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Have you ever accomplished something you weren't so sure you could do?
Success has always been the end goal, but when you achieve it ...
something infuriatingly predictable happens. You start wondering what
more you can do.
Instead of success bringing you happiness, it hands you an increased
hunger to achieve something even bigger. And with that desire also comes
uncertainty, self-doubt, anxiety and stress.
Success, in other words, is kinda wonderful ... but it's also kinda
hell. Welcome to Wonderhell.
Wonderhell is that space in your psyche where the burden of your newly
discovered potential plops down, unpacks its backpack, and asks: Hey,
you! Whatcha got for me?
Living in an ambitious, results-oriented society, we often
mischaracterize the turbulent emotions that surround success, deeming
them a "necessary evil"--a byproduct of one's rise to the top. We tend
to think that we just need to survive these difficult moments, to hang
on by our fingernails and somehow get through these stressful, unwanted
side effects of our success. We torture ourselves with a never-ending
internal dialogue: I can handle this. Can I handle this?
But we are wrong.
Learning to live in this newfound potential can be exciting rather than
exhausting. Emotions like fear, anxiety, and heartbreak are not
collateral damage, slings and arrows to be absorbed and swallowed down,
silenced and pushed aside. Rather, each emotion is a portal that shows
us what more we can do, if instead we recognize that on the other side
of this wonderful hell that we so badly wanted is another and another
and another . . . but only if we choose to accept it.
