Some truths cannot be found easily. There’s a good reason why learned people and seekers of knowledge, from ancient mystics and religious leaders to college students these days, have to endure some kind of hardship to acquire knowledge and the wisdom they need to be able to wield it properly.
That’s a lesson life will often deal to people who think they know an awful lot. Adam Jablin, the coach to celebrities, mentor, and author with a mission to change things one person at a time, thought he had it all figured out. There was plenty about him that signified success: his looks, his family, his business, it all screamed success.
The fact that he had a couple of addictions, on the other hand, screamed something different; a lack of wisdom to wield what that success brought to him. Eventually, however, Adam opted out of the model of success he had in front of him, but not before he learned a few lessons the hard way.
Adam was successful without being happy. To most people who spend their days chasing that kind of picture-perfect example of success, that doesn’t make any sense. Yet, it’s something that maybe many successful people have to deal with, the hollow feeling of it all.
Even worse for Adam, his success stopped him from devoting his time to being that guy who helps others make the most out of their lives, which is precisely what he does now. He views success, and what he proposes as an alternative, holds all the explanations those young entrepreneurs looking for a big payday, need.
For Adam, success is the thing people think it is. Money in the bank account. It is winning a competition, writing a book that becomes a bestseller—reaching some goal that, given enough thought, proves to be arbitrary.
Fulfillment, on the other hand, is where it is at, as Adam would say. That’s taking it all a step further and finding a way to live a life with grace, clarity of purpose, and maybe even a mission for the people who are driven.
Adam walked the walk before he talked about it. He had a huge family business that did incredibly well, and he ended up selling it. It might be easy to blame it all on the rehab and his spiritual teachers or whatever influenced him, but his reasons for doing it were much deeper.
Right now, he’s an author of a #1 best-selling book that’s called LOTSAHOLIC: From A Sick to Sober Superman. He has speaking engagements. He has a coaching program that helps people. Most importantly, however, he does it all while being 100% Adam Jablin, not a mask he puts on to appear attentive and super healthy, and not at all on drugs.
This is Adam Jablin without all of these things, a person who’s likely to help people get up if he sees them fall, share his story, talk about his mentor and his faith, and offer up a word or two of encouragement. Best of all, he’ll do that and be much more awesome than he ever was when he was chasing success.
If you want to keep up with Adam Jablin, you can follow him on Instagram at @adamjablin.