Episode 397 — AMMA — Success Debt: The Trap at the Top
The higher you climb, the heavier success can weigh you down.
In this episode of The Game Changing Attorney Podcast, Michael and Jessica Mogill expose the hidden cost of achievement: success debt. It’s the trap that catches high performers when wins pile up faster than the systems, habits, and discipline needed to sustain them. If you’ve ever felt restless, pressured, or like your own achievements are starting to box you in, this conversation will hit close to home.
Here’s what you’ll learn:
- Why success debt builds silently at the top and how to recognize it before it crushes you
- How to avoid coasting on past wins and instead create challenges that keep you sharp
- What it takes to stay competitive without letting complacency or comparison set the pace
If you want to avoid being owned by your own success, this is the episode you cannot afford to miss.
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Show Notes:
Momentum works both ways. “When you’ve got positive momentum, everything clicks. But when nothing is going your way, it can feel like a dark cloud hanging over the team.”
Small wins stack into big ones. “Before you can win the year, you have to win the quarters, the months, the weeks, and the days. Stack those daily wins and momentum will follow.”
Confidence collapses when fundamentals slip. “It’s no different than a field goal kicker. Miss one, maybe two, and before long you don’t even believe you should be on the field.”
Complacency is dangerous. “A business is always growing or dying. There’s no middle ground, no offseason, no time where you can just coast.”
Comparison is a trap. “I knew everything my competitors were doing, and all it did was keep me from innovating. The day I stopped caring about them was the day we started to win.”
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