The problem with succeeding comes when most people are at plateau - the point where they get stuck in success. A stuck in success is when a person feels he has attained his own definition of success and feels his journey ends there- that a limit has been reached or that the idea of "finding my calling" has been achieved. Well according to Benjamin P. Hardy, "this whole notion of "finding your calling" has led people to have fixed views of themselves.

Have you wondered why some of the super stars who made great impacts in the past stopped making moves and efforts  and suddenly their names died off? Well we can easily say that they became plateaued. Most times we relate success to "a" call. way. significant. Single. One time experience.

 This is why I disagree with some of our youths  who has refused to be successful in other areas  of life but has wasted and remained  dormant while waiting for a particular kind of success because they see it everywhere and hope on- "My turn will come". I hate to burst your bubbles but your time would never come just as you wait patiently for the one thing happening to everyone else to happen to you- there are various ways to success. 

You can expand and grow in COUNTLESS  ways. Especially after you learn the process of learning. You can take all of your experience become great at something and quickly become proficient at something else. In this way , you never plateau . You are always growing and evolving as a person.- Benjamin P. Hardy.

It was possible to arrive at the above because as humans our identity is mileable and fluid. In other words we have the ability to redefine who we are, all it takes is our behavior. It means we are able to identify ourselves through the way we behave . For example, if you sing always you could redefine yourself to be a great singer or musician. I write an anticle, it means I'm a writer. All these are all called self signals because they help us evaluate and judge ourselves the same way we judge others.

Problem with succeeding is that at some point most people get stuck!

Personally, I have seen people who were considered as "best" in all they did all of a sudden, they started getting okay with being called "just good". People who were known to approachers became avoiders. This is because at some point at being successful they started playing safe and that is how they go into extinction. At this stage there is zero innovation, less goals are set and fear of going down to nothing sets in. This kind of motivation is said to go from approach- oriented to avoid- oriented.

So this means that if you ar seeking to advance your current position you are- Approaching

If you are seeking to maintain or avoid something bad from happening you are- Avoiding.

All life is the management of risk, not its elimination- Walter Wriston

Hence when you are approaching, you ar less concerned about risks and more focused on rewards. You are willing to take risks. You are willing to fail( in fact this is where the whole reward lies). You ar being PULLED forward. But  when  avoiding you are less concerned about the rewards and more focused on the risks because you feel you have already attained success and what you do not want is what will come to take that away; at the same time you do not desire to confront those risks. You simply want to play safe and if possible shield yourself from problems that come your way. 

That is how some people get confused and lose their identity.

At this juncture, check yourself well to see where you fall in.

Are you proactively becoming the person you want to be or holding onto the person you think you are?

Are you comfortable  avoiding than you are willing to approach?

Do your self a favour of answering sincerely so that you will know how to fix towards setting powerful goals to success again and not staying stucked in success(plateau)

SOLUTIONS: 

Always  remember that you are highly fluid which means your can at any point make a new version of yourself by reshaping and restructuring the stuffs you are made of- only then will you knock your plateau away.

Be Creativity and push boundaries 

Just because something still works does not mean you should relent. No matter how good it feels to remain with the adwards, a good creator never stops to reinvent. Once you are good at one thing, use the new learning abilities  to become awesome at something else. 

Challenge yourself and face your fears .

fear is a distraction. Never allow yourself to be cajoled into believing you can't beat your standard. If you did it before, you can still and always do it again and again and again. Challenge yourself and you will scare fear.

Always have it in mind that self efficacy(confidence) does not produce high performance, but high performance brings about confidence. You have everything it takes to be successful.

A Thoroughbred horse never looks at the other horses it just concentrates on running the fastest race it can.- Henry Fonda

CONCLUSION

Challenge yourself to move away from where you are at the moment, no matter how comfortable and relaxed it might be there. Try other possibilities and see what happens when you fail or fall. There is not just one root to success try  other roads and learn in the process. These lessons are what propels you into deeper knowledge about life itself. If you are plateaued do not remain there, try spreading your tentacles around you to discover the real definition of happiness and your true identity. All it takes is  change in behaviors and your mindset toward life; you will see that your psychological state will change. 

But; 

Will you begin to identify and understand certain behaviors? 

Will you face lots of resistance and fear ?

Will you have to force yourself to answer to emotional queries?

 Will you want to quite?

The answer  is probably YES to all of  those questions.

But THAT is how you separate yourself from the masses.

Thank you for reading.

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