Have you ever met an individual that is so wound up about what others will think of them that they can get no further in life due to the fact that they feel inadequate? Some people are so paralyzed by these feelings that any chance of success is diminished by their fears. Even people as far back as Biblical times have felt that they did not have the necessary qualities to feel adequate.

How many times have we heard on television programs that such feelings are ordinarily the remnants of something that has happened to a person early on in life? Things such as rejection or humiliation, abuse or neglect, or some type of abandonment – either by an elder’s choice or chance can help build the negative self-destruction that follows. Due to this ingrained negativity, the damaging retention tends to be stored deep in the subconscious mind and can result in a person’s feelings of inadequacy and can remain there for years eating away at the soul.

So if you are an individual that looks around and considers others to be better than you while underestimating your own abilities and skills, you most likely have a tendency to display your lack of self-confidence thus killing any possible means of success. Allowing the influence of outsiders in will not allow you to be open for change, for new ideas and attitudes or for any successes that you are capable intellectually of achieving but are limited due to your mental state of mind.

Individuals that feel inadequate can potentially increase their decline by instilling a sense of paranoia into their minds as well. If these individuals look around themselves and truly believe that others are talking about them, they may tend to stay away from people in general. It also works that people who feel inferior feel inadequate and people who are inadequate feel inferior. Do not do this to yourself.

Are there ways around this power struggle of the mind? Of course there are. You can help yourself by being open to building your own self-confidence by ridding yourself of your inferiority complex. But will you allow this openness to encircle you so that you can help yourself?

While some feel inadequate from the get-go, others tend to ward others away due to their level of success; a reverse inadequacy of sorts. Success can do strange things to people – don’t let this be you.

When you work long, hard hours climbing that mountain to be successful, you tend to ward people off from you, but once you make it and are ready to reap what you have sewn, you may do just that. Since you pushed everyone away, you may not have anyone left to share your successes with so you begin to feel inadequate.

In a twist of fate, you may have had nothing to do with people turning away from you after you reached your peak, it could possibly be the fact that they are jealous of your success. In no way should their feeling of inadequacy affect the way you feel about the great job that you did; you should not become a part of their ‘feel sorry for myself’ clique for this will only lead to your demise.

The way to handle this is to keep the belief about yourself but not overly stress the situation and push others away. It is just in human nature that some people will drift away from simply because you have achieved something that they never will because they don’t follow your same logic.

No matter how feelings of inadequacy are achieved, they will not lead to anything but negativity. This negativity leads to destruction of success. This will take you nowhere. It is best to discover what has tended to lead you awry and change those factors of your life. Feelings of inadequacy will only lead you down the wrong path; the path that will kill your success.