The Real Enemy
The Real Enemy
(Today’s post is also the feature article in this month’s issue of Gloss magazine, an online publication featuring entrepreneurs and lifestyle designers).
Your enemy isn’t pain.
The real enemy is when you don’t feel much of anything at all.
As a speaker, trainer and coach to high-performing big shots like you, I often find myself face-to-face with highly successful people who can’t seem to figure out why they are increasingly restless in the lives they’ve created for themselves.
On the one hand, you may genuinely enjoy the work you do, you’re compensated handsomely, hold an esteemed position in your work and community, and love/are loved by those around you.
Yet on the other hand you’re simply less interested in the life you’ve created for yourself. What once excited you, doesn’t as much anymore. Your highs aren’t all that high, your lows aren’t all that low. And you don’t know why.
Other than the occasional frustration or fleeting moment of happiness, you can’t escape the feeling that you’re not feeling much at all.
Yet you still want to protect the life you have.
And life isn’t painful enough yet to change.
So you remain…drifting into a future of More of the Same.
TRAPPED
This word keeps coming up over and over again when I’m with high performers: “Trapped.”
Sometimes it’s spoken explicitly. Other times, it’s lurking back there behind a façade of achievement, a quiet desperation that something is not quite right, you just don’t know what.
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– DQ
PS – In case you missed it, I was featured on the ChooseFI podcast (FI = Financial Independence) last week.
It was their #1 highest downloaded podcast with over 10,000 downloads in the first day alone.
We unpack the key concepts of my book Design Your Future: Stop Drifting and Start Living
- How to know if you’re drifting in life? Is your life path based on fear?
- Why most people feel a lack of “progress” in their lives and why this experience can feel subtly devastating
- How to interrupt your limiting patterns of beliefs and behaviors
- Practical steps on how to design a future you can’t wait to live into
Check out episode #33 of the ChooseFI podcast by clicking here.
If you have a commute, a workout or long plane ride coming up, you definitely need to check out this ChooseFI podcast.
Dominick helps individuals, teams and businesses Design a Future they can’t wait to live into.As an international keynote speaker, trainer, executive coach and author, he works with those who have an insatiable desire to achieve more and continuously improve themselves. The best of the best. For 15 years, he walked his own highly successful path as a corporate business executive (financial services) with extensive sales, leadership, productivity and mindset expertise. Often seen as an entrepreneur inside of a Fortune 100 organization, Dominick built a name for himself by challenging conventional thinking, unlocking potential previously hidden in blind spots and developing talented people at all stages of their career journey.He is the author of Design Your Future: 3 Simple Steps to Stop Drifting and Start Living.
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