Is your success (you define it) drying up your brilliance? Have you had a near loss experience, so that you realize that brilliance is a gift (just look up at the sun). When we’re poor and struggling we can feel all of our efforts and failures. They make us more appreciative and connect us to things that were with us before we were born. Then comes success and we lapse into forgetfulness. As it has been said before we forget from whence we came.
Tom Peter’s blog entry is rather telling about the affect of success on a culture (as it relates to health care). He doesn’t talk about it from my angle, but the message is the same. When people, or a country, become successful they can become lazy and dry.
We should always be pushing the envelope with our growth, be it physical, mental or spiritual. Pushing forward…
Funny how success can be our enemy or our friend.