The Sticky Life of Overachievers
Are you an overachiever who is living a sticky life? I know because I have been stuck. I didn’t look stuck, I didn’t smell stuck, I looked successful, prosperous. I was successful, prosperous, accomplished and stuck in the mud! Yes, I am a recovered overachiever who made it to success, happiness and fulfilment by finding my way out of my sticky life!
Overachievers and perfectionists often get stuck in sticky lives. Stuck in the mud that no one else can see. We can overachieve, we can strive for unattainable perfection but there is really no profound and lasting sense of satisfaction, fulfillment, peace, success. We can try to control our environment, try to feel safe from chaos, trying to prove that we are worthy but it never really works for very long.
As long as we remain a slave to hyper-accomplishment, as long as we seek validation from outside in rather than learning to live from inside out, we stay trapped in the labyrinth of illusion. Some of us will decide that we like the sticky life, some of us will find spouses, partners, business partners who are also living sticky lives of over achievement, underachievement or co-dependency. Some of us will attract an entourage of sycophants who are also living in the mud. Some of the nicest, brightest, overachievers of high integrity are living sticky lives, and attracting sticky friends, spouses, business partners who drag them down in ways that can be really painful.
Let’s face it, like attracts like. If you are living a sticky life, it is likely that you will attract others who are also stuck in the mud. And, whether you have sticky companions or not, the exhilaration of unsticking your life is worthwhile, incredible, life changing and life enhancing.
Freedom starts when you recognize that you are living a sticky life, because in this recognition you are opening a new pathway to awareness, understanding, empowerment, transformation. Bonus, when you stop living a sticky life, the sticky entourage seems to disappear! Carpe diem.