They’d think I was a jerk for having more money than them. They’d think they couldn’t relate to me anymore. They’d think I had “changed.”
Could I have been any more ego-centric? I don’t think so.
I finally figured out that all of this was just a bunch of mental noise. It was all in my head. I had no idea what the people in my world would think if I achieved some success. But, I went ahead and made a lot of guesses and assumptions, of which probably none were true.
If you’re having these same kinds of thoughts about your potential success, take a moment and ask yourself if any of your assumptions about the people in your life are actually true, or if you’re just making up excuses not to take action and build your future.
-Kevin