But What If I Actually Succeed?

TL Cooper
5 min readMay 29, 2019
A few of the books I read as I addressed my fear of success.

I’ve always been a very determined, ambitious person. Yet, there came a time when I realized that every time I got close to reaching a goal, I’d somehow sabotage it or I’d minimize my accomplishments. I shied away from publicizing my work. I started to play small when I most needed to be seen. I couldn’t quite understand what was happening. At first I thought I feared failure, but I’d feared failure most of my life (more on this next…

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TL Cooper

Author & Poet exploring the strength in vulnerability and the vulnerability in strength…