120: The Achievement Trap

Your Virtual Upline Podcast

Bob Heilig

Education, Careers, Self-improvement, Business

4.9 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2019

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

What is driving you in your business? This episode is probably one of the most important episodes I've ever recorded. Today, I share with you something that I personally struggled with personally and professionally. And I believe you can probably relate to this, too.

The moment you stop striving to achieve something to feel worthy is the moment where you experience something much more powerful

I want to ask you a question, and your answer to this question will ultimately determine the kind of business you create and the quality of life that you experience.

Here's the million-dollar question - What is driving you in your business?

If I look back on my own network marketing career, what was ALWAYS driving me was 'the next thing.' One month it was to sign a certain 'A-player' prospect. The next it was to hit the next rank. Then to win a company trip. The car. The 'top earner.'….iti went on and on and on.

And each 'nest thing' was supposed to make me happy and feel better in my life.

But, after the initial happiness faded away from hitting my goals, I felt exactly the same as I did before. I was still miserable and I felt totally alone, actually I kind of feel worse.

That happiness is gone in seconds…and then you're on to 'the next thing' again.

This is what I call the achievement trap.

We have this mindset that our accomplishments in life will make us worthy, happy, and fulfilled in life. We do the hustle to reach our goals. Then we realize that each new accomplishment has a very empty, hollow feeling.

I hope this episode sheds light on your own achievement trap. I'm going to teach you how to break free from this in your business so that you'll start finding more sustainable happiness, joy, and fulfillment in the work that you do.

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0:00.0	Hey Bob here and welcome back to the Your Virtual Upline Podcast where we give Network
0:12.4	marketers the mindset, strategies, and skills that you need
0:17.2	to build a business and life of your dreams.
0:19.7	Okay, Bob here and welcome back to the show. Today I've got what I believe to be one of the most important episodes that I've done so far here on this podcast.
0:38.0	And the reason why I think that this is such an important message for all of you today. This is an issue that, quite frankly, I don't
0:46.3	hear many people talking about in this profession. And I know in my own personal experience,
0:51.3	it's something that I struggle with quite a bit and I have a
0:55.2	sneaky suspicion that there are a lot of you out there that are sharing some of the
0:58.8	same feelings that I did that I'm going to talk about today and I really truly believe that this message today is going to impact many of you in a way
1:07.6	that is necessary for you to really, really ascend to that next level of your life in your business and I think that today
1:15.6	I'm going to open some of your eyes up to a problem and an issue that you've had that you've not even been aware of
1:20.9	But it's been silently holding you back in your business and keeping you from what you want.
1:26.0	So it's with a great deal of responsibility that I take this message on today and really, really looking forward to sharing it with you.
1:34.3	Now as you know as a listener of my podcast I'm pretty excited that I am you
1:39.9	know writing my first book and hopefully you've been following my journey with that but I'm
1:44.7	really into the thick of things right now and I'm excited because this message today
1:49.3	is actually one of the core premises that the book is based upon. It's one of the early chapters and I'm not actually
1:55.4	reading you the chapter but I'm reading you the notes and the thoughts that I have that is helping me put this together.
2:00.9	But my plan here over the next month or so is I want to write this
2:05.8	book with you. I'm going to be sharing with you a lot of the ideas that I have that I'm putting
2:11.0	into this book that I've never really spoken about before, especially today.
2:15.3	I'm going to share some stories with you today. I've never talked about this before, ever,
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