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Don’t Let Losers Make You Feel Guilty for Being Successful

 

by Glenn Shepard

September 29, 2009

 

 

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"Successful people want to pull others up; unsuccessful people want to pull others down."
 

 

Dear Glenn,   

Glenn, you speak of toxic employees in your problem employees program, and how to address, but what about toxic partners?

     I am in business with 2 partners and 1 of them is very toxic, while the other is very passive.

       I spend more time dealing with them than focusing on our business. I fear my only way out is to dissolve the business, but that in itself could cause major legal issues. Where should I turn?

Jeannie in Louisiana

 

Dear Jeannie,   

This is why they say that the only ship that won't sail is a partnership.    

      I've had a business partner once, and would never wish that on anyone.

      People from the great motivational speaker Tony Robbins to Dave Ramsey tells a similar story.

     If the partnership was set up correctly from the start, there should have been some form of an exit strategy, such as a pre-agreed buyout plan, established from the get-go.

    The place I suggest you turn to is the one person on this planet I trust more when it comes to financial issues than any other - Dave Ramsey.

     I recommend that you go to his website and find a CPA in your area who is one of Dave's Endorsed Local Provider, and meet with him or her.

     Take my word on this Jeannie. When you're this miserable, you don't own your business; it owns you. It doesn't have to be that way.

      Thanks for your question.

Glenn In Nashville
 

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What you say about others says more about you than about them, and this is especially true when it comes to money and success.

 

When healthy, well-rounded people see others succeed, they say things like “Good for him. He deserves it”.

 

When losers see others succeed, they prove that misery loves company by raining on their parade.

 

The wife of one of my Gold Inner Circle members surprised him with a trip to see Cheap Trick perform the Beatles’ Sargent Pepper live at the Las Vegas Hilton.

 

Just before they left, he heard that one of his employees had whined, “He gets to run off to Vegas and we don’t even get a raise”.

 

He didn’t have time to confront her before the trip, and that nagging thought of “Should I feel guilty for this?” took away some of the magic of this once-in-a-lifetime birthday present.

 

This is an issue all successful people, especially those who own small businesses, struggle with. They work so hard to become successful, and then when they reap the fruits of their labor, there’s always someone who tries to make them feel guilty.

 

Guilt is the appropriate emotion to feel when you’ve done something wrong, but there’s absolutely nothing wrong with reaping the benefits that were the result of your hard work.

People who haven’t succeeded always seem to think that those who have must have done it at the expense of those who haven’t.

Nothing could be further from the truth. In The Millionaire Next Door, Tom Stanley discovered that the most common trait among first generation self-made millionaires is integrity.

Billionaire Jon Huntsman summed it up even better in his book, Winners Never Cheat, Even in Difficult Times.

The problem is that no matter how fair and generous you are, there will always be those who think you haven’t given enough.

The solution is to not try to live up to everyone else’s standards, but to live up to yours. As long as you’ve achieved success honestly and have stayed true to your values, you have nothing to hide or feel guilty about.

I don’t hide the fact that I love fancy cars, or that my beautiful bride and I are looking at houses in an area where Keith Urban and Nicole Kidman might be our new neighbors.

But I also don’t hide the fact that I gave a Jaguar to a single mom I’ve never met (click here if you missed the video), coached 32 speakers in 2008 and brought one of them from dead broke to a six-figure income, and took on five job seekers to personally coach through the end of 2009.

If you earned it, then enjoy it for goodness sake, and leave the guilt for someone that’s gullible enough to fall for it.

 

To Your Success,

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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