Overcoming Success Pitfalls

Overcoming Success Pitfalls

Reading Stories of successful Professionals reveals that their achievements brought them privileges such as status and wealth. The achievements however came at a cost and with pitfalls.  The stories also tell that many achievers are either too busy chasing the privileges to avoid the pitfalls, or are unprepared to avoid them.

An example is those who fall into the snare of moral failure. Their professional achievements are as a result short lived or tarnished, often lending heavy burdens to their families and societies. At a personal level, the professional consequences they face can be dream shattering. Yet, new cases continue to surface. One of the reasons for this trend is that Society often recognizes and rewards vocational performance only. Therefore, In pursuit of this recognition, many focus on vocational achievement allowing important private areas of their lives to suffer neglect. As a result, many paradoxically excel in one life area and perform dismally in the other areas. However, areas of life are so interrelated that any neglected area eventually affects performance in all others. Many appear surprised when they fall into pitfalls because their attention would have excluded the areas were the pitfalls lay.

To avoid the pitfalls of success one needs a life view that holds private and public life issues in a healthy tension. Such a view will identify poor self-leadership as the seedbed of professional pitfalls.

The Trendsetters Society at Monash with guest, Dr. Kurai Chitima, are interactively exploring how  the STARS model can solve the menacing success-failure paradox. STARS (set to achieve real success), is a self-leadership framework that empowers achievers with values, and tools to overcome success pitfalls.          Seminars are running For five successive Thursdays beginning 22 August 2013