The bane of an Achiever personality is that good is never good enough, and great never comes soon enough. It’s a nightmare really. The concept of gratitude, and sitting in the place of small and big achievements, soaking in the praise and patting myself in the back has been foreign for most of my life, and i’m only just learning it. Think about it, Rest is a function of gratitude. It’s very hard to rest if you don’t believe you deserve it, or you have earned it. Achievers consider rest to be Anathema. It takes extreme fatigue, medical conditions, or (in the case of one super achiever I know) the risk of losing treasured relationships life a wife, children etc for them to agree to slow down and rest. And because Humans are wired with a Herd mentality, we surround ourselves with people like us. So if everyone around me is an achiever, hitting milestone after milestone, then the wisdom to know that Rest is not only doctrinal, but also mission critical will not show up on my path. And so I keep going, until I can’t anymore.
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