Do You Suffer From ‘Fear of Success’?

Posted by Allen Baird, Partner on Jul 28, 2010 in coaching, personal development | 0 comments

Fear of failure, that’s easy to understand.  For some people, failure means shame and permanent defeat.  Maybe they haven’t learned the mantra: there is no failure, only feedback.  But fear of success?  Ridiculous!  But pause a second.  Why else do we sometimes set ourselves up for failure – self-sabotage – before we’ve even begun? One article lists the ways we do this very...