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Feeling Disheartened
It’s a common misconception that friends will always be there to cheer you on when you achieve success. However, as many entrepreneurs have experienced, this isn’t always the case. The feeling of loneliness and disappointment when your closest friends don’t celebrate your victories can be incredibly disheartening.
Why It Matters
When you’ve worked tirelessly to build your business from the ground up, overcoming obstacles and setbacks along the way, sharing your success with friends should be a joyous occasion. Their support and recognition can make all the difference in how you perceive your achievements and can provide a sense of validation for your hard work.
Practical Solutions
While it’s certainly challenging to navigate these emotions, it’s essential to focus on practical solutions to address the situation and move forward positively.
- Communicate Your Feelings: Express your thoughts and emotions to your friends in a calm and honest manner. They may not realize the impact of their actions and could be genuinely unaware of how their silence is affecting you.
- Seek Support Elsewhere: Surround yourself with a community of like-minded individuals who understand the struggles and successes of entrepreneurship. This can provide a sense of camaraderie and celebration for your achievements.
- Celebrate Yourself: Take the time to celebrate your successes and milestones independently. Treat yourself to something special or indulge in a self-care routine to acknowledge your hard work and perseverance.
- Reassess Relationships: Evaluate the dynamics of your friendships and consider whether they align with your values and ambitions. It’s essential to surround yourself with individuals who uplift and support you during both challenging and triumphant times.
Embracing Growth
Ultimately, facing challenges within friendships can be a transformative experience that allows for personal growth and self-reflection. By remaining resilient and seeking support in alternative ways, you can navigate this obstacle with grace and emerge stronger on the other side.
Remember, your success is worthy of celebration, whether it comes from friends or from within. Embrace this exciting chapter in your entrepreneurial journey and continue to strive for greatness, no matter who is cheering you on.
Makes me so happy for you!
Just means you deserve better friends
Do you perhaps project your insecurities on others? Just because they didn’t reach out doesn’t mean that they’re not incredibly excited and happy for you!
I was once featured on a big podcast and did not hear anything from my close friends and family (while about 5 people I went to highschool with reached out immediately). It turned out that my family members were sending the podcast episode to all of their friends and other family members and were incredibly proud but too „afraid“ to mention to me that they know about the podcast because I did not tell them about it.
Welcome to the club. This is sadly one of the truths about building something. Many people see disconnect the success with the actual work you do and get jealous.
Congrats!!!
Have no expectations. I’ve been there
If people applaud you then that’s good, It is also fine if they don’t. you don’t lose a thing.
Just be happy with yourself.
Congratulations my friend! You have found a way to bring value to this world AND be compensated for it, all on your own terms. You should be very proud of yourself.
I advised a couple how to scrape grabby, greedy friends off of their wallet. Consider yourself lucky.
You’re doing well man, why do you need their validation?
Do they know? Sure your videos have views but that doesn’t mean they know how well your business is doing. Did you tell them?
Nobody ever wants for you to be doing better than them, other than close family..
it’s just part of being an adult. If you want to celebrate something, you have to take the lead and let everybody know What, when and whereyou wanna celebrate.
ya i have faced this as well. especially if you come from a background where everybody else is not in business, they sometimes will look at your success and get jealous or rather not be able to connect with you anymore.
treat them kindly and don’t alienate yourself. they need some time to get around to it.
People laugh when you’re working on it, then jealous haters when you have success.
Read think and grow rich by Napoleon Hill. Friends and family have always been and will always be against you when you stray away from a “job” and become self employed.
I can empathize with your situation. The way I personally see it is I can only control my actions and not those of others around me. I’m happy celebrating the success of those around me, but I don’t need theirs, but getting it would just add to my own happiness.
Congrats on the success and best of luck for the future!
Congratulations mate! 🙂
Congratulations. I do feel like you’re leaning on your friends for emotional validation, as if they owe you a congratulations, which I don’t really think is healthy. Either sweep it under the rug or get better friends.
lol get ready for them to not even ask how you’re doing. Really, get ready to have like 2 friends.
Congratulations on your success, your work is paying off! Happiness and self-fulfillment come from within. If you rely on external sources (such as your friends) for validation or self-esteem you will never find fulfillment.
The proverb says : friend in need is a friend indeed
In this life, it’s so hard to find a good friend from 1000 people, and be sure no one one celebrates your success same as your parents and your family if exists.
I think this is a good experience for you to filter your friends list, keep in mind that the most important is not the number of friends but the quality of them.
Welcome to the real world.
Entrepreneurs usually need to build community with other entrepreneurs because most people don’t understand and can’t relate to the experience of starting a business.
People that are a little insecure will feel intimidated by your success. Even if they know you deserve it. You can’t necessarily blame them for that because it makes them self-reflect on themselves and they immediately feel bad.
Being happy for other people when you’re doing poorly can be tough..
But if this is the general theme of your relationship with them then maybe they are just worthless as friends. I’ve dealt with this my entire life.
I have two close friends left that genuinely give a shit about me and really do root for me. Instead of hating they ask for advice or ways they can implant my strategies into what they are doing.
I’ve had to weed out 90% of the bad friends in my life and I don’t feel like I’m missing anything. True friends are hard to come by..
I think there’s probably three reasons I see – one is jealousy, one is lack of interest, and one is thinking it’s not actually that hard. May be a combination of multiple of these. Sometimes you just need to find people who can understand what your going through and therefore celebrate your success
Jealousy is a motherfucker.
I don’t even think this is just a business related thing tbh a lot of my friends are so wrapped up in their own lives I’m always the guy reaching out. Think it’s a personality trait.
Congrats on your success though man, you’re killing it.
You expect everyone to suck you off now that you’re doing well so you can feel validated? Grow up dude, people have their own lives. Just because they’re not stroking your ego doesn’t mean they’re not happy for you.
Congrats! It’s definitely upsetting to see that your friends aren’t congratulating you on it, I always make sure to drop a message when I see friends doing big things.
I will say this, real friends would be absolutely hyped about your successes. Don’t take it to heart though, maybe one day you’ll find yourselves surrounded by people who are supportive of what you do and recognize all the work you’ve put in.
Rule #1, no one will care about your success as much as yourself.
You doing it for you or for them?
I’m 14 years in to my small business. No one, and I mean no one ever tells me I’m doing a good job at anything.
If you want attaboys go work for someone.
Go to them, make time for them and show them that even when you had success it didn’t change you and they are still important to you. They might be expecting this. Don’t wait for them and play this game. If you approach them and they show you any envy, that would be sad. But don’t make conclusions already now because that is also conceited from your side.
Alex hormozi does say something profound on this subject. I’m gonna paraphrase as I don’t know the quote by heart.
“The people rooting for you and the people hoping you fail are often the same people, only separated by different times in your life”
“People want you todo well, but not better than them. Because it makes them feel better about their life and the opportunities not taken”
The faster you realize no one really cares and those who do will mostly be envious of your success, the less disappointed you will be.
Alex Hormozi talks about this.
Most of your friends don’t want you to be successful because it makes them realise how shit they are doing. It’s their own insecurity.