{"id":138502584,"date":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1970-01-01T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/acccapital.com\/getting-into-a-successful-state-of-mind\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T13:09:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T17:09:15","slug":"getting-into-a-successful-state-of-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acccapital.com\/hi\/getting-into-a-successful-state-of-mind\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting into a Successful State of Mind"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s Friday and I can\u2019t think of a better day to take a more philosophical look at the way we do things and the reasons behind the way we do them. I was perusing Feedly<\/a> this morning and came across an article by Dave Kashen entitled \u201cThe Entrepreneur\u2019s \u201cNot Enough\u201d Trap\u2014And How to Avoid It\u201d. Kashen, who serves as a founder and leadership coach at one of San Francisco\u2019s premier leadership and culture development firms, argues that there needs to be a shift in where inspiration for success comes from. Kashen states that entrepreneurs are driven by \u201cnot enough\u201d syndrome which basically means they strive to succeed in order to satisfy this preconceived notion that they were never equal to their peers. This is common in many areas of life; athletes push themselves in this way.\u00a0 However, unlike in athletics were achieving a time or winning a championship can help satisfy this feeling of lacking, entrepreneurs are building these great companies all the while wearing themselves out and at the end come back around to same feeling of \u201cnot enough\u201d. They aren’t building the companies for self-fulfillment, but rather to impress someone else. He then goes on to argue that we partially build this way out of fear. Human brains are wired to fear for evolutionary purposes. But we don\u2019t have to fear anymore. We have no natural, unconquered predators. We should start working and thinking and building in terms of our contributions to others. Quoting from the article \u2013 \u201cWhen you experience your work as contribution to others, you handle setbacks and obstacles in stride instead of seeing every bump in the road as a potential to expose you as the fraud you believe you are.\u201d So how do you start working to fulfill yourself? Kashen gives these tips: <\/p>\n