[Success a curse]

Success, the quickest route to isolation, the force that attracts scum, the easy blinder of the weak, and the worst attention bringer to enemies. Unlike power, it gives you no peace as everybody wants themselves attached to you. What is dangerous as a combination to it is kindheartedness, which is the shortest route to your fall. Success is not stable, is not a sustainable phenomena sans power.

If you want success, you ought to garner power so you can attain the state of deity. There's no sleep with success as there's always this and that about relevancy, being the first, maintaining your position, retaining consumerbase, knowing what's latest in business and news locally, nationally and internationally, learning something new all the time, who to trust and who cut, forever analyzing what's being said, and guarding against and fighting entrants with all you can, etc, to remain in the game. Success is tiring, those of you wanting in on the piece of action should know that. If you want to venture into business with thoughts of easy money just forget 'cause it seems easy in the beginning and all changes the day you employ someone, especially one close to you that you'll come back sobbing.

With success comes too much backstabbings. In business there's no permanent friend and no permanent enemy and the irony of it is that even your enemy needs you in longer so they keep pushing and benchmarking through you in their quest for competitiveness. A good enemy in business is an arch rival not a crusher. Success many a times makes you a target of invisible forces that you have to know and infiltrate in order to fight back. It's a constant uphill struggle.

A lot got in as softies but today are toughies by force. One thing I've learned over the years about business is that it carves you no matter how rigid you may want to remain, but circumstances won't stop challenging your resistance until you give in to it. From outside everyone wish they were you, and should they only get a taste of what you feel, they won't return.

In conclusion: it is always easier to manage it if with a partner that got your back 101%, not with 10 partners who'll give you 15s and 30s of their support and 60 to 80% be fighting you on almost every move and decision you take. The biggest challenge about success is growth. If you failed to develop your entity's growth plan after your idea plan and company policy, you're doomed. Success is planned and controlled via certain specific channels that are modeled. Don't be somehow lucky, no,,,,work on your business from outside but spacing it in. SUCCESS, good a feeling as it may, still but a curse...dp