Family Loyalty and your Success

When I travel back to my hometown, and my family asks me about my work, I usually get a feeling about how they perceive it, as if it’s not important enough or doesn’t provide an intrinsic value.

Perhaps all of us feel this way a little. Maybe we chose a path that’s really different from our family’s or maybe we’re in the same industry and are always trying to measure up to our parents or siblings.

Both are painful, and both can block you from achieving your highest potential at work and in life.

Gay Hendriks names “Disloyalty and Abandonment” as one of the four biggest hidden barriers to our greatest, highest potential in his book “The Big Leap.” When we think “I cannot expand to my full success because it would cause me to end up all alone, be disloyal to my roots, and leave behind people from my past.”

According to Gay, we will unconsciously sabotage ourselves to bring our success back to a level that is comfortable for us and our families.

If you feel uncomfortable, uneasy or competitive when discussing your work with your family, send me a message on the “Contact” page to set up a free consultation call to discover which barriers are blocking you from your highest potential and from becoming a leader with ease.