What if your ladder of success is leaning against the wrong wall?

Chuck Frey
4 min readApr 6, 2024
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Here’s a powerful but little-known strategy to help you adjust the course of your life

You’ve been climbing the ladder of success for several decades.

Your career has been punctuated with numerous promotions and increases in responsibility.

You’re highly regarded within your organization and the industry for your extraordinary level of passion, vision and innovation.

Because you’re indispensable, you routinely work 60–80 hours a week and travel frequently for your job. When you’re not at work, you’re thinking about it.

Bur trouble is brewing

But this relentless focus on work is starting to have a negative impact on your irreplaceable family relationships.

You feel like your life partner has become emotionally distant.

Or is it you?

Your children are growing up so fast, but you feel like you hardly know them. When they let their guard down, you sense a low-grade, simmering resentment from them.

While you’ve been preoccupied with cultivating an enviable career, you’ve been missing out on most of their special occasions. You’re rarely…

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Chuck Frey

Thought leader in mind mapping, visual thinking and creativity for 15+ years. Relentless explorer, learner and dot-collector. I help you elevate your thinking.