Why You Can't Find True Success

In our Level 2 workshop workshop, we show people a very simple but powerful way to improve their skills, so they can live their purpose to the very best of their ability, and eventually achieve great talent in their chosen field — whether that be a hobby, passion, career, etc.

This process helps overcome Mediocrity — which is the fear program trying to limit your skills to a certain level, so you’re never quite good enough to achieve true talent. And Mediocrity will do the same to you, if you let it. But to understand how to overcome it, you first need to understand where it came from.

Mediocrity was formed when you were a young child. Back then, you often weren’t strong enough, tall enough, or skilled enough to do things well yourself. It was a very frustrating time, and your efforts to do things yourself were also often corrected, done for you, criticised, or punished. You very quickly learned that you weren’t good enough to do things well, so you gave up trying.

You still carry that classic “I’m not good enough” program inside you as the fear of criticism, trying, failure, punishment, and even success itself. Now as an adult, that same program of Mediocrity doesn’t want you being really good at what you do — because it worries if you try, you might be criticised or shamed, punished for your efforts, fail and embarrass yourself, fall from a greater height, or be unable to manage the success you create.

So to keep you ‘safe’ from all of that, it tries to get you to avoid improvement beyond a certain level. This is where you’ll find yourself thinking:

“I can’t do it.”

“It’s too hard.”

“I’m not ready.”

“I’m not skilled enough, smart enough, prepared enough.”

“I’ll mess it up.”

“Other people can do it better than me.”

“I’m stupid.”

…and so on.

You stop trying as hard. You’ll avoid learning new skills to better yourself. You’ll lose patience when you practice. You’ll focus too much on problems or failures. You’ll tend to be hard on self, frustrated with self, angry with self. You’ll reject compliments as ‘awkward’, yet putting yourself down somehow feels more ‘appropriate’. You pull out just before success lands. And it’s all done simply because a part of you believes, “I’m not good enough to be any better, so why bother trying.”

Your fear program will also toy with you. It will let you improve to a certain point — so you get a taste of some success — but only to a certain level, known as the “Glass Ceiling”. It’s like you can look up and see where you want to be, but you just can’t seem to get there, no matter how much you try, which can be very frustrating, disappointing, or disheartening.

Eventually you’ll give up trying, and settle for some level of Mediocrity — just getting by with the skills you already have. That’s Mediocrity doing its best to keep you ‘safe’ from trying and failing, in case you’re ever 2-4 years old again!

That’s what’s stopping you achieve the success you want — you!

The solution is beautifully simple: Never get too comfortable with your skills, so Mediocrity never gets a chance to impose a Glass Ceiling on your Talents. Always work on improving the techniques, abilities, skills required in your purpose. Learn how to do more things yourself (Techniques), and then learn how to do them well (Abilities), then really well (Skills), then exceptionally well (Talent), then at a level of greatness (Mastery).

That’s the journey of Talent. It’s not something you're born with, it’s something you develop over time, and it takes patience and practice. But the whole point of trying is to be the best you can be at what you enjoy doing. Not for the money, or to compete, or even for the recognition — they’re the bonus, not the goal — but for the pure joy of personal accomplishment.

Joy is the only true marker of success.

Pushing yourself beyond your self-imposed limits, smashing through the glass ceiling, onwards and upwards past what you previously believed was even possible, heading towards eventual greatness in your field!

That’s exactly what we help people do in Levels 2 and 3.