Permission to Succeed

The fear of success, also known as self-sabotage, paralyzes million of men and women from all walks of life, preventing them from fulfilling their dreams and achieving their goals. This book is the first to identify the condition that underlies, and actually produces, self-sabotage: success anorexia. It is also the first book to present a comprehensive, easy-to-understand, practical program that shows readers how to overcome the psychological dynamic of success anorexia, and finally to allow themselves to succeed. Readers will learn that the best how-to-succeed program in the world will not help as long as they continue to sabotage their own success. Rather than providing the latest technique for "how to get what you want"," "how to influence people" or "how to make lots of money," Permission to Succeed identifies what causes self-sabotage, shows readers that they are allowed to succeed, teaches them how to overcome their own self-sabotage and helps them implement their own individual programs for achieving personal success.

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Chapter TwoHave you ever gotten to the end of a self-help book and thought, "Was that it!" Have you ever gone to a personal development seminar and said to yourself after it was over, "I already knew all that ... so how come I'm still not doing what I know I'm capable of!" Have you ever felt totally ready to make positive changes in your life, and then, a few days or weeks later, found yourself doing the same old thing, falling back into self-defeating habits and self-sabotaging patterns! If so, you have more company than you might think. Dan's Story About a year ago, I saw a posting of an invitation to a teleconference about success. I remember being very annoyed about the timing. It was late in the evening and meant that I would have to stay in my office until around I0:00 P.M. and I wasn't looking forward to it. My voice of "reason" kept telling me that this was just going to be another one of those "Work harder and you will succeed" classes that I had been going to all my life. (I'd spent thousands of dollars on books, tapes, seminars and conferences, and none of them ever told me about anything that I wasn't already doing.) This teleconference, though, was completely different. Finally, someone understood what I had been doing all my life. Please understand that outwardly, I was very "successful": I drove new cars, traveled, worked hard and made a good living. I had started a new job with an Internet marketing company that had really caught on fire. The only problem was that I couldn't really enjoy what was going on. I was being heaped with praise from co-workers and clients and my boss, but I didn't believe it à any of it. I would smile and thank people and then direct the praise to everyone else. I'd say things like, "Oh, thanks, but I couldn't have done it without so and so... he really did all the work, I just sold it." I didn't feel like I deserved any of the credit. I wouldn't allow myself the joy of succeeding. In the teleconference, I heard some new ideas. Concepts such as "loving mirrors," "goal-free zones" and "giving myself permission to succeed." I felt as though someone had turned the lights on in a room where all there had been before was darkness. The room was beautiful! I was inspired ... finally someone understood that I knew "what" to do, but that I had never given myself "permission" to do it. Within about four months, as a direct result of using the techniques that Noah had described in his teleconference, I was promoted to sales manager with nearly a 30 percent raise in my base salary. My commissions went through the roof. Finally, I was successful... or so I thought. But there was still a hole inside. Many things in my personal life were weighing me down. It seemed like the more successful I became professionally, the more miserable I became inside. I tried harder and harder to do all the "right things" so my life would be perfect. Talk about an impossible goal! I kept resisting the next ste

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