They Don't Want You To Succeed, Here's What To Do

What happens when you're doing everything right, but somebody with more power decides they don't want you to succeed? Remember Sugar Ray and Quick from Harlem Nights? Richard Pryor and Eddie Murphy gave us one of the funniest movies of 1989, but underneath the comedy was a lesson about business, power, and survival. Sugar Ray built a successful nightclub. Customers were coming in, business was booming, and everything seemed to be going his way. But Bugsy Calhoune wasn't interested in fair competition. Instead of building a better business, he used his connections and influence to put pressure on Sugar Ray. Sound familiar? Sometimes the problem isn't that you're not working hard enough. Sometimes you're dealing with people who benefit from keeping you from getting ahead. And that's when working harder isn't enough. You need a strategy. You need relationships. You need options. And you need to understand who has the power to make or break your opportunities. Because being right doesn't guarantee success, and playing by the rules doesn't mean everybody else will. **Here's my question:** Have you ever dealt with somebody who seemed more interested in stopping your success than achieving their own? Let's talk about it in the comments. This is Toying With Problems, where we examine the systems, expectations, and habits standing between us and our Path, Purpose, and Prosperity. #HarlemNights #EddieMurphy #PowerDynamics #captianprosperity #curtisleonwilliams #curtiswilliams #ToyingWithProblems