3 Battles You’ll Fight as You Become Successful

The price of success — if you’re a decent person.

Karen Nimmo
Published in
4 min readSep 23, 2020

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So you want to be successful?

You’re in good company. Half the world is dreaming of success, scrambling to improve their position in life, to make more, have more, be more.

But chasing success is hard: the higher you climb, the bigger the stakes, the harder the landing when you fall. And you WILL fall — at least temporarily.

Although successful people come in all sorts of packages, they tend to share a certain mindset. It includes deep focus, discipline, persistence and the ability to regroup quickly after setbacks.

But — if they are decent, self-aware people — they’ll also battle relentless internal conflicts as they strive to balance their lives and the needs of the people they care about.

These are the three biggest challenges.

3 Battles You’ll Fight as You Become Successful

1. Indecent obsession: can’t leave work alone.

“Overworking is the Black Plague of the 21st Century.”
Richie Norton

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Karen Nimmo

Clinical psychologist, author of 4 books. Editor of On the Couch: Practical psychology for health and happiness. karen@onthecouch.co.nz