Latter Day Sinner

I have a fear of success. When a person succeeds they must continue to do harder and harder work to continue to succeed. Each time I “level up” the next level becomes more difficult. Eventually I fear I will be running just to stand still. Failure on the other hand is easy. You just let it happen to you. You let the wind blow you wherever it will. There are no expectations with failure. A person can fail in a lot of ways and while that might be painful the requirements of it remain low under the very point one would like to succeed again.

I would like more than anything to change that mindset in myself. I would like to believe that there is such a thing as lasting success. I would like to erase the fear of success and encourage myself to succeed more richly and fully. I hold myself back in so many ways because of this fear. If I could change one thing it would be to overcome my fear of success.