How Wealth and Fame Doesn’t Necessarily Mean Success
How Wealth and Fame Doesn’t Necessarily Mean Success
By Johnny Lops
I am sure the title of this article may have caught your attention and spurned multiple questions in your mind; “What does Dr. Lops mean that having become a CEO, or having means to buy a million dollar home does not mean I am not successful?”
Week after week, the media will report a story of a celebrity or famous athlete having been caught in a scandal. The story may pertain to an affair, an aggressive act, a divorce, or a “baby mama” looking to get appropriate access to child support.
We read these stories because we remain interested in the public lives of these individuals. But what is interesting to me is that regardless of the controversy they are confronted with, we continue to admire them for the initial talent or skill that brought that person national attention.
But the question remains: is that person truly successful?
How Wealth and Fame Doesn’t Necessarily Mean Success
In my practice, I see time to time that the answer is yes but no. As we live in this era where social media controls what the world sees, for many we strive for an appearance of success with what we can show off. But frequently, away from the computer many struggle with other attributes that truly defines our success.
Let’s take a look at various examples describing my concerns for us as we look to achieve our own piece of success.
1) Never Used to Hearing the Word “No”
Can we truly get what we want at any time? Is that what we aspire to achieve through wealthy and notoriety? I hope not. Being okay with being told no is a tell tale sign of healthy emotional intelligence.
Emotional intelligence is just as necessary for overall success as is cognitive intelligence and social intelligence. No matter what our status, having capability of managing our frustration and having the tools for conflict resolution creates more opportunities to have healthy interactions with the people in our lives and with ourselves.
In my practice I see this regularly with couples where one person in the partnership who is a rising star begins to utilize their life success and trusting their instincts to how they communicate at home.
Because their decisions and instincts are correct in their work, they begin to believe at home, it is the same and they begin to negate and not be welcoming of their partner’s input.
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