480. Is Your Serial Achievement an Addiction? Here’s How to Break the Cycle

The ONE Thing

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Entrepreneurship, Business, Careers

4.6 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 November 2024

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Here at The ONE Thing, we’re all about helping people be successful. Most folks would assume we value serial high achievement, but we don’t. In this episode, we take a look at when achievement becomes an addiction and why it isn’t the same thing as success. Kim Zuroff, our Director of Growth at The ONE Thing, is our guest. She dominated Ironman Triathlons, climbed Kilimanjaro, and raced up the career ladder until she realized she wasn’t living the life she wanted. We break down exactly how she pivoted to a more fulfilling and still successful life. You aren’t your achievements. If that statement makes you uncomfortable, lean into this episode and hear us out. Challenge of the Week: Pull out a pen and a piece of paper. Journal answers to a few questions. Think about your goals. Are your decisions moving you toward or away from where you want to be? Also, think about who else in your life is being impacted by the decisions that you’re making. If you're a bold risk taker who wants to dream big and achieve a higher level of success in your life or business, visit the1thing.com. *** Boost your language skills fast. Want to learn a new language but tired of the same old boring apps? Check out Lingoda. Lingoda provides real live classes with actual teachers, 24/7. Yes, 24/7. So whether you’re an early riser or a night owl, you can fit language learning into your busy schedule. Start your 7-day free trial today! Use my promo code ONETHING50 to get up to 50% off. Visit try.lingoda.com/OnethingPod now and discover why Lingoda is your perfect language partner. *** To learn more, and for the complete show notes, visit: the1thing.com/pods. We talk about: How achievement can be an addiction Using the “someday letter” tool Finding calm energy Links & Tools from This Episode: Read “The Gap and The Gain” Free Resources Want to be a guest or share feedback? Email [email protected] or send us an audio note at Speakpipe.com/the1thing. Produced by NOVA Media

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0:00.0	I'm Jay Papazan and this is The One Thing, your weekly guide to the simple steps that lead to extraordinary results.
0:07.0	This week we're exploring a very important question. Can serial achievement actually become your Achilles heel?
0:24.9	Maybe this is you, maybe it's someone you know, maybe it's someone you work with.
0:28.7	There's that individual in your life that's always chasing something.
0:32.9	The moment they cross the finish line, they have to have a new mountain to climb.
0:37.3	It's this idea
0:38.3	that we think that maybe through this achievement, something else will happen. We'll be happy,
0:43.2	we'll be satisfied. We'll finally have that part of us that's waiting to be filled, be filled.
0:49.1	And the problem is, if we don't know what we're chasing, we're actually ignoring a bigger question.
0:55.8	This all comes together in my conversation with Kim Zerhoff. She's our director of growth and someone I've been
1:00.3	friends with for over a decade. She came in to see me many years ago to share her journey of
1:05.9	summoning Mount Kilimanjaro. And frankly, I was a bit of a killjoy. I wasn't as interested in her achievement.
1:12.6	I wanted to know why. If this sounds like you or someone you care about, this is an episode you don't
1:18.4	want to miss.
1:24.5	All right. So, Kim, we see this a lot when we're training with the one thing. We've got these high achievers.
1:31.3	And they are serial achievers, might be the best way to put it. And I always think about a quote from one of my favorite authors, Morgan Housel. And he talked about this idea of moving the goalpost on yourself. It's just this idea of kind of being
1:45.5	addicted to success in a way that actually doesn't serve you. And you're here because I feel like
1:52.9	this has got a little bit to do with you. It does. It does. When you sat down in my office to talk
1:58.8	about Kilimanjaro, I had the benefit of history that our listeners
2:02.1	don't. We met on a bus at our annual convention. So at that time, you were an agent.
2:07.7	I was, yeah. And you were achieving. Fast forward some amount of time. And then you're in San Antonio,
2:13.6	and you're one of our top, we call them productivity coaches, who help a large number of agents achieve kind of their goals.
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