The inverted pyramid

Wishing for you a happy Monday and a happy holiday if you are celebrating  on where you are.

I have been given a new formula on how to achieve success and it is the inverted pyramid approach. All my life I have been trying to find a proven, workable and universal approach to achieving success. I grew up with the old adage “If at first you don’t succeed try and try and try again”. This  has worked but when success finally comes I am exhausted and drained and there is the absence of that feeling of euphoria which I so much desire.

The inverted pyramid approach to succeeding requires that I present my best or the peak at first and then gradually spread out. The upright pyramid requires gradually elimination and narrowing until I reach the peak. The peak is the representative of the high point or at best the very top.

Success I am told is very hard to achieve and I am very unlikely to succeed but I should follow the status quo because their success is based on this approach. Hopefully a successful person will see the value of my efforts and utilize it.  I will get no recognition or credit for my efforts but at least I will have the satisfaction of knowing that it was my work.

The inverted pyramid approach requires building without a foundation or being top heavy with a narrow bottom. It requires that I give my best initially and then follow up with crap. The upright pyramid allows for a tower or a spire to be built on the peak or at best continued growth.

In all honestly I do not like the inverted pyramid approach to success because of my background. I grew up in Jamaica which is an island located in the Caribbean Sea. There are many things to which we are exposed two of which are earthquakes and hurricanes. Buildings are constructed to withstand magnitude 7.0 and above  earthquakes and to withstand 120 mph and more winds. My efforts towards success must be able to withstand what life throws at my efforts in a similar way that the buildings are expected to stand the magnitude of an earthquake or the winds of an hurricane.

I am guaranteed not to succeed anyway and if I present my best initially then I have nothing to aspire toward afterwards. This is a tough life in which I must follow advice of the experts and ignore my gut feelings.