Delusions of Grandeur

This is something I work through with my private high performance clients often.

It’s also something that the typical/average/ normal person doesn’t experience.

So I like to classify this as a champagne problem.

The fact that you’re too good for your own good.

The fact that your standard of excellence far exceeds what’s normal and expected, and that it’s a constant moving target.

The fact that no matter how good you are, it will never be good enough in your mind.

This is the excellence delusion.

Everybody can see how great you are except for you.

Because the level of pressure us high performers put on ourselves to be excellent and the standards we set for ourselves far exceeds what’s humanly possible, which is why we are the ones who do the impossible.

We are truly in a league of our own which means the battle is not with the outside world.

The battle is inside our own worlds.

We compete with no one except ourselves and that’s literally an impossible feat.

Which is why we often times feel lonely even though we have the world at our feet.

We feel less than even when the world is shouting out our greatness.

We feel not enough, even though we are unequivocally more than enough.

And this is the plight of the high performer..

The high achieving over achiever…

The iconic, creative, maverick women.

This is what you don’t share with the others, because they don’t get it.

They don’t understand you.

And they most likely never will.

This is what you’re left alone to try to navigate and deal with, because no one can handle all of your excellence.

No one can fully handle all of who you are.

No one has ever been able to handle all of your truth.

That is, until you met me. 💋