The Ladder Of Success

How to climb the ladder of success is the topic of this mini podcast from John Morgan.

Grasshopper Notes are the writings from America's Best Known Hypnotherapist John Morgan. His podcasts contain his most responded to essays and blog posts from the past two decades. 

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Transcript

The Ladder Of Success

My friend John Leslie has a saying that goes something like this: “The reason it’s so difficult to climb the ladder of success is because it’s so crowded at the bottom rung.”

If you think about it more than a minute, you'll find the culprit that keeps us on the rung we currently occupy. It's our thinking. We've set up some sort of competition with the universal gods of possibility that we know what’s possible for us. That's not only a limitation of our conscious mind, but hubris at the highest level.

What I remember from my construction days is that ladders can also be used to go down below decks as well. It seems we have it filed in our minds that ladders are only used to climb upward. That's one of the short-sighted mental limitations that we own.

We forever seem to start at the bottom rung at ground level and we get into a pushing and shoving match not only with others but with ourselves. No wonder we stay in place.

We've convinced ourselves that we know the way up the ladder but the evidence proves our way's not working. I like to call it “a better way that doesn’t work.” We come up with the same tired solutions that have never worked before in the hopes that if we “try” harder, they'll be successful this time.

Climbing downward below decks is the first step to making our way back upward. There is no crowd at these depths. It’s from this deep, quiet place that you muster the energy and the strategy to climb higher.

When you use the ladder in this fashion, you have momentum built up when you reach ground level which propels you past the crowd elbowing for room on the bottom rung.

If you’re convinced that fighting for space is the way to go, you will be held down by the aura of mediocrity that surrounds you.

The key is to go in a different direction first – downward, deeper. This visit to your depths will make your climb more fluid and keep you from getting sandwiched in with the people who have a better way that doesn’t work.

All the best,

John