Why your friends say: Be successful but not too much!

We all have friends

Friends and family members like to spend their time together because they feel that they are similar to each other and belong together. They have common thoughts, common interests, common topics and more often than not, common life.

When you act on a new idea and share it with them, they will most likely be happy to see you on your way and encourage you to keep up the good job. They like you, they like your success and they are obviously proud of you… at least for awhile.

The turning points

If you are successful, that’s great, who wants a loser friend, right? But if you are too successful, I mean you are in sharp contrast to be background – things may turn quickly.

At this stage people around you can see the gap between you and themselves. If you rise above them high, they have to look at your business from ‘below’. They start saying that ‘Sounds too good to be true!’ and stuff like that. It makes them feel like you’ve done it much better then they have. It gives them a contrast. It means to them that you’ve done something outstanding while they’ve just wasted their life.
You are successful, they are not.

Your success remind me of my failure

Unfortunately, you will find jealous and envy sights even in your family’s and among your friends’ eyes. You create high contrast; being 'too' successful, making your dreams come true points to their mediocrity, shows them the difference between your success and their ‘average life’. It emphasizes what they could not try or what they could not reach so it makes them feel that they are losers (compared to you). Who likes this feeling? Who likes to hang around with a ‘friend’ who makes them feel like that?
Leaders on the top are alone.

It is very sad but true. Look for successful people around you, build new relationship with them and start a new era in your life. A successful one.