Evoke Greatness Newsletter

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April 4th, 2023

“Some people are committed to misunderstanding you."

We've probably all been there before. You have someone who just seems like they are opposed to anything you do. People can get caught up in trying to figure out what they did or why they are getting this response from this person. It can be perplexing.

You can get in your own head about this after a while. Or, you can view it from a different lens. As my son likes to say, sounds like a you problem, not a me problem. 🤣

Some people are simply committed to misunderstanding you. When I heard this quote, it exploded in my mind. Like, ok...now I get it.

Sometimes in life, it is better to leave those people to their own thoughts. There is no sense in arguing or trying to reason with them. They have already sealed the deal in their mind AND THAT'S OK. Wish them well and be on your way.

New Book to check out: by Laura Gassner Otting (LGO)🥁🥁

From her new book that hits stands today, April 4th:

"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."

Go out and get a copy right now!!!!

A quote that I've been sitting with this week

Evoke Greatness Podcast: Latest Episode

Laura Gassner Otting: Best Selling Author, Magnetic Speaker and One of the Top Executive Coaches in the World

Laura has had a fascinating career from dropping out of law school and joining Bill Clinton's presidential campaign to then being a presidential appointee as he took the White House. After being unwilling to settle for someone else’s definition of success, she left her role at an executive search firm as their youngest Vice President to start her own wildly successful firm. She is a Washington Post Best Selling Author. Her last book, Limitless, came in second only to Michelle Obama’s book. Her new book Wonderhell drops today, April 4th!! (Go ahead and pause the podcast to go grab a copy)

In this episode she shares:

· Some of the biggest lessons from the evolution of her career.

· What drove her to write the book “Limitless” for the world.

· Her thoughts on why we’ve come to a place, societally, with women exiting senior and executive level positions in record numbers.

· How she came up with the concept for her newest book: Success, in other words, is kinda wonderful ... but it’s also kinda hell. Welcome to “Wonderhell”

· How we can learn to lean into our own imperfection to help us grow

· What happens when we get to new levels in our career and life around the discernment we should have when it comes to the people who are in our life, even if we may have outgrown the relationship.

· The story behind the best advice she ever got, which was “You’re just not that important”.

· Something that others value that she doesn’t.

· What her non-negotiable habits and routines are.

Make sure to go pick up Laura’s latest book, “Wonderhell” everywhere books are sold. Also give her a follow her on LinkedIn and IG.

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