High achievers often chase external goals like CEO titles or big salaries without asking why those goals matter to them. Once they reach the top, that external validation disappears, leaving them stuck and empty. The fix: learn to internalize your own values and create meaning beyond status.
And a lot of people struggle for a really long time like a lot of my clients. And when you get into these high profile positions or professions where you've a lot of them, they've inherited these values about what it would mean to be a CEO, to start a small business, to become a doctor, an accountant. And they never internalized why it's valuable for them, why they want it. They inherited getting good grades as a value for school and getting into the right colleges, et cetera. So a lot of these come from your families, from your backgrounds, your upbringing or just maybe pursuit of money. And it becomes super critical at the higher stages of life when you're no longer able to rely on others to provide external validations for the choices that you're making. Add the values. There's nowhere else to go because you've rise, you've already risen to the top and now it's coming upon you to learn the skills on how to add value.
