Impostortown: Embrace Your Ambition
Success doesn’t make things easier, it makes things harder. Embrace the potential it reveals to you.
Rank the following five thoughts from most relevant (first place) to least relevant (fifth place) to you.
I think that I might be made for more and suspect that I can live a bigger life than I currently live.
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The dreams I have are going to take some luck to achieve but I don’t know that I am inherently lucky.
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I often feel like an impostor and am often afraid that people will think I don’t belong.
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I want to be special, but I don’t know if I have the confidence to be different.
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I am a people pleaser and often put other people’s ideas of what is right for me ahead of my own.
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Doubtsville: Renegotiate Your Response
Wonderhell is an invitation, not a limitation. Renegotiate your relationship with these mixed emotions.
Rank the following five thoughts from most relevant (first place) to least relevant (fifth place) to you.
I often feel a lack of control, which leads me to worry that I don’t know what I’m doing and will mess up.
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I am often making it up as I go along, and feel nervous that I don’t have the safety nets I’ve had in the past to catch me if I fall.
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Everyone has opinions about who I should be and how I should be and what I should be doing, and sometimes it is hard to figure it out for myself.
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I sometimes worry that people in my life won’t like me when I am the
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who I really want to be, especially if I become more successful.
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I am not surrounded by enough people who bring out my best and refuse to let me settle for mediocrity.
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Burnout City: Do it all over again
Understand that success is a cyclical journey. Expect it, plan for it, welcome it.
Rank the following five thoughts from most relevant (first place) to least relevant (fifth place) to you.
I caught the “bigger, better, faster, more” bug, and it has been harder on me and my loved ones, and now I wonder if I should slow down.
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It’s not that I am too busy, it’s that I am too busy doing stuff that doesn’t matter to me and I need to learn to say no.
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Sometimes my perfectionist tendencies stop me from achieving everything I want or even enjoying the process.
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Despite every bit of planning, effort, and work, I am in crisis and fear that failure is on the horizon.
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I have hit a plateau in parts of my life where I am no longer excited and incentivized to bring my best every day.
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