We'd like to believe that everything gets easier with success. We have more money, we have more resources, maybe we even have a team to help, and everything just gets easier. And sometimes that's true. But strangely, there's also kind of a high achievers paradox. Some challenges actually become harder with success. It's like they compound. So think of it as maybe it was a chronic

problem, a chronic mistake that maybe you're making that if unaddressed gets bigger and bigger over

time. It's like that dripping faucet that slowly becomes a trickle and that trickle can then become a

flood and suddenly you've got a major renovation

on your hands. That's how, like, chronic problems and chronic mistakes can compound if we don't

nip them in the bud, and we don't have a good approach for them. So today I'm going to share

some observations we've made. We took lots of our coaching transcripts, lots of our discovery

calls with executive and coaching clients, and we were looking for made. We took lots of our coaching transcripts, lots of our discovery calls with

executive and coaching clients, and we were looking for patterns. We uploaded them all,

put them into AI, and we discovered at least three things that jumped out at us that are part

of a larger trend. And I want to share what those trends are today. So whether you're a veteran

or a beginner, you might just

recognize one of the three, if not all of the three, as challenges you're currently facing. And all

I can tell you is in our experience, if you can nip these in the bud, it actually gets easier than

if you wait until you're, quote, successful. So let's dive in. I'm Jay Papazan, and this is the one thing, your weekly

guide to the simple steps that lead to extraordinary results. So here's how the paradox works. So you have more opportunities, which actually means you have more

distractions. You have a bigger business, which means you have to make more decisions. You have a bigger

team, which can mean that you have to manage more people. The stakes become higher, so you have

more to lose. And a large operation actually brings more complexity. The stakes become higher, so you have more to lose, and a large operation

actually brings more complexity. So there's something about the scale of success that our

natural talents show up for, and we've been good and we've been good, and then suddenly we're

not good anymore. Or maybe we weren't good in the beginning, and the bigger the business gets,

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