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Bleeding edge jeff brown6/7/2023 * * * If you have a dream, a plan, a demon, a potential, or an unshakable goal that excites you and scares you at the same time, Otting offers the Wonderhell Quiz to find a way through it. If we are in Wonderhell, we’re on the right track to live out our potential. Understanding how the rides work reduces our stress and helps us to enjoy the ride. Say goodbye to your past success, and prepare to jump out of that perfectly-functional-but-entirely-automated airplane. If this sounds familiar, it’s time to break the monotony and step into the unknown. Performing the same roles and responsibilities over and over-even as this brings you greater and greater success-leaves you with nothing but emptiness and tedium. You might be tempted to hold on to where you’ve already been, but that will slowly steal your wonder and leave you with nothing but the hell. But the key isn’t just to survive Wonderhell. Anticipate this repeat voyage-and even welcome it!-and you’ll live to tell the tale. If you have a vision (and the stomach for going after it), you get to come back over and over again. “Wonderhell isn’t just a place you visit once. You’re on your way, but there’s one more dimension to the amusement park: Burnout City. Bear in mind: most of the people who are busy sharing opinions wouldn’t have the time to do so if they were just as busy as you, bringing their own goals to fruition.” Who do you need to have on your team? “Got a family member who always worries you’re taking too big a risk? Share some details of your plan when you’ve already got it in place. We turn up the volume on those who believe in us and turn down the volume on those who only see our faults and obstacles. In Doubstville, we learn to create boundaries over who we listen to. Much of the fear and anxiety that comes from all of the external voices. Control what you can control and take the first step. We face the uncertainty, the discomfort, and doubt about our new potential. Once we’ve gotten rid of that internal voice in our head that limits us, we now enter Doubtsville. “The more we observe and absorb information about a potential change, the more we begin to understand how to make that change happen,” and make our own luck. We learn to make our own luck, let go of the things that hold us back, and turn our limitations into invitations. In Impostertown we see the fortune teller and enter the Hall of Mirrors, the Tent of Oddities, and the Haunted House. Many people do, swallowing that dream down into their belly, where it becomes a cancerous lament, festering away disguised as malaise, dissatisfaction, or worse, prudence.” You could lie to yourself about what you want. “Standing on the edge of our incompetence” makes us fearful and feel like an imposter. Who am I to take this next step? Who do I think I am? Otting wisely points out that we are not who we think we are. It’s bigger and bolder, and we enter Impostertown. We step into the Imaginarium, and we can see the new life we want to have. Just when we thought we could rest on our past, we are invited into a future of new opportunities. And every success invites us back to the entrance to take the ride again. and What to Do About It, Otting presents the ride of your life like entering an amusement park-Wonderhell. In Wonderhell: Why Success Doesn’t Feel Like It Should. The wonderful excitement of who you are and the burden (hell) of the realization of who you can become. Wonderhell is that place between who you are and who you are becoming. We’re in what Laura Gassner Otting identifies as Wonderhell. The achievement feels wonderful, but just when we thought we reached to top, we feel the burden of the invitation to take another step into our newfound potential. And each achievement opens yet another door to our potential. SUCCESS is not a destination but a journey. Wonderhell: Why Success Doesn’t Feel Like It Should
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