Unworthy of Success? Rewriting the Narrative That Blocks Your Potential

“I feel unworthy of success.”

The words carry weight beyond their brevity.

Feeling unworthy of success is a devastating, imprisoning belief.

When we carry this belief, we’ll stand in the way of our success. We’ll be our own worst enemy.

If, even through this, we’re able to reach our definition of success, we’ll blow it up because we don’t feel worthy of it.

It’s something I struggle with quite a bit.

Pre-prison, I checked all the “standard” metrics of success:

☑️ Professional

☑️ Financial

☑️ Materialistic

I had a double whammy:

I wasn’t living the life I wanted to be living, and I didn’t believe I was worthy of my success.

So, I self-sabotaged in perhaps one of the grandest fashions, defrauding a tech giant and going to federal prison.

I lost what at the time seemed like everything (the wisdom of hindsight informs me this wasn’t true) and chose to rebuild from scratch.

As I’ve rebuilt and reinvented my life, I’ve been fortunate to meet my definitions of success along the way, and I’m grateful.