Why Success Will Change You

Who doesn’t want to be successful? It’s a question successful people often think about, however, there are some people who do not care for success. Unfortunately these same people do care about your success. They care because, first, success changes people and secondly, they cannot be a part of that change. When you begin to be successful in life, you will attract several types of people; haters, critics, promoters, supporters and copycats. In each of these type of people you will be viewed differently. People who are successful will attract more haters than you thought existed. Haters are the most distorted, confused individuals. They are usually the ones who would say they don’t care about what you do, yet they have a comment or something to say about the things you are doing in your life. They follow every move you make so they can find something bad to say about you; while telling others they don’t care about you. When you don’t care what others are doing in their lives, you won’t know anything that is going on in their lives and you won’t waste your time trying to find out either, yet haters always know what is going on. Haters just can’t stand to see anything good happening for someone else. They are constantly looking for something or someone to hate on. They really have too much time on the hands. They are always online, on blogs and gossip sites to “see” what is going on, yet they “don’t care”, sounds like a confuse person to me. Haters can smell success a mile away and they can’t stand it! There is nothing you can do about a hater, because they have issues within themselves, only a therapist can address. Therefore, as a successfully person it is best to ignore haters, they are simply not worth your time. Beside, most successful people are busy living their lives, and don’t even realize haters exist. Sounds like haters are still in the hole.


With your haters comes the critics. You may attract good critics and bad critics. What I find interesting about critics, is that most never been in your shoes, yet they have something to say. When I hear criticism, I often ask myself, where is that really coming from, it is constructive criticism or criticism based on jealously. So before you outright accept criticism evaluate the “motive” behind it. Some people do not realize that successfully people work hard to get where they are and have what they have. They only concentrate on the results of your success and not the process of how you got there.

Then you’ll have your copycats. Copycats do not really have bad motives towards those who are successful. At some time in our life, we all have been copycats, from the way we dress, to the brand we choose to buy. However, certain copycats try to live off other people’s ideas, and it usually does not work out for them and then they get upset about your success. Copycats don’t realize, that everyone has their own destiny and calling. What may work out for me, may not work out for you. Copycats have to learn to find their own talents and skills and work on that. When things don’t work out for copycats, they begin to get jealous and envious of other people’s success. I would advise copycats to find their own destiny, and there they will find their success.

On a Positive note, as a successful person you will also attract, promoters. Promoters are the people who practice the most successful marketing tip, word of mouth. Good Promoters are a great benefit to have in your circle; many of them don’t stop talking about your progress and success, in fact they thrive on it. They are constantly keeping your atmosphere positive and often always see and say good things about you, even when others are saying negative things. They ignore all the haters and critics. They are like best friends you never had.

Lastly, but not least, you will attract your supporters. Supporters is behind your success, never forget that! True supporters, no matter what they hear negative or positive, they will still support you. They are not wishy washy and do not feed into gossip and lies. Supporters will embrace your change and want to constantly see good things happen for you. They are often inspired, motivated and encouraged by your success.

Each of these type of people will say something about you and will view you differently, positive or negative and each plays a role in your success. Some will say you changed, but you are suppose to change when you become successful. You won’t desire to be the same. You will want better. You will desire better quality of clothing, restaurants, hotels and want the best out of everything. If anyone thought you should have stay the same way, then they didn’t desire you to be successful. If they thought you will want to stay in a motel instead a hotel, they are not ready for success themselves and everything that comes with it. I know some people say that success as made people, snobby, big-headed, and forget where they come from. I truly believe that was in the person hidden character and success as nothing to do with it. I know of some people who behave this way and they don’t own anything. I know people who think they are better than others, while they are living paycheck to paycheck. Instead of seeing success as a bad thing, even when others have something negative to say about your success, embrace it. Embrace it, embrace the positive change that comes with success; especially if you able to be a positive role model in other people’s lives, you are now able to help others less fortune, you are able to provide a better environment for your children and family. Why should you be afraid or downplay your success because other people can’t handle it? Always, remember, not everyone is meant to be included in your success, especially the haters.