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The leading success speakers are typically those who are suffering various
degrees of toxic
success syndrome. (toxic success = a lack of delight in daily living and the illnesses that go
hand-in-hand with too much juggling, too much work and too little play; the term
is taken, with thanks, from Dr Paul Pearsall's book of the same name)
They came through an educational system based on competition and
outdoing others. The lessons they propose are based upon the acceptance of
material success as necessary and normal. They see stress as something to be
coped with rather than examined and dealt with. Yet the keys to success they
offer open the wrong door, one leading to attention deficit, multi-tasking,
spiritual emptiness, neglected families and vital exhaustion.
Most success advisers have themselves become blind to the toxic kind of
success they continue to seek. They are powerful and convincing in their
message, so challenging what seems to be the only right way to seek a
successful life meets with strong resistance. Because they are encountering
complaints that all those motivational seminars leave them "down" a
few weeks later, they have started to give lip service to life balance,
mission statements, and quality time. Here is a summary of some of the nice
sounding ideas that seem to make such good common sense because they have
evolved as a part of the accepted nonsense we now consider the normal way to
live, love and work.
