I’ve seen an interesting APPLICATION of Carl Jung’s ideas after talking to a few Entrepreneurs.
You see, once you’ve built a business, you’re making decent money and usually on a clear path towards success.
Yet, several Entrepreneurs I’ve spoken to lately are having a strange problem.
They can work like a dog and overcome the hardest part of business (which is getting started)
…But right as they see the horizon
Right as they are about to automate their business and free their time and effort from their income (true Freedom)
They begin to self sabotage in the most basic ways.
Silly procrastination.
Random bouts of tiredness.
Self defeating thoughts.
Porn addictions.
More drinking.
Ignoring their health.
These are problems they usually had on lock during their “come up” but now they all resurface, like ghosts.
They haunt.
They slow everything down.
They trick you into making more and more silly blunders and mistakes.
Eventually it looks like you’re on the brink of imploding and the great position you’ve found yourself in is wasted.
I’ve always wondered why this happens.
The answer came to me while listening to a podcast from a “successful guy”
He kept repeating how he always knew he “deserved” success.
He saw himself as a natural winner.
As someone who succeeds.
This was imprinted deep down within him.
He also framed it as an obligation to think this way.
He had to believe he was a winner, because of all the sacrifices people like his Mother made to give him Life and opportunity.
He had a deeply built winner identity.
I immediately noticed that the guys struggling to make that final break to success lacked this identity.
They saw themselves as “strugglers” or “tragic heroes”.
Their “story” was one of gaining admiration for their effort and struggle as they grappled up the mountain.
But there was no vision of who they would be once they gained the victory at the top.
They needed to struggle in order to feel they were worthy of admiration off “their peers”.
They have a Struggler Identity.
Do you understand the logic of this?
Whatever way they see themselves deep down acts like a source of gravity.
If you see yourself as a deserving winner, then you will almost be pulled towards that position.
Your emotions align to your identity and pull you towards it.
If you see yourself as a struggler, then the struggle pulls you back to it.
Just as you may get close to real, life changing success, gravity kicks into gear and pulls you back to a lifestyle that suits your deep identity: The Struggle.
The great art of working with people like this is to learn how to dive into these “depths” where this foundational identity lives and work on changing it.
This is where a practical application of Carl Jung’s ideas can actually be Life Changing.
Perhaps even the toolset that makes someone a millionaire with freedom.
All based on identity level change.
I suggest you look at what your foundational identity may be, and ask yourself is it serving your goals?
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