5 Things You Need to Delete to Acquire Startup Success (Even if You’ve Already Been Successful)

There’s a six-word phrase I’ve probably repeated more than any other statement in my life, to which I often receive knee-jerk pushback. I’m sure I’ve likely uttered this phrase <a href="https://index.medium.com/how-to-get-and-leave-a-6-figure-job-in-your-early-20s-from-an-ex-wall-street-banker-turned-ceo-c72e6f62f3ea" rel="noopener">at the very beginning of my career</a>, in the “<a href="https://entrepreneurshandbook.co/you-may-be-a-lost-entrepreneur-and-not-even-know-it-3d1e3dfaf62" rel="noopener" target="_blank">lost” times in between ventures</a> and <a href="https://entrepreneurshandbook.co/my-startup-failed-and-its-all-my-fault-a35ee6265df9" rel="noopener" target="_blank">failures</a>, as would be expected. Ironically, however, I know I’ve stated this phrase on a weekly basis even at the height of my entrepreneurial and financial “success”, when I was first making more in a month than most people make in a year. The phrase: “<a href="https://entrepreneurshandbook.co/the-1-question-that-should-guide-your-entrepreneurial-journey-c77e434d91a7" rel="noopener" target="_blank">I just want to be successful</a>.” The instant (biased and expected) feedback from my closest friends and family was “You already are!”. While we all have different definitions of success, I certainly hadn’t (and arguably still haven’t) reached mine, or else I wouldn’t be so voraciously seeking something more — or something else. Before you click away assuming I’m going to get all preachy and spiritual, telling you that the real definition of success has nothing to do with careers, business, or income, have no fear; I would never. Instead, I’m going to double down on why my feelings of underachievement were so valid — and <a href="https://entrepreneurshandbook.co/the-1-mistake-attracting-soon-to-fail-entrepreneurs-840ab8fe4029" rel="noopener" target="_blank">why you may not be on the path to perpetual success at all</a>. <a href="https://entrepreneurshandbook.co/5-things-you-need-to-delete-to-acquire-startup-success-even-if-youve-already-been-successful-7dac9eaf7504">Click Here</a>