Are people reluctant to success?! How come?(2)

I noticed that the very effect of any good coaching question
is the ‘immediate success’ of the people you coach.
‘immediate success’ =
the body’s feeling when the child makes his very first baby-step;
a feeling of lightening and wellbeing after getting
into the chosen action, on the begining spot.

And yet there is a kind of resistance. ..
I put this question on few dedicated groups on LinkedIn.
Here you are some (more) answers:

Great discussin everyone -

something that I have encountered has been

resistance to success through fear of removing limiting beliefs

because it is like giving up everything you have ever had,

and in some ways with some people it is like

pulling the rug out from beneath their feet,

and they are then not so "safe" as they previously were in their life,

they want to hold onto a portion of negativity or

”I can'ts, it's not right, it will go wrong”

because it is as @Albert mentions comfortable.

When I sense this is happening with someone

I help them look at what the freedom from these limiting beliefs

and walking out of their comfort zone

will bring them and allow them to do/ to be/ to have in their lives,

and for each limiting belief or fear

we release/we add something into its place immediately

so that there is no void to fill.

Many of my clients enjoy the analagoy of the kitchen drawer that is full of rubbish -

you just keep filling it and filling it and each time you look in it it is a mess,

if you start to put lovely things into the front of the drawer

though at some stage their is no room left for

the rubbish you have kept hold of for so long and

it has no choice but to fall out of the back.
///Carol Dodsley


The resistance to change (or to succeed in this case)

is indeed an inertia.

@Albert and @Carol mention it as being in the comfort zone.

They are right, and

you have to help your coachee to look for

the deepest reason, the ultimate benefit of being successful.

If he/she finds this reason strong enough,

he/she will certainly defeat the inertia.
///Carlos Segura Ortega


I wonder if Marx theory has anything to do with it?

"to ease the misery and hardship experienced by

dehumanized people exploited

in work places by the new slave-drivers of

the Industrial Era — the capitalists.”

Hence, Marx concluded that ”religion is the opium of the people" and

that we use religion/spirituality to sooth ourselves.

(I love it-spirituality/meditation-it is a part of my personal sanctuary)

And I am "for" capitalism and religion/spirituality,

I am for fame, success and money (however each of us defines success).

And I so connected with Miles comment:

"Underneath it all,

we humans have amassed an enormous amount of a sense

of guilt, unworthiness, fear, grievances, doubts,"

yet I believe in addition to our own human resistances and beliefs,

if that is what we define them to be...

there are many nuances

(intra and inter personal, societal, universal and

those nuances that exist in not knowing what we don't know, etc...)

that may play into the phenomenon of "success reluctance or elusiveness"

and ashumans, we are wanting that next "immediate success".

I get that if it is all to be, it is up to me....

yet is it just inside of us?

Knowing that I am the only one that I have ability to do anything about....

(and I continue to work on the acquisition of patience!!) ;)...

I am so working on Heidegger's "beingness in the moment"...

thanks for the great question and feedback....love this forum!!
///Susan Grzeskowiak


Our brains tend towards homeostasis -

regulating our temperature, our breathing rate, our metabolism and ourselves!

We tend towards keeping things the same, preserving the status quo -

even if we aren't happy with the way things are.

Buidling motivation -

looking at all the benefits that change will bring -

helps us to keep going with the hard work needed to make the change.

Baby steps are the way to go -

building a little bit at a time

so our unruly brains can get used to each step and

come along with us rather than holding us back.
///Marian Kerr

Read first part here: are-people-reluctant-to-success-1